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Martina Costanzo

  • Biodiversity Journal, 12 (2): 0379-0384

    Francesca Crispino, Martina Costanzo, Angelo Lucia & Giacomo Gervasio
    Early and double breeding in a pack of hybrid wolves in Calabria (Southern Italy)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2021.12.2.379.384

    ABSTRACT
    Some anomalies in the breeding cycle of a pack of wolf-dog hybrids in a semi-anthropized area in the central-western part of Calabria are described. The data were collected between October 2019 and March 2021 by direct observations and video-camera trapping. In addition to recording anomalous morphological and phenotypic traits present in varying degrees in some individuals of the pack, we documented for two consecutive years the breeding of a subordinate female that was about three months early compared with the normal wolf breeding cycle. Moreover, in spring 2020, it was possible to observe double breeding within the same pack, due to the regular reproduction of the dominant female.