To fail to notice the similarity in some human behavior and that of other
animals is both naive, foolish, and possibly even dangerous. Hatred for
your own species may give you a self-satisfied glow of superiority but it's
not particularly useful.

The simple fact of the matter is that humans are animals.  It is no more
"anthropomorphizing" to notice similarity in behavior in the human animal
with the wolf animal than to notice a similarity between certain ape
behaviors and and certain lion behaviors.

The human animal is NOT "hell-bent on global self destruction."  The human
animal is behaving -exactly- like any other predator would if it became
sapient and dominant over all other species.  The only question will be
whether the human animal is wise enough to realize the problems caused by
his animal nature, and try to either rise above it or creatively channel it
in constructive directions.

Do you honestly believe that if wolves became sapient and built a
technological civilization, with it would come a deep enlightenment that
would prevent them from crimes and destructive behaviors as individuals and
as a species? Or are you suggesting that sapience itself is the problem?