The
wolf will soon be another extinct species if we don´t stop
the killing of these beautiful animals, just because some people
think they are evil and dangerous.But that's all wrong. We are
more dangerous to them than they ever will be to us. They have
much more to be afraid about than we do. The wolf is a very shy
animal.They wish us no harm. All they want is to live in peace
and harmony with mother earth, just like all living creatures
do. The only kill what they need to eat
Unfortunately there are many generations of children that have
got their picture of the wolf through old stories like "The
little red Riding Hood", "3 little pigs". And many
more of those old fairytales.
Even back in the old days 500 B.C people could read and hear wild
and scary stories about the wolves. Back in Europe in the sixteenth
century, people considered lonely wolves to be humans transformed
to werewolf's. And over 30,000 people were burned to death or
skinned alive. The history tells us that people willingly hang
on to those conceptions that they have been thought as a child.
And even to day we
still noise about the evilness of the wolf, even though it's in
a little milder way. But the most typical sign of a wolf is shyness.
The wolf is more afraid of you
than you are of him.
A
full grown up speciment of the Scandinavian wolves have an averge
weight of 43 kilo for the grown up male and 34 kilo for the female.
Their looks, primary colour is greyish-yeallow, with a filling
of reddish-brown and black. But in north America it various from
black to white. Next to man this predator has the biggest natural
spreading on the north side of the hemisphere. The breeding takes
place in February-Mars, the female wolf can have 1-6 puppies after
62-63 days of pregnancy. In Sweden my home country, the wolf were
almost totally exterminated back in the 60´s. But in 1966
the wolf got placed under the protection of the law. And to day
there are about 67-80 wolves in the Scandinavian peninsula, Sweden
and Norway. And the number is fortunately increasing.
The wolf is a very reserved animal, the most typical sign of the
wolves is shyness. They are more afraid of you than you are of
them and they wish you no harm. Just to be left in peace. A wolf
never kills more than it needs...
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