After more than a hundred years of absence, the wolf returned to the Netherlands. That suggests at least wolves expert Leo Linnartz organization Wolves in the Netherlands, who speaks of a “historic day”. The animal was seen and photographed along the N381, near the Drenthe village of North Sleen.
According to Linnartz there is no doubt when you see the pictures, let him know to press agency ANP. “This is the first in our country with good evidence,” he says. Moreover wandered in recent days been a wolf just across the border with Germany, not far from North Sleen.
Also, our science editor Lucas Brouwers considers that chances are it is a real wolf, he says after seeing the photos:
“He looks pretty wolvig out. Especially by that fat tail and because it is such a large beast. And the color of the coat too. “
It is the first time in a long time that there is again a living wolf in Netherlands seen. But how long, according to Brouwers is not exactly clear. According Linnartz is the last more sure 150 years ago, while the Preservation of Nature, that the last wolf was observed in 1897 in the Brabant Heeze.
Several years ago, the rumor was already circulating that a wolf walked in pigeons. Because the footage was too vague, they kept it as a probability of 95 percent. In 2013 was found a dead wolf in Luttelgeest Flevoland. The presumption is that the wolf was dead and laid down there
The village where the wolf was seen today.
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