As reported, the white wolf Akira escaped from her den at the Göpfritz sanctuary during cleaning operations after severe weather. That was Tuesday. The public was asked for information about her whereabouts, and several calls helped to locate the wolf. Recently she was in the Göpfritz area. The residents there saw the wolf and with wildlife cameras. Despite this, nothing was seen of her for many times.
I saw the wolf near Allentsteig on the way home from the cafe in the afternoon
“Yesterday afternoon a friend went home from the cafe and saw her wandering around near the army cemetery in Allensteig, she took a video and put it on immediately,” says Peter Huber. Judith Exel, he and his friends started to look for a wolf. Then they looked there.
“A hunter on a high stand showed us the direction where she was going,” says Peter Huber, overwhelmed by the cohesion of the area. So many people have helped to find Akira again in the last few days.
Judith Exel was wearing a headlamp – as she does when she visits the park in Göpfritz in the dark. They marched across the country – then Akira came out of a bush. “She went to Judith and fired her!” Huber shouted. “Of course she wanted to go home anyway.”
The wolf marched on until just before it closed
Perhaps that is also the reason why the white wolf – who has spent her entire life in a natural environment and in close contact with humans – also went forward – for more than four kilometers! “One at the front, one at the back,” as Huber describes it.
She just didn’t want to go through the fence door. “She must have been so frustrated by the bad weather there that she got scared of something.” A friend then brought a frozen brown hare and they used it to lure the wolf through the door. Huber: “She was home at just half past eleven.”
The NÖN will visit Judith Exel and the wolves today.
