After reading this, a wolf attack doesn't seem as unlikely as I previously thought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attacks_on_humans#Non-rabid
Unprovoked wolf attacks motivated by hunger are categorized as "predatory". In some such cases, a cautious wolf may launch "investigative" or "exploratory" attacks to test the victim for suitability as prey. As with defensive attacks, such attacks are not always pressed, as the animal may break off the attack or be convinced to look elsewhere for its next meal.[14] In contrast, during "determined" predatory attacks, the victims may be repeatedly bitten on the head and face and dragged off and consumed, sometimes as far away as 1-2.5 km from the attack site, unless the wolf or wolves are driven off.[14][15] Experts in India use the term "child lifting" to describe predatory attacks in which the animal silently enters a hut while everyone is sleeping, picks up a child, often with a silencing bite to the mouth and nose, and carries a child off by the head.[15] Such attacks typically occur in local clusters, and generally do not stop until the wolves involved are eliminated.[14]
Predatory attacks can occur at any time of the year, with a peak in the JuneAugust period, when the chances of people entering forested areas (for livestock grazing or berry and mushroom picking) increase,[18][13]
A worldwide 2002 study by the Norwegian Institute of Nature Research showed that 90% of victims of predatory attacks were children under the age of 18, especially under the age of 10. In the rare cases where adults were killed, the victims were almost always women. This is consistent with wolf hunting strategies, wherein the weakest and most vulnerable categories of prey are targeted.[13] Aside from their physical inferiority, children were historically more vulnerable to wolves as they were more likely to enter forests unattended to pick berries and mushrooms, as well as tend and watch over cattle and sheep on pastures.[18][20][21] While these practices have largely died out in Europe, they are still the case in India, where numerous attacks have been recorded in recent decades.[20] Further reason for the vulnerability of children is the fact that some may mistake wolves for dogs and thus approach them.[21]
There were no written records of wolf attacks on humans prior to the European colonization of the Americas, though the oral history of some Indigenous American tribes confirms that wolves occasionally did kill humans. Tribes living in woodlands feared wolves more than their tundra-dwelling counterparts, as they could encounter wolves suddenly and at close quarters.[33]
