A number of scientific papers recently have examined different ways to analyse the complex relationship between wolf distribution and population size and livestock depredation. Khorozyan and Heurich (2022) found that in Germany, depredation went up with spread of the wolf to new areas and number of livestock but did not increase with increasing number of wolves in a colonised area. Kiffner et al (2022) analyse long-term patterns of livestock depredation by wolves in Brandenburg to draw out temporal patterns as well as differences with time in the type and number of livestock attacked. Mayer et al (2022) examined depredation incidents across the German-Danish border areas finding that attacks on sheep were most common where there was a lack of wild prey and that protection measures could reduce attacks but were relatively expensive as a reaction to rare, dispersing individuals. Gervasi et al (2021) found that the number of sheep depredated increased with wolf distribution but was lower in areas where large carnivore presence was continuous. Singer et al (in preprint) analysed depredation incidents measured to the individual case level over three years and found that while incidents went up with the return of the wolf, they tended to reduce with time in following years.