“Particular attention will be paid in consultation with the breeders on the monitoring of predation in the event that this specimen is still in the Aude”, affirms the prefecture.
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Four gray wolves arrived from Estonia in an animal park in the Pyrénées-Orientales had escaped from their enclosure in January 2021. The last to have never been found was probably located in Aude, announced the prefecture of the department Saturday January 22. “On the occasion of a finding of damage to a domestic herd, canine hair was harvested on August 26, 2021 in the town of Orsans, she clarified. The genetic profile of this individual turns out to be extremely close to that of wolves that escaped from a zoological park located in the town of Cases-de-Pênes on January 25, 2021.
A major system was deployed in January 2021 to find the four wolves that escaped from their enclosure in Ecozonia Park, northwest of Perpignan. Two of them had been quickly shot down and another captured. Only one could not be found. The prefecture claims that “all the elements point to the fact that this hair sample comes from this animal” male, possessing the genetic characteristics of the Eastern European wolf population. “Special attention will be paid in consultation with the breeders on the monitoring of predation in the event that this specimen is still in the Aude”, says the prefecture.