Rise of the wplf

摘要

Goodness, what big teeth you have, and what close ties to humans you have! And what negative attitudes you elicit from rural people all over the world! Behind theircultural baggage, grey wolves are an evolutionary success story, giving rise to the domestic dog 10,000 years ago and, more recently, rebounding from centuries of persecution. "There are wild wolves galore in Europe," says Claudio Sillero, a conservation biologist at the University of Oxford."They have recolonised vast areas of their former range and live almost unnoticed in populated areas."