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Swedish boys find dead wolf frozen in lake ice
Dec 30, 2008, 6:56 GMT
Stockholm - Two 10-year-old boys made a strange discovery Monday when they found a dead wolf frozen in the ice of a lake in central Sweden, reports said Tuesday.
Oscar Widmark and Victor Nordlund were ice-fishing with Victor's father Mikael Nordlund and uncle Thomas Nordlund when they spotted what looked like a furry seat cover in the ice of lake Gryten.
Victor's father and uncle drilled holes into the ice, and were able to free the remains of the wolf. They alerted police, who transported the carcass to Vasteras, 100 kilometres west of Stockholm.
'It was a really big wolf, weighing well over 50 kilos,' police spokesman Thomas Gustafsson told local radio.
Gustafsson said the wolf looked unharmed and had likely died after falling into the lake in early December when the ice sheet was thin.
The dead animal was to undergo tests at the National Veterinary Institute in Uppsala.
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