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Kinga Wołk

Kinga Wołk

"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill." - Shinichi Suzuki

In pratum

In pratum

Winter is coming. In the Subcarpathian suburb it means a deer or a hare flitting suddenly on the horizon or just crossing your path on the run. It's a time of bird feeding and wild animal marks on the snow. Hopefully to hear a wolf's howl somewhere far away.

Welcome

Welcome

Understanding natural canine behavior is essential similarly to understanding gray wolf as an apex predatory species. Canine hacking means understanding a dog by observing its natural behavior. Lupine one is awareness of Canis lupus and Canis familiaris originating from a common ancestor.

Ambushing gray wolf documented

Voyageurs Wolf Project camera traps (May 2018), documents certain changes in Minnesota wolf predatory behavior strategies.Since 2015, the VWP identified approximately 400 situations when wolf ambushed on beaver - attacking from downwind, so beavers couldn't sniff an approaching predator.

European jackal-wolf ecology

Thomas Newsome, environmentalist, Australian dingo ecology expert, researched both of genus Canis representatives in Europe testing the hypothesis that the range expansion of golden jackal was triggered by intensive persecution and resulting decline of the gray wolf.

Wolf-dog's hybridisation draft

It is obvious and scientifically confirmed, gray wolf and domestic dog can randomly cross resulting with a hybrid as a consequence of pairing each other different - however infertile (capable of interbreeding), matched by sufficient parental compatibility - species/subspecies individuals.

Dogs of Chernobyl ecological niche

Whereas multiple hypothesis related to Chernobyl wolves possible migrations are worldwide risen, Chernobyl dogs got a chance to be health - and radiation - monitored and breeding controlled anew.

A few words about wolves of the Chernobyl Zone

Native fauna and flora species still inhabit the considered - especially by outsiders - as unfriendly dangerous environment, flourishing there without a human factor presence, where approximately 70% is forest (biocenosis) containing water sources like lakes, rivers and marshes (biotope).