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Experts warn hybrid predators are attacking people and livestock and are now a major threat

In the spring of 2023, a livestock farmer in central Italy lost several sheep in a single night to an animal that local wildlife officers initially logged as a wolf. Genetic testing told a different ...
New Scientist

Himalayan wolf-dog hybrids emerge as a threat to wolves and people

There’s no doubt. The greyish coat, the effortless trot over soft snow, the way it stops, stalks, then strikes, picking off a marmot and ending it with one bite: it’s a wolf. That’s what I’m watching ...