Wolves (illustration).
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But where are they?
As soon as they arrived from Estonia in an animal park in the Pyrénées-Orientales, four gray wolves escaped from their enclosure at the end of January: two were shot and two others were still running in the wild on Saturday.
"Two wolves are still in the wild, certainly in the areas of Vingrau, Opoul and Salses", not far from the Ecozonia animal park in the town of Cases-de-Pène, north-west of Perpignan, said the prefecture of the Pyrenees -Orientals.
On January 25, the day after the arrival of six wolves from the Riga Zoological Park, “excessive behavior in several of them was observed, leading to a degradation of the wire enclosure allowing the escape of four individuals despite the intervention of the healer who was bitten on the forearm and evacuated, ”explains Ecozonia on his Facebook page.
Three days later, two wolves were shot "because they presented a serious danger", continues the new animal park of 26 hectares centered on predatory animals, which was to open in February.
One of the two wolves who managed to get out of the park site was "probably injured" Wednesday by the shooting of an OFB agent, said the prefecture, specifying also that several "visual reports" of residents of the area were reported Thursday.
Wolves are sought after by agents of the French Office for Biodiversity.
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