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The supposed wolf in Berlin-Spandau is said to be a dog
Residents from Spandau reported to the police on Saturday evening and Sunday that they had sighted a wolf. A Senate expert initially confirmed. However, the assessment has now been withdrawn: it should be a dog.
- Excitement in Berlin-Spandau because residents want to have seen a supposed wolf
- The first official assessment was revised – apparently it is a dog
- In 2020 a she-wolf was spotted in Adlershof
The wolf sighted in Berlin-Spandau is said not to have been a wolf after all: According to new information from the Berlin Senate Environmental Administration on Sunday afternoon, it is just a wolf-like dog.
The police had announced in the morning that several people had reported on Saturday and Sunday and said that they had allegedly observed a wolf in Berlin-Spandau. Colleagues also saw the animal and took photos and videos, said a spokesman. Previously had the “Berlin Zeitung” reported.
Animal probably more of a missing dog
An expert from the Senate Environmental Administration then examined the police recordings, it was initially said. His first assessment was that it was probably a single young male wolf who probably came from the Döberitzer Heide. The police assessed the animal as “non-confrontational”, but passers-by should not approach it, a police spokesman advised.
A spokesman for the authorities corrected this information on Sunday afternoon, according to which it was probably a young wolf. An expert commissioned by the Senate Department for the Environment examined other images and came to a different conclusion. “We had this checked on site by our commissioned expert: It is an escaped wolf-like dog. The owner has already reported it,” wrote Jan Thomsen, spokesman for the environmental administration, on Twitter.
Many wolves in Brandenburg
Around the turn of the millennium, wolves had resettled and multiplied in Germany. As the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and the Federal Documentation and Advice Center on the subject of wolves announced in November last year, 161 wolf packs were registered in Germany in 2021/2022, most of them in Brandenburg, followed by Lower Saxony and Saxony.
In 2021, a pack of wolves settled in the Döberitzer Heide nature reserve west of Berlin. Initially, two parent animals and four puppies were sighted on the site, in May 2022 the Heinz Sielmannn Foundation assumed there were a total of eight wolves on the site.
In January 2020, a she-wolf from Saxony who was wearing a transmitter came to Berlin-Adlershof. According to the Berlin environmental administration, she left no trace apart from the transmitter data. After a short time the animal migrated on to Mecklenburg.
Broadcast: rbb24 Inforadio, 01/22/2023, 12:00 p.m
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