Werner Freund, 79, has devoted the last 40 years of his life to wolves. To learn more about them and defeat the stigmas surrounding them, he became part of their pack.
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In 1972, Werner Freund established Wolfspark Werner Freund, a 25-acre sanctuary in Germany for wolves acquired from animal parks and zoos. Forty years later, the researcher is 79 years old and behaves as the alpha male of the pack of 29 wolves, who were mostly hand-reared.
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But the wolves aren't his pets. "You can't domesticate a wolf," Freund says. "I had to become a wolf."
