The wolves need other wolves to reproduce, and they must eat sheep to survive. The sheep need other sheep to reproduce, and in order to survive, they need to eat grass and to avoid being eaten by wolves.

If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen: a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath—a wolf.

He sends them as sheep among wolves, which brings to mind the messianic time envisioned at Isaiah 11:6, which says that the ‘wolf shall dwell with the lamb’. Referring to them as sheep also highlights the danger they will face in their mission.

The USDA found that wolves killed 3,879 cattle (2015) and sheep (2014) from an inventory of 8.7 million cattle and sheep.

Unlike humans, wolves do not kill for sport. Wolves and all other predators kill for sustenance and survival. Sometimes carcasses are found that are only partially consumed, leading to the assumption that the kill was abandoned and wasted.

Usually the hippo. The hippo has all of the physical advantages over a tiger, as tigers usually hunt alone and may weigh 500 pounds, as compared to the hippo weighing 4,000 pounds. The tiger might be able to scratch the hippo up some, but it’s not likely to manage to do much damage.

The hedgehog (Erinaceidae), the mongoose (Herpestidae), the honey badger (Mellivora capensis), the opossum, and a few other birds that feed on snakes, are known to be immune to a dose of snake venom.

ANSWER: There are two reasons why snakes don’t die from their own venom. The first is that snake venom is toxic only when it gets inside the blood system. These cells can protect the snake only from small amounts of venom, though, so snakes can get very sick or die if they are bitten by another venomous snake.