Overview
- The attack Monday marks the first recorded wolf bite on a person in Germany since the animals returned in the late 1990s, according to the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation.
- Police captured the wolf after it entered Hamburg’s Binnenalster lake and moved it to Klövensteen Wildlife Park, where veterinary checks are underway and officials will decide its future.
- The woman suffered a bite to the face, received stitches at a Hamburg hospital, and was later discharged, according to local reports.
- Environmental authorities say the animal was likely a young, dispersing wolf that became disoriented in the city after multiple sightings across Hamburg over the weekend.
- The rare encounter comes as Europe reduces protections for wolves and Germany adopts rules that make it easier to shoot wolves that kill or wound livestock.