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...was what we said when we saw a canid furry thing outside the chalet.
I had seen really big tracks - Alsatian size - around the chalet, and some very nasty excrement - meat and fruit seeds. Seemed bigger than the small foxes we get around the place. The animal we then saw was brown at the front end and grey at the back. There's a lot of nonsense about interbreeding of foxes and wolves - it IS possible - and we did have a wolf pair at Aminona for a while, before they discreetly were shot. But I am not leaping to wild assertions of seeing a fox/wolf hybrid, just shocked at the size of the specimen - any else with a brown-grey graduated fox sighting and something of this size?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@valais2, woolif!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Polar Bears and Grizzly bears interbreed, they have only ever found a few and a one or two of them were taken from the wild and put in to a circus... a long time ago.
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It was a direwolf! Send a raven!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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went to watch the Jean-Michel Bertand (vallee des loups) documentary in the summer, he doesn't say exactly where its set, just saying in the alps but i'm fairly sure it was around L2A. Even only following maybe 60% of it, it was still fascinating.
He's a bit weird though lol
Still only the one sighting in chamonix that i'm aware of which makes me a bit sad, i'd love to see one!
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Definitely wolves around Monetier, usually one or two sightings each winter, often around dawn on the Col du Lauteret or in the Val de Clarée. We've got a badger sett on the field behind us with an entrace down the culvert that runs along the edge of our garden. We did wonder why Lola was so interested in it, until one evening it ran across the path in front of us. As for the foxes, I haven't seen any that large.
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@eddiethebus, good shout on the film. DVD ordered to watch on our next visit. I thought it had been filmed in the Italian Alps.
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A wolf was hit by a train in Tamins at the bottom of the hill here a few days ago. They reckon it was part of the Calanda pack, one of only 3 packs in Switzerland
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| @eddiethebus, good shout on the film. DVD ordered to watch on our next visit. I thought it had been filmed in the Italian Alps. |
its possible. I just thought i recognised some of the areas around L2A, Tete de Lauranoure specifically.... I have been wrong before though!
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@eddiethebus, I'll let you know when I've watched it. I know that some of the aerial shots were filmed elsewhere to disguise the real location of the wolves.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@eddiethebus, @Hells Bells, If you check IMDB it says that the film "La vallée des loups" was filmed in the French Alps.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@larry1950, the French equivalent mentioned the Italian Alps.
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@Hells Bells, I haven't seen the film just gave the link but it does say the aerial photography was shot in a different valley to protect the site so maybe some was filmed in Italy as well.
FWIW I have seen wolves in a wildlife park but it was some time ago and I can't recall if they were pure grey or had some red in their coat.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| Definitely wolves around Monetier, usually one or two sightings each winter, |
If you pop into the Maison du Parc des Ecrins they will tell you all about Wolves in the area. AFAIK not many Wolves in the Ecrins national park because the cols are too high for them to cross. The body of a baby wolf was found in Vallouise mid January, probably injured by a passing car.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Apparently some wolf activity in the last few weeks on Rocher de diseur in Montgenevre. A few dead roe deer.
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