Experts drop recommendation to kill wolf: "did not go for child"

Utrecht provincial authorities will press ahead with their efforts to get permission to shoot a wolf thought to be implicated in two incidents involving children, despite experts now arguing against the plan. Utrecht had based its decision on the recommendation of animal protection organisation Zoogdierenvereniging. It had previously said the wolf that had pushed a three-year-old girl to the ground in the Utrechtse Heuvelrug area on Wednesday and showed “ worryingly atypical behaviour”. However, talks with the girl’s father have...