”Is it possible that your daughter goes to the bus stop and finds an animal carcass torn to pieces by wolves?”, the answer is ”yes” and there is nothing wrong with that

TRENT. ”Good morning The Dolomites, I live in Sopramonte. I wonder if it is still possible to wake up in the morning and your daughter finds in front of the bus stop to go to school an animal carcass that has been mauled to pieces in the center of the town by, it seems, wolves”. The answer, to the lady who wrote to us and sent us images of a preyed ungulate, is obviously ‘‘yes, it’s more than normal”. Nothing extraordinary. We are at Overmounta hamlet of Trento located in over 600 meters above sea level on the Mount BondonAnd. A place pleasant also because it is in close contact with beautiful and lush nature. If you open the windows of certain homes you can say, without fear of contradiction, to your “citizen” guests: ‘Look how wonderful, the forest, the nature, the tranquility, the wild animals’.

Wolves exist on Monte Bondone (from 2021 a couple it reproduced itself by generating 4 puppies and giving life to the so-called ”Branco Bondone/Stivo”). As they now exist in a good part of Trentino, returned (we always remember: nThey have not been reintroduced by anyone but they are simply returned to our mountains and their presence is as natural as that of a fox, a weasel, or any other predator) to live on the territory. To live, wolves eat. And what do they eat? They are generalist and opportunistic carnivores and, as stated by the Province of Trento, their diet ”in Italy it is made up almost exclusively of wild ungulatesespecially the boar in the Apennines or deer, roe deer and chamois on the Alps”.

Now where they eat and how they eator, no need to explain, it doesn’t depend on us human beings. No blood and death in a town center. The ungulate can be ”busted” by wolves nearby to a town also because the snowfalls of these days and the return of the cold they also push the prey to drop in altitude by getting closer to anthropized places. At the little girl who at the bus stop will find a wild animal carcass killed and eaten by another wild animal one can only say that what happened is normal and remind them, once again, how lucky she is to live in such a pleasant and genuine place.

THE city ​​children they often cry cats crushed and disemboweled from cars in transit, cyears run over, pigeons crushed, maybe there are even some at the bus stop syringe, vomit, or broken glass because some of them similar adult he had a ”good night”. Nature, especially in certain places, should not surprise us (even if it is raw and cruel). Human beings, on the other hand, are always astonished.