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| By Associated Press January 16, 2007 |
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Farmers cried "wolf" in the Golan Heights, and Israeli soldiers mobilized to trap one, according to a military magazine.
A wolf pack has been preying on cattle and other livestock in the Israeli-controlled territory, causing considerable losses to farmers, the soldiers' weekly "Bamahane" reported in its current issue. The Nature Reserves Authority asked the army unit to take a break from its combat training and help capture one of the wolves, which would be fitted with a transmitter to allow tracking of the pack.
"This will give us a picture of the location of the pack," which numbers 13 wolves, Nature Reserves Authority official Yotam Gendler said, and help in a decision about whether to cull the pack.
Soldiers spread the carcasses of cows and other animals around an army firing range to attract the wolves. An officer in the unit assigned a communications specialist to Gendler to coordinate trapping a wolf, anesthetizing it and implanting the transmitter.
The "lucky" wolf to carry the transmitter is a two-year-old male, the report said. "Without the help of the soldiers and the officer, the operation would have been much more complicated," Gendler told the weekly.
Israel captured the strategic Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war. |
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