Grey Wolf

The wolf’s range in Bosnia and Herzegovina takes in the hill and mountain country of the deciduous and conifer Dinarides, from the Croatian border in the northwest to the Montenegrin border in the southeast. Across the whole of the country, save the northern parts toward the Sava, the wolf is present permanently or from time to time, in smaller or greater numbers. The body weight of Bosnian-Herzegovinian wolves ranges from 34 to 56 kg in males and 29–45 kg in females.

Though a lone wolf may now and then be met in the wild, the normal social life of wolves unfolds in the pack. As a rule the pack consists of a breeding pair and their offspring — a family, in other words. Wolves reach sexual maturity at two years, and until then they stay with their parents; the previous year’s young help to raise the next generation. On reaching maturity the young wolves usually leave their parents’ territory and set out in search of a range of their own. The parents are dominant over their offspring, so there are no struggles for supremacy.

On Klekovača the wolf is a constant presence, and its track and its voice are part of the wildness of these mountains — wary, intelligent and elusive, it is a supreme challenge for the seasoned hunters of our hunting ground.