wed, 13 jan 2016, 16:24

Jogger injured by wolf

GARTOW –

A wolf has a jogger in Germany slightly wounded. That would already be on christmas day happened in a forest near Gartow, between Berlin and Hamburg. The story came Wednesday to the outside. It would be the first injury to a human since wolves returned to Germany around the turn of the century.

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The man was deep in the woods, jogging. Because he headphones ophad, he noticed not that he was in the vicinity of two cubs came. Suddenly he felt that as a wolf, his hand touched. ,,The man pulled his hand away. Who came in contact with a tooth of the wolf, making a cut on the thumb was,” says a wolvendeskundige. By shouting, kicking, and using branches to swing, he threw the wolves away.

The jogger had the impression that the wolves with him wanted to play, he didn’t have the impression that he was attacked.

The chance is small that the dogs went. The description of the cubs, and corresponds to a young couple who last year were born. Moreover, it happened at a place in the forest where no stray dogs.

Germany has about four hundred wild wolves. One of them banjerde last summer by the provinces of Drenthe and Groningen.