Wolf (Canis lupus)

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Here is a translation of Russian text posted kindly by @AlexE showing that sometimes wolves could be killed by adult male boar during the hunt. For first time I read from more serious documentary source that such a event could really occurred. Before I have heard such a stories only by my grand father back in Europe... The text bellow describes Kazahstan (Central Asia):
http://portaleco.ru/kaban-ekologija-i-hozjajstvennoe-znachenie/gibel-kabanov-ot-vragov.html

"Sometimes attack of adult male boar on wolves ends with the dead of the predators especially if this occurs in conditions not allowing to wolves to jump aside from his canine teeth. For example at 15 January 1945 in the valley of Ili river 4 wolves attacked adult male feeding next to dense bushes. One of the predators died instantly. The boar cut off his abdomen and chest. Survived beasts ran away. 22 December 1946 in the same aria wolf pack of 9 attacked adult male feeding on small meadow among canes. At the place of attack we found a dead sub-adult male wolf with big wound in the groin aria. Checking the traces in the snow we concluded that the boar after killing the wolf escaped among the cane. January 1947 in the Geoununkt region we found a dead wolf killed by boar. The boar was attacked by 2 wolves.

After interviewing local hunters in the aria of Ili and Alakull mountains it got clear that almost everybody of them during his career of boar hunting has ran into 1 to 3cases of wolves killed by boars. Large males almost doesn't afraid of wolves and cross a fresh wolf traces, however females with cubs rush aside and run away."

Such an accidents could be explained only by the fact that the wolves were extremely hungry and desperate because normally predators don't risk their lives during the hunt.

Here is copy of video showing boar-wolves interraction originally posted by @AlexE in boar thread. I am not able to say in what European country that happened:

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