Would you do anything for love? It’s a claim that Meatloaf made quite passionately, but who among us can really say we’d walk 1,000 miles simply on the off chance of finding love? Even The Proclaimers could only last 500, but I can tell you of at least one individual: Slavc, the Eurasian wolf. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

In 2011, Slavc stunned scientists when – seemingly unprompted – he decided to ditch his family and embark on a 1,600-kilometer (1,000-mile) journey through the Alps, tackling treacherous terrain and extreme weather to arrive north of Verona in Italy. It was a part of the world that hadn’t seen wolves for a century, and then, that all changed.

Slavc’s journey led him to Juliet, a female wolf. As l

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