![]() ![]() ![]() Excessive hunting began and continued until it was nearly extinct. It was still widespread in Europe during the time of the Roman Empire, when it was widely popular as a battle beast in Roman amphitheatres. With a shoulder height of up to 180 cm (71 in) in bulls and 155 cm (61 in) in cows, it was one of the largest herbivores in the Holocene it had massive elongated and broad horns that reached 80 cm (31 in) in length. The aurochs (Bos primigenius) (/ˈɔːrɒks/ or /ˈaʊrɒks/) is an extinct cattle species, considered to be the wild ancestor of modern domestic cattle. As of 2016, estimates of wolf numbers include: 4,000 in the Balkans, 3,460–3,849 in the Carpathian Mountains, 1,700–2,240 in the Baltic states, 1,100–2,400 in the Italian peninsula, and around 2,500 in the northwest Iberian peninsula as of 2007.įrom wolf wikipedia page. The decline of the traditional pastoral and rural economies seems to have ended the need to exterminate the wolf in parts of Europe. Since 1980, European wolves have rebounded and expanded into parts of their former range. They continued to survive in parts of Finland, Eastern Europe and Southern Europe. Wolves have been persecuted in Europe for centuries, having been exterminated in Great Britain by 1684, in Ireland by 1770, in Central Europe by 1899, in France by the 1930s, and in much of Scandinavia by the early 1970s. There is extensive legal protection in many European countries, although there are national exceptions. In many countries of the European Union, the wolf is strictly protected under the 1979 Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Appendix II) and the 1992 Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora (Annex II and IV). ![]() If your story is set about AD 1500, there should be wolves almost everywhere in Europe.Įurope, excluding Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, has 17,000 wolves in more than 28 countries. other members of the royal family, including females, also hunted wolves. Louis the Dauphin, son of Louis XIV, loved wolf hunting and is said to have killed a thousand wolves. I think that the favorite prey around Versailles was wolves. The palace and town of Versailles, 12 miles from Paris, was based on a hunting lodge built by King Louis XIII, father of Louis XIV, in 1623, and replaced with a small chateau in 1631-1634. The larger and more dangerous the animal, the greater the probability that he would eventually be killed by one of his prey animals. So it is theoretically possible for your boy character to hunt and kill just about any land animal. People do hunt elephants successfully with bows, and on the other hand professional elephant hunting, even using elephant guns, was or is a very dangerous job with a high fatality rate. If you boy has a powerful enough bow, and is strong enough to use it, and experienced in using it, he could hunt just about anything, or perhaps accidentially encounter just about anything when hunting something smaller and safer, and be forced to shoot the unexpected critter to save his own life. And I don't know if it would be a good idea to clearly describe how big and strong he is. So possibly some readers will imagine that your boy is much bigger and stronger than other readers imagine him. At one extreme someone can be a child in age and a man in size and physical development, & at another extreme someone can be a man in age and a child in size and physical development. One fact about humans is that they grow at varying rates. If you describe your boy rather vaguely, different readers will imagine him differently, and if your story become popular, might draw him differently. I note that if you describe your boy precisely, that may be offputting to some readers. I assume that your story is supposed to be set in Eruope roughly about 1500 instead of in Asia, Africa, or the Americas. ![]()
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