A wolf fell into a photo trap in Rottenburg. A shepherd had set them up near his sheep. The sighting is now confirmed.
- The wolf * did not injure any of the Saile family's sheep
- It is the first sighting in the region
- An expert is not surprised about the wolf
Bad Niederau / Baden-Württemberg - The first wolf was sighted in the Tübingen district. On Monday (February 27th, 2020) he fell into a photo trap in Rottenburg, in the Bad Niederau district . The trap was set up by the Saile family to monitor your flock of sheep.
The wolf was filmed for 20 minutes as it roamed near the family's sheep pen. However, the wolf left the sheep intact. The district manager and wildlife officer from Starzach, Johannes Scheit, also commented on the Swabian Tageblatt: "It was clear that it would come at some point."
Wolf: Little surprise for the expert
In addition to his unsurprised assessment of the situation, he also stated that a wolf can travel up to 70 kilometers in one night. Unfortunately it will not be possible to uniquely identify the sighted animal.
However, the recordings were unequivocally classified as wolf sighting by the Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Energy Economics in Baden-Württemberg.
The district manager uses the video recordings to assume that it is a young wolf . According to Scheit, wolves leave your pack when they are between 10 and 22 months old. It may well be that the spotted wolf is looking for a new area. The wildlife official, however, called for relaxation, because it is quite possible that the wolf would no longer be in this area.
If the panic in front of the #Wolf is rampant again: There is much, much more of the guy in our woods and you don't want to encounter an angry brook with newborns or an insulted boar. They are faster than you. PS: I love wild boar! https://t.co/o4o6NJltyL
- Dr. Anja K. Peters (@thesismum) February 27, 2020Wolf: Not the first verified document
This year it is the 3rd so-called C1 certificate for a wolf in Baden-Württemberg . The uniqueness of the evidence from wolves is based on the SCALP criteria. There are three categories.
C1 stands for evidence supported by hard facts and thus for clear evidence. The mean categorization C2 is assigned for all cases confirmed by experts . If a note is not confirmed, it is assigned the category C3.
The other two records are even clearly identifiable animals . In both cases it is the wolf with the identification number GW852m. The male originally comes from the Schneverdinger pack from Lower Saxony.
Wolf from Lower Saxony poached in Baden-Württemberg
He tore a farm animal in Bad Wildbad in the Black Forest at the end of January, which revealed the DNA samples carried out after the discovery. In the past year, the wolf has been clearly identified 10 times in the case of clues.
For the year 2018, a wolf territoirum in the Enztal was even documented by the "Federal Documentation and Advice Center on Wolf" ( DBBW ). According to the site, a single wolf lived here.
In 2017, a male wolf was illegally shot in Baden-Württemberg. It was the 24th case of this kind in Germany since 2000. In Baden-Württemberg, three wolves were also killed in traffic accidents.
Wolf: Sightings are not uncommon
The case in Bad Niederau is not the first this year. On February 17, a wolf was also recorded by a photo trap * in North Rhine-Westphalia. This caught the wolf when he was working on an animal carcass.
In mid-February, a video from Saxony-Anhalt went viral on social networks. Whether it really shows a wolf crossing a country road * has not yet been proven.
By Lucas Maier
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