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Meet Roddy: The wolf evading Lower Saxony guns

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July 8, 2021

For two years now, a wolf in Lower Saxony has been officially permitted to be killed. But he keeps escaping hunters — to the chagrin of the authorities and the delight of animal rights advocates.

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