{"id":736,"date":"2012-10-18T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T11:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=736"},"modified":"2012-10-18T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T11:51:10","slug":"ulv-ulv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2012\/10\/18\/ulv-ulv\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulv, ulv!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As shown on TV Midtvest.<\/p><\/div>\n

To many people, Denmark outside of Copenhagen is either a pretty blomsterhave<\/strong> (flower garden) or a boring motorvej<\/strong> (motorway, freeway) that unnecessarily prolongs the drive between Central Europe and the attractive wilderness of Norway and Sweden. Too bad that these people don\u2019t know that there are some pretty wild things going on in Denmark too! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

A couple of days ago, a group of fuglekigger\/e<\/strong> (bird watcher\/s) had brought their kikkert\/er<\/strong> (binocular\/s) to the silent klit\/ter<\/strong> (dune\/s) and bakke\/r<\/strong> (hill\/s) of Nationalpark Thy<\/strong> in the sparsely populated, north western part of Jutland. Officially inaugurated in 2007, Denmark\u2019s first national park is mostly known for its unique landskab\/er<\/strong> (landscape\/s), plante\/r<\/strong> (plant\/s) and the occasional flock of fugl\/e<\/strong> (birds). All of a sudden, one of the naturelsker\/e<\/strong> (nature lover\/s) starts to shiver, and in a low voice asks one of his comrades to come over and take a look in his binoculars: A distant, grey beast, about the size of a dog, directs its yellow gaze towards the humans. En ulv<\/strong> (a wolf)! A camera flashes, but it has already vanished behind the sand-hills.<\/p>\n

\u201dThe animal later reappeared, and we could all watch it for about half an hour,\u201d the bird watcher Kim Frost tells TV Midtvest<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the science mag\u00a0videnskab.dk<\/a> (videnskab<\/strong> = science), the story\u2019s true enough. There are indeed\u00a0ulveflok\/ke<\/strong> (packs of wolves) living in the border region between\u00a0Tyskland<\/strong> (Germany) and Polen<\/strong> (Poland), some 550 km (about 350 miles) away from Thy. And that\u2019s a piece of cake if you\u2019re a lone wolf with an urge to stray. (The scientists recently registered a she-wolf who had reached Norway from Finland following some 10,000 km of rugged paths!)<\/p>\n

A few centuries ago, Denmark must have been a really exciting place, with ulv\/e<\/strong> (wolves), bj\u00f8rn\/e<\/strong> (bears) and elg\/e<\/strong> (elk\/s, moose\/s). Today, we must manage with hjort\/e<\/strong> (hart\/s) and r\u00e6v\/e<\/strong> (fox\/es) and lesser dyr<\/strong> (animal\/s). \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know when the last bear or elk disappeared from Denmark. You can see an elk skeleton, however, at Nationalmuseet<\/strong> (The National Museum) in Copenhagen. Now and then there\u2019s also an elk swimming across \u00d8resund from Sweden. Every time that happens, it creates a mess in Sj\u00e6lland, with all the newspapers running amuck until the police finally bed\u00f8ver<\/strong> (drug) the elk and bring it back to Sweden!<\/p>\n

Funnily enough, wolves survive in a Danish idiom:<\/p>\n

If you suspect something, if something feels strange and not in the way it should be, you can say: Der er ugler i mosen.<\/strong>
\nThe literal meaning is: There are owls in the bog.<\/em> But that\u2019s just a corruption of the original proverb: Der er ulve i mosen.<\/strong> There are wolves in the bog\/on the moor.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to videnskab.dk, the last Danish wolf was shot just south of Skive in Jutland in 1813. The last? Well, I\u2019m not so sure about that any more\u2026<\/p>\n

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To many people, Denmark outside of Copenhagen is either a pretty blomsterhave (flower garden) or a boring motorvej (motorway, freeway) that unnecessarily prolongs the drive between Central Europe and the attractive wilderness of Norway and Sweden. Too bad that these people don\u2019t know that there are some pretty wild things going on in Denmark too!…<\/p>\n

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