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It’s a question as old as folk tales and as recent as this week: Can wolves and people coexist?

I’m not going to address that question or even ask you to think on this beautiful Dog Day Saturday Afternoon. It’s much more fun to look at a nature film about wildlife on the Iberian Peninsula — that piece of Europe, shared by Spain and Portugal, sticking out into the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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At the end of that video, we’re in Northern Spain, in the foothills of the Pyrenees.

That is where the wolves are, I think, although this next video shows them at the coast, too.

It’s in Spanish, but this is one of those four-million-view films that put you right there among the pack — and they don’t speak Spanish, either.

It’s a real treat, particularly if (like me) you didn’t know that Spain has wolves.

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These wolves are controversial and have become headline news (autotranslated) and a political issue, too.

Here is some fairly neutral background information from:

• Wikipedia
• The Wolf Intelligencer page; I’m not familiar with them. It came up in a web search and they credit their information sources on this page, which is cool.
• What does the wolf eat?(Jargon alert.)

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Some lagniappe:

Meanwhile, in New York State, “Your moment of wolf pup Zen”:

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Featured image: LFRabanedo/Shutterstock

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