How One Animal Divided Europe

一种动物如何分裂了欧洲

By Jonathan C. Slaght

作者:Jonathan C. Slaght

June 11, 2025, 8 AM ET

2025年6月11日,上午8点 (东部时间)

In 2012, a young wolf named Slavc loped into the Lessini Mountains of Italy, completing a 1,200-mile route from Slovenia, where he was born. This was a dangerous place for a wolf to settle. The region had been proudly wolf free since about 1860; a stone commemorates the spot where the last one was killed. Slavc, who had been outfitted with a GPS collar by Slovenian biologists, soon encountered a female of his kind, a wanderer from the south. They became a pair—the first pack Lessinia had seen in more than a century—and the vanguard of a lupine renaissance.

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