Ken is not a shrinking violet, he is only a growing child with a lot to learn. How would he survive? He then has to deal with the fellow beasts in order to defeat them in a flash.
Later on, a pack of wild furry strangers found Ken and took him as their own, due to the fact that the wolf parents have fraternal twin cubs - named Popo and Chichi - who are nearly starving to death. He has to be fostered by the African golden wolves led by the intimidating Gwandoya and his mate Faraji. Boss would be his estranged grandfather figure as well.
Earlier on; a socially awkward, perhaps mentally different wolf helper named Black, who is so named due to his melanism, has left the immediate pack due to his raging puberty, as his two growing front fangs became similar to the buck teeth of a typical geek at that point in his life. Even earlier, Gwandoya's lonely older brother Jockey (who was himself a helper at one stage in his life) had also left the pack, but lost one of his eyes to a young male lion and almost died in his attempt to raid a non-Waziri village, thearafter becoming half blind and prone to disliking anyone who isn't an African golden wolf.
Meanwhile, A drought unnervingly enters the normally frantic savannah off guard, which explains why some animals - like Chichi, Popo and Jockey - are starving almost to death. First of all, the loner had to deal with greedy poachers from far away (think of both America and Western Europe), growling at them and killing one of them in a risky manner before eating them all, since they're not his typical kind of prey. A week after murdering the poachers, he has to attack Ken because of his hunger.