By Sumitra on February 7th, 2013 Category: Animals, Pics
79-year-old Werner Freund has a unique gift. The ex-paratrooper and
now wolf-researcher from Germany can get along with wolves so well, it’s
almost like he’s a member of their pack. In fact, it’s been 40 long
years since he started living among wolves and rearing them from pups at
his
‘Wolfspark’ sanctuary
, located in Merzig, in the German province of Saarland. The close
relationship between Werner and his wolves is quite obvious from
pictures of him leaning back on his haunches and howling, and of the
wild beasts eating meat straight from his mouth.
Wolves are generally a feared species; come into close quarters and
your chances of making it out alive are quite slim. But things are
different in the case of Werner. It’s like they’ve accepted him as one
of their own. When Werner is around, his wolves are actually playful,
docile and submissive towards him. Perhaps it’s because he’s
successfully asserted his dominance as the alpha male in the pack. The
park is inhabited by wolves from six different packs around the world,
including Siberian, Arctic, Canadian, European and Mongolian ones. They
were mostly acquired as cubs from animal parks or zoos and hand-reared
by Werner.
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