page_title: Monts de Gueret Animal Park
section_title: Wolves
hierarchical_section_title: Monts de Gueret Animal Park / Wolves
caption_attribution_description: English: Celtic image of wolf.
context_page_description: The Monts de Gueret animal park — The Wolves of Chabrières is a 13 hectares public animal park located close to Guéret in the commune and the prefecture of the Creuse department, Limousin, central France.
  The park regularly receives biology and animal psychology students who do field studies of the animals. The students come from universities in Paris, Marseille, Limoges, Poitiers, Bordeaux, Rennes, Tours, Liège and also from the National veterinary school of Alfort.
  The park supports organizations such as FERUS and loup.org, in protecting the wolves of Europe.
  International Wolf Center also set up several programmes, helping to protect wolves.
context_section_description: European grey wolves, ice white Mackenzie wolves, black Mackenzie wolves and white arctic wolves, are all living separately in the different parts of the park and can not interact physically.
  The wolves' habitat in the park is designed to let the predators' wild lifestyle be as close to natural as possible, but only the pack of European grey wolves have the privilege to live and hunt within the two areas of forested land with their lake.
  In 2013, two white arctic wolf cubs were born for the first time in the park.
  During the daily feeding in Chabrières Park, the European grey wolves fight for relatively small pieces of meat, which employees of the wolf park throw from the public observation deck as a spectacle for viewers and a welcome snack for the wolves. The real hunt, cruel but natural for predators, begins when the audience leaves and the pack hunts for prey under the leadership of the alpha wolf, the male or female with the highest rank in the pack.
  The documentary film Lobo, wolf of Chabrières, created at the request of the wolf park, tells the story of the life of Lobo the cub (as a rule, in the wild only the highest rank pair, the alpha wolves, can produce pups). Born in Chabrières and growing up in his pack of European grey wolves, a community that lives according to the natural laws of their species, the film displays the various behaviours of each individual wolf and the complex relationships based on their status in the pack.
  The ten-minute-long film presents Lobo's life from birth and adolescence, full of games of learning, to the time when he, a strong adult, gains the status of alpha wolf by his ingenuity, strength and courage during the hunts.
caption: Image of a wolf in ancient Celtic style
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