#WOLF DOG HYBRID ARCHIVE#

So coexistence is possible, though of course it is not easy. “Co-existence is certainly possible because we see such a situation in other countries like Germany, Italy or Spain where there are many more wolves than there are in the Czech Republic. We’ve also heard farmers protest against their presence –so tell me can wolves and people coexist in this day and age?

“We have had at least one confirmed case of poaching and we suppose there were more of them in the past since we lost some of the packs that inhabited areas that we were monitoring.” “The population has been growing since 2014 when we had the first wolf pack in the Czech Republic, now we have about 18 wolf territories, that are now at least partly on Czech territory and we expect that their number will grow further in the years to come.”

#WOLF DOG HYBRID ARCHIVE#

Wolf in North Bohemia, photo: Š / Archive of Hnutí Duha What is the situation with wolves in the Czech Republic today? The second is to introduce genetic monitoring of the population and to have special intervention teams that are able to deal with the problem and eliminate hybrids from the population.” One is to have a stable wolf population because when they are not under pressure from poachers or hunters there would not be such a need to mate with dogs. “There are several things that European countries can do to prevent hybridization. But according to preliminary investigations, cases of wolf-dogs in Central Europe are still rare, they are more frequent in southern Europe, in Italy or Spain where there are more stray dogs.”Ĭountries in Europe have been called on to stop this mating –but how can it be curbed? So the study did not directly focus on the process of hybridization as such, but on the need to unify the terminology so that we can define the rate of hybridization. “The problem is that there is no clear definition of the term “hybrid” and it differs from one state to another. Wolf | Photo: Kateřina Hlavatá, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 How many of these wolf-dogs have we got around Europe now, according to this study? These hybrids could be more inclined to hunt domestic animals than wolves’ natural prey.” “We know that some wolf-dog hybrids are able to survive in the wild and cross-breed with dogs or wolves again, but we do not know how the situation would evolve if this were to happen much more frequently than it does now. “Mostly the problem is that these puppies are born in the wild, and then they can have some dog characteristics and behave differently, but of course if such puppies are born on a farm, then their behavior would differ from the behavior of dogs –it would be much harder to train them, as we are used to training dogs.”Īnd apart from genetic damage to the wolf species as such, are these hybrids able to survive in the wild?

And if you have a wolf-dog born on a farm – you could be facing serious problems, right? Or would training help?

Wolf dog hybrid