Posted on 03/29/2012 3:12:16 PM PDT by Nachum
They are related to the domestic dog, which many of us live with side-by-side each day.
But despite their friendly relations, wolves are not known for getting on quite so well with humans.
Often living in the wilderness, they are fearsome predators which can bring down animals twice their size.
But as these incredible images show, they clearly have a softer side.
When a woman - known only as Anita - returned to the pack of wolves which she had socialised with for two years they reacted with sheer delight.
As she sat in the snow, the four wolves raced down a hillside towards her - something which would normally strike terror in any human being.
But rather than looking for something to eat, the wolves simply wanted to be reunited with the woman they obviously adore.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
That surprises me, even if it’s at Yellowstone, and especially if it isn’t. Wolves are similar in some ways to “wild Malamutes” (and the same size) so I guess its possible with some of them to be like that. I expect wolves to sense people and get out of the area even before people would notice they are there. Personally, I’d love to see a wolf from a distance. I’d watch it, leave it alone, respect it, and avoid a close encounter that can harm either of us. Hopefully I can get to Isle Royale in a couple of years and catch them and the moose.
Not really. You can’t socialize with a bear the same as a pack of wolves. Bears are solitary mostly and they can’t grow up with you in a pack as there are no bear packs. Anything else that is a pack animal it can be possible. Geese, wild turkeys, etc can all accept a person to a degree as one of their own.
I don’t see them at my place, but I sometimes hear them. “Yelp, yelp, yelp, yelp.”
Wild turkeys run when they see me. For some reason, they don’t want to be the next family Thanksgiving meal.
Well then smart people like you can start with Wikipedia:
It sounds bad out of context, but starvation is a function of the available range carrying capacity.
That is an oversimplification to the point of uselessness. Wolves do kill for sport. They do kill each other for territorial reasons. Yet territorial conflict rises when food becomes more scarce. So you can take your BS up with Mech because he's the top wolf biologist in the country. The Coronation Island experiment showed that wolves will eat the last breeding female when they have depleted the land of game. Without a predator of wolves or virtually unlimited territory, that's what they do.
Wolf is not the preferred diet of the wolf.
Correct. However, when the "preferred diet" is depleted they do eat each other, especially because they grow in population by some 25-35% per year without external regulation. Here in the US the higher number is the rule because 75% of what they eat, by weight, is cattle. As long as that is the case, there will be sufficient wolves to extirpate some of their prey species (it's called a "predator pit," in a multi-prey environment, so I suggest you Google some of Tom Bergerud's papers and read them). In some cases it means that certain species may become endangered, which is where we are getting with caribou. The main reason in Alaska is that the Park Service will not budge from its idiotic "natural regulation" policy and has therefore excluded from the system its apex predator for the last 10,000 years: The American Indian.
On the other hand there are strong arguments that man killing man is the most natural behavior.
You clearly don't get it about what happens when you presume that nature is self-regulating on a continent shaped by humans. Canis lupis followed the bison across the Bering land bridge, its predecessor (Canis dirus) having been extirpated by man. There are some very interesting palynological arguments suggesting the bison had to have been driven, the straits at that time lacked sufficient food for them to cross on their own. It is not known whether the wolf was desired or reviled at that time, but they sure did make good fur coats.
Go back to the Farly Mowat School of wildlife biology where you belong. You do know that he made up the whole story in Never Cry Wolf, don't you?
Isn’t that amazing? She obviously made an impression. I’m glad Deks found her.
I’m surprised it took that many paragraphs to prove my argument.
Yes, she was remembered and in all fairness we should ping her to this thread as she would probably enjoy it. Hope so anyway!
lmao
Yeah.. A little too much excitement for the wolfies.. The pack leader wasn’t pleased.
This was a fascinating episode of the Dog Whisperer meets Wolf Whisperer..
http://www.hulu.com/watch/184032/dog-whisperer-honoring-the-wolf
I think I did ping her in one of those posts.....hope she is still around!
I do too Catherine. Thought I checked her posts and she was here in early March......but maybe it was a year ago??
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