Monday, 2 December 2013

In the company of wolves

BBC / Lobo Marley

"It was 1965 and he was 19, but he hadn't sat down at a table to eat since he was a small child. He had been living for up to 12 years alone in the mountains with only wolves, goats, snakes and other animals for company."

Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja: Did this man live with wolves?

"The first time Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja sat in front of a bowl of soup, he didn't know what to do. He looked carefully, cupped his hand and plunged it into the bowl. The contact with the boiling liquid made him jump and the plate ended up in little pieces on the floor." ...

Marcos Joven
Marcos Rodríguez

"When he was little - about six or seven, he estimates - his father sold him to a farmer, who took him to the Sierra Morena mountains, to help out an ageing goatherd." ...

In the Company of Wolves by Caitlin Clarkson

"One day I went into a cave and started to play with wolf cubs that lived there and I fell asleep. Later, the mother brought food for them and I woke up." ...

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Iberian Wolf, Canis Lupus Signatus