Personally, I don't care what happens to wolves because they're a violent species. Similar to the Bear hunt that occurred not too long ago, these are guys who will maul you to death if you get on their bad side. The less we come across, the better.
Spoken like a true idiot. Wolves are apex predators who tend to keep the populations of stuff like deer in check. More people are killed by deer every year than have been killed by wolves over the past 5000 or so years... Healthy wolves have a tendency to run from humans, because they're smart enough to know that we're little more than psychotic mutant primates. They wouldn't attack you, unless you're stupid enough to bring it upon yourself. Also: Dogs are nothing more than mutant wolves. They aren't even classified as a separate species anymore. While the idiot Europeans decided to wage war on them, my ancestors were smart enough to know how to coexist with them. Further back in history, the caveman seems to have learned such things as teamwork, social structure, and hunting techniques from wolves, most of which we still value and carry on...
For bears, it tends to come down to habitat encroachment and bears becoming habitualized to human presence. They're a large, carnivorous species and we're made out of meat and perty much defenseless unless we have a weapon. Humans are perty much meant to be bear food, as far as nature is concerned. So, the general rule is: "Don't go messing around in bear country, you moron!"... It's kinda like griping about lions when someone gets eaten by one. They should've stayed out of the way of the more powerful creature. Humans suffer from a superiority complex.
Humans have a brain and common sense, mammals don't. They just go by instinct and continue their work. Us humans know killing or stealing is against the law, which prevents most people from doing so you know-it-all.
See also the above "idiot" statement. Your claims can be disproven by hard science. There are a great many studies into animal intelligence.
Going back to wolves: They use mathematics and strategy in the hunt, and have a rather complex social structure. Some scientists believe they have a similar level of intelligence as humans. It's simply a differently focused intelligence, what with them being quadrupedal and predatory in nature. Did you know that often times, the pack forbids mating by those under the age of 3 (which translates into 21 if you use the typified "dog years" scale). They've been observed mourning the loss of other pack members. And the pack omega is often tasked with figuring out means of revealing tension within the pack by essentially acting as the lowest one on the social rung, despite them often actually becoming tougher than the alpha pair. If the omega is of the same sex as an alpha who dies, the remaining alpha will usually choose them over the others to take that alpha's place, because they understand the strength of the omega in question. Also, they tend to know how to act upon their more violent behaviors without actually hurting one another. They may appear to fight quite roughly, but rarely actually draw blood when doing so.
Some scientist also believe that the coyote is even more intelligent than the wolf, making them more intelligent than us. Which would make sense, seeing as how coyotes are one of the few species that manage to thrive in the presence of humans, despite even more extensive attempts at control measures than what's been used on wolves. Female coyotes are capable of adjusting their own fertility, based on how much food they expect to be available when the pups are born. They've been observed removing fleas by going swimming while holding a bit of their own fur in their mouth (the fleas migrate to the held fur, which is then let go to float downstream). A mated pair will form such a bond that if one is stuck in a trap, the other will bring them food and water (they go swimming and come back dripping wet, so their mate can get the water from their fur). They're also known to team up with badgers to hunt prairie dogs. The badger and coyote essentially take turns scaring the prairie dogs to eachother. The coyote gets the ones that come above ground and the badger gets the ones the go underground. Often, when hunting, they also employ their howls' echos to make it appear that there are more of them than there are, and that the prey is surrounded (when in fact, they're just being chased).
Domesticated dogs aren't exactly slouches, either. They can be trained to do perty much anything they're physically capable of achieving. Of course, breed also factors into that. Some are more stubborn than others, and just don't see the point in bothering to learn what you're trying to teach them, if you try to do the whole "obedience training" thing.
Other animals take the "tool use" route. Even birds are in on that. Some have figured out that cars can crush open nuts for them. Others have enough reasoning skills to be able to do stuff like fashioning hooks from wire to get at foodstuffs in otherwise inaccessible places.
As to humans: We're not as "superior" as we like to think we are. Among other things wrong with your statement: There's an awful lot of theft and murder still going on every second, even though they're against the law. See also the attempted genocide of the Native Americans (and the general theft of the country from them), the witch/werewolf/vampire hunts throughout history, and the Holocaust. Your statement is laughable at best... Stuff being against the law only really affects those who obey the law...
