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Biology, conservation and tales about the Wolf

Retrace the story of the Wolf’s conservation in Italy, learn more about its Ethology and Biology. All this through a set of “Key Words” that will allow you to explore its world, the one of the naturalist and the current events around it.

Scroll over the images to discover lots of facts about the wolf.

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The wolf

* Let’s know the wolf

* Today in Italy

* Legal protection

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Let’s get to know each other

* Physical features

* Early research

* The ecological involvement

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The return

* Habitat

* Spontaneously

* The legend of the “parachuted” Wolf

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The journey

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* Dispersal

* Beyond the border

* The story of M15, aka Ligabue

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Spatial ecology and territory

* Territoriality

* Population dynamics

* Why does the dog urinate at certain points?

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Respect

* Herd life

* When there were no more wolves (until the ’70s)

* From the idea of rigid dominance to the pack as a family

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To invest in the future

* Reproduction

* Birth of protected areas

* Role of protected areas

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Communication

* Within the species

* Bad for culture

* The role of the media

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Prey and predators

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* Predation

* Survival of the wolf at landfills

* Trophic cascade: the example of the Yellowstone

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Footsteps

* Signs of presence

* Monitoring techniques

* Wolf or dog?

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Approach

* Sociality

* The research today

* Non-invasive genetic techniques

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Treaths

* Mortality

* The ‘Lupari’

* The case of canine distemper

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The trasformation

* Hybrids (from the extinction of the population to genetic extinction)

* From the wolf to the dog

* The first hybrid caught in Italy

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Prevention

* Why the wolf preys on domestic livestock?

* Wolves and guard dogs

* The breeding of guard dogs

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Management change

* Need to change

* From the risk of extinction to the management problem

* In the rest of Europe

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Side by side

* Why to preserve the wolf?

* The coexistence (good practices)

* The coexistence (cultural role)

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