- This applies to the movie version. The novel made it clear that while the Wolfen are formidable, they are not invulnerable, and humans are still a potentially highly dangerous enemy, thus forcing the beasts to hide, and hunt the society's undesirables. The movie, on the other hand, depicts the Wolfen as unstoppable, and higher on the food chain than humans. So why do they hide? Why don't they just openly roam the streets, eating people left and right?
- Maybe because people wouldn't stay in the cities where the Wolfen are adapted to live, if they knew that monster wolves hang around there eating them? Predators generally don't go around slaughtering everything that comes near the local water hole.
- They're not wholly invulnerable and are vastly outnumbered by humanity whose technology and learning grows ever more powerful by the day. Hence why they need to stop the project threatening their refuge in the first place and why they flee when police reinforcements arrive and open fire on them in the penultimate scene.
- Why were the wolfen such picky eaters? Not consuming infectious flesh might be understandable, but cancerous tissue or a malformed heart aren't contagious or toxic. Even if such tissues smelled a little different, they wouldn't smell dangerous.
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