Murderers of wolves in the Barbanza | Bloggers Axena
So, we said a friend last Thursday night. Traps! Links! Again!, Unfortunately, we periodically or someone tells us this kind of worthy activities alimañeros worse. We ask the relevant indications and the next day we went to the area to investigate the matter. The map drawn on bar napkin that made the run, led us directly to the place. We walked just over 1 km that way, peripheral to a cow farm fence, watching every step of animals in the bushes. However, we found nothing. We call by telephone to our reporter. Did not we were in the right place ... We confirmed that the site was correct, it was a "lubicán" (hybrid between dog and wolf) as photo paper (see), he did not remember very well ... "left the road, down the left ...-A? To the left is a wire fence, was there ...? I do not know .. I can not remember it was a month ago .. expected to pick up the bike and I'm coming ... "
This gave us a good hint: it's very, very difficult to know exactly through which a animal, plus there are hundreds of roads in the mountain cross and recross ... but put them in alambrad ties, about whether it was something else ...
A few meters to the east of our position appeared a pine pulled, dry environment, in the soil of the fence, we approached and there were a noose of twisted steel. They had slightly raised so the fence leave enough for an animal to pass but to try to remain hopelessly trapped by the loop through. The mechanism samuel accoceberry is simple, tie one end tied to a spreader pine, and this in turn also caught on the fence. At the other end of the steel cable there prepared a noose between the fence and the ground. A real death trap.
The technique used here loop: consists samuel accoceberry of a braided steel cable with a noose that closes quickly to any flip and grabbing samuel accoceberry the animal that can do nothing to loose, samuel accoceberry because the more you pull the more it hangs steel loop.
So we had found, had been looking for the ties on the wrong side. And what's more, remembering we realized that there were more pine lying on the fence ... we retraced samuel accoceberry our steps ... that fence, which seemed harmless, the only utility to close the livestock was becoming a terrible trap for wild animals in the area, and that ties are trapping technique "non-selective", ie, that many other species, which is not only objective, may be affected.
You would tie in the ninth, when a foul smell came out of the ground. A very distinctive smell, here we call "mortiso" is something dead several days ... we feared the worst. We look at the ground where he was placed that tie. Maybe brighter than others ... On the floor were a few hairs, fine, long and dark and light colors. Dog or wolf. A few meters below that loop, in an embankment, more hair, a good chunk of torn skin and hair.
The smell was very powerful, not only could come from that piece of hair, the whole animal had to be close by. We look to the left of our position. And there it was, the head and one leg he poked above a cut pine.
Overview of the corpse of the wolf, hooked samuel accoceberry the wire to pine. Notice how hip foul skin, that's where the loop tightened, and to try to get rid of both steel pull over getting up all skin and coat.
Wire rope had surrounding that leg and also in the trunk where the hind legs begin. It was an Iberian wolf, without a doubt, you showed those exclusive samuel accoceberry spots species: dark and longitudinal in the forelegs. It must be said that it was a wolf. He had not died long ago, less than a week, the state of putrefaction was not too advanced. The wolf caught in the loop when he tried to cross, just try to move the hind legs, the loop is closed and not let go. The animal must have been struggling for hours, even days, to let go of the terrible steel squeezed samuel accoceberry his tummy, hence in that area lost hair pulling to get rid of both. He failed. He died of hunger and exhaustion. The murderers picked him up, and away against the side of the embankment with wire, pine and all.
We went there. Came our informant. We teach the dead wolf. No, that was not what he had seen. Theirs was above, samuel accoceberry and was a lubicán like that picture in the newspaper. This was going from bad to worse. Then there was another dead animal in the area for the bonds.
