Interesting. There's also the way lions have been associated with royalty and nobility; Richard the Lionheart, etc. We've romanticized them while wolves are often used to represent someone sneaky and underhanded.

Ohhhhh very good point. Then it asks more questions about what cultural stuff Kipling was working through Was that passed to Normans from … Rome? Muslim Spain?

I don't remember the source now, but in my initial forays I found some stuff talking about how wolves were often demonized after sheep were introduced to a given culture. And I know in English language materials a lot of it comes after wolves are mostly exterminated in the British Isles.