Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
ANIMALS / TT
The young wolf who died when it was hit by a car in Skåne in March was genetically valuable and came from last year’s litter in Tiveden.
The EPA concludes this after a DNA analysis of the dead wolf. Had the animal lived, it could probably have helped to reduce inbreeding and thus the risk of congenital diseases. The parents, who immigrated to Sweden from Russia and Finland are from a conservation point of view, some of Scandinavia’s most valuable wolves.
“But for the Tiveden pair should be able to help reduce inbreeding in the Scandinavian wolf population, their puppies must get their own offspring,” says Helene Lindahl, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Presumably there are only four of eight puppies born alive from the two Tiveden Litters known. In addition to the traffic fatalities last year’s young, three Tiveden Wolves from the litter of 2013 have been shot in the wolf culls in Sweden and Norway.