A pack of European wolves is now living in a new woodland home at Longleat.

It is the first time the species, which once roamed wild in the UK, has gone on public display at the Wiltshire safari park.

The eight-strong pack, which consists of mum Eliska, dad Jango and their six pups, moved into the Wolf Wood earlier this year.

The wild wolf population in Europe is thought to be around 12,000 in over 28 countries. There are established packs in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Portugal, Spain and Italy with numbers also on the rise in parts of France and Germany.

In 2011 wolves were also reported in Belgium and the Netherlands.

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