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Too, an environmental change is the first cause, and if why the natural enemy of a deer and the Japanese wolf exterminated 1905 at the end is investigated more thoroughly, it is likely to become the cause that man is first. It is said that the Japanese who is an agricultural people also had the time when the Japanese wolf was once worshipped with "Ogami." It seems that it was rather welcomed from the farmhouse as a natural enemy of the deer and wild boar which eat away agricultural products. However, civilization progresses after that and wild herbivores, such as a deer which is the food of a Japanese wolf, decrease in number, Moreover, it is although it is said that the place in which the Japanese wolf itself lives was followed, and the Japanese wolf did not attack people before, If the animals of wildness used as food decrease in number, it will become food shortage, and man also came to be attacked. Moreover, it is said that the incident in which people are attacked by the Japanese wolf concerning rabies occurs frequently at the Edo period, and it is said that it became the cause for man to begin extermination to a Japanese wolf. After that, a Japanese wolf continues reducing a member quickly and, finally one animal found in Yamanaka in Nara [ here ] Prefecture in 1905 is not yet discovered, It seems that it has been exterminated. |