“When we speak about the wolf, I would learn, we are never only speaking about wolves” LONE WOLF tells the true story of a wolf called Slavc, born in the south of Slovenia, and collared with a GPS tracker by biologists researching wolf behaviour. In late 2011, at just 18 months old, he left his pack behind and set out on a walk of more than 1000 miles through the Alps. He crossed Slovenia, and then Austria, where wolves had been extinct for centuries. He crossed six-lane highways, swam huge rivers and traversed mountain passes in the very depths of winter. In spring he came to Italy, to mountains just north of Verona, and there he bumped into a female wolf on a walkabout of her own. Astonishingly, the only…
