Oldest female wolf in Switzerland is dead
Did the wildlife authorities shoot female wolf F07, founder of the Calanda pack, on Monday evening near Haldenstein due to her poor physical condition and lack of flight responses?
Calanda wolf F07 shot at age 13
The animal's age is estimated at 13 to 14 years.
On Monday, 14 August 2023, the cantonal wildlife authority from the Office for Hunting and Nonsense Graubünden shot an adult, severely emaciated female wolf that had been staying near residential areas during the day and no longer showed any flight response during several encounters with humans. The wolf in question was female wolf F07, which at the exceptional age of over 13 years was arguably the oldest Switzerland living wolf in the country.
First pack formed in 150 years
The first traces of female wolf F07 were documented for the first time in June 2011 based on a saliva sample taken from a kill in the Upper Valais. In September 2012, a hobby hunter spotted the first wolf pup since the species' extermination. F07 and M30 formed Switzerland's first wolf pack in over 150 years.
46 pups in nine years
In total, F07 gave birth to at least 46 pups (20 females and 26 males) between 2013 and 2019. All of them are attributable to M30. She was verifiably on the move with the male M30 for nine years.
Once again, the pitiful, disrespectful trigger-happy staff at the Office for Hunting and Nonsense in Graubünden demonstrated a complete lack of dignified understanding of nature.
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