A wild animal rarely comes that close to humans.
The video recordings of the incident are now causing a sensation.
Celle - He moves light-footed, the wolf.
Through his territory, a field near the municipality of Wietzendorf in Lower Saxony.
The YouTube video of the scene still makes your blood run cold for a moment, because it was filmed up close, by a woman who was out on the dirt road with her dog.
"Go away!
Go away! ”She calls.
Your dog is barking.
But only after minutes does the wild animal leave.
Four days later, the “Wolf Encounter” received a good 140,000 views and more than 2000 comments.
“The wolf after meeting his wife: 'Honey, you won't believe what kind of psychos are on our way.
We should move. '”Another post:“ The wolf was probably thinking,' Hmm, a big blond crow, never seen it either '- or “The animal kept the rules of distance in an exemplary manner”
Eerie wolf encounter in Germany: expert believes in the dog factor
But does he actually have that?
Frank Faß from the Wolf Management Working Group for Lower Saxony is flabbergasted.
When talking to the
picture, he
cannot say
whether the animal was male, female, old or young
.
It is possible that the wolf was interested in its conspecific, the dog: “For the dog, his mistress was definitely something like a protective screen.
If the dog had been alone, the wolf would certainly have come much closer to him. "
The wolves returned to Germany about 20 years ago.
According to
WWF
, there have been a handful of incidents since then, but no people have been affected.
General recommendations from the
Federal Documentation and Advice Center on Wolf (DBBW)
:
keep Calm
Don't approach the wolf
Withdraw slowly - but never run away
Important: Report every wolf encounter to the wolf advisors
According to
NABU
, wolves are “one of the greatest successes” from a nature conservation point of view.
After they had been exterminated in this country for around 150 years, the first wolf pups were born in freedom in 2000, the activists report, and since then there have been more offspring.
Wolves in Germany: number, offspring and habitat
Wolves can get by wherever they can find enough food and humans leave them alone.
According to
NABU,
wolves
live in the
midst of huge agricultural monocultures
in Spain
, and in Italy in the suburbs of Rome.
For the period 2019 to 2020, the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation reports a total of 128 herds, 35 pairs and 10 individual animals.
According to the study, wolves could live in any federal state - except in the city-states of Hamburg, Berlin and Bremen.
However, they tend not to settle in areas with many roads and little game.
A widespread wolf population is therefore not to be expected.
Wolves in Bavaria: Three animals involved in attacks on game in Upper Franconia
According to the figures, there are currently two packs, two pairs and three individual animals in Bavaria.
On February 27, there was a wolf attack on a wildlife enclosure in Betzenstein in the Bayreuth district, resulting in three dead red deer and four dead sheep.
Some wild animals were able to flee.
In a second attack on March 3 in a neighboring enclosure, 18 fallow deer were killed, including 13 pregnant animals.
Wolves are strictly protected.
In Bavaria there are locally-based wolves or packs in eight regions.
In addition, individual wolves are detected almost every week elsewhere, most recently in the districts of Dingolfing-Landau and Tirschenreuth.
According to the State Office for the Environment (LfU), these are mostly migrating animals that have left their parental packs and are looking for their own area.
Wildlife in Germany: "Not only wolves deserve protection"
At the end of March, the new federal center for wolves and grazing animals was opened in Eberswalde in the Uckermark.
The aim of the facility is to enable wolves to coexist with the best possible protection for grazing animals.
“Not only the wolf deserves protection.
Grazing animals also deserve protection, ”said Federal Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) at the opening.
(frs with material from dpa)
