[6ppc]

I would agree, but I’m pretty sure the released wolves have GPS trackers.

[TangoLimaSierra]

I would agree, but I’m pretty sure the released wolves have GPS trackers.

Kill the wolf. Remove the tracker and throw it in the nearest river.

Poor thing must have drowned.

[SaxxonWoods]

Yes, they do.

[verum ago]

I would agree, but I’m pretty sure the released wolves have GPS trackers.

The animal can be separated from the collar that the tracker is on.

That said, if they've got any biometric telemetry, they might be able to tell if it's still alive in more or less real time. So yeah, probably better not to risk it.

Sorta related anecdote: once upon I time I worked for a state Fish and Game agency. We had some radio tagged (just a short range pinger, not GPS) stocker trout as part of a study to find out where they were moving around to and what was eating them other than people. Since the radio tags had a long battery life and were kinda pricy, we routinely recovered them when we could for reuse. (The pinger would change from a 2 digit to a 3 digit code if stationary for more than a preset amount of time, which was an 'I'm dead' signal, so we knew when to triangulate and recover them). There was one particular cormorant colony that the tags kept showing up at.

Well, one night under cover of a thunderstorm some guy went and blasted all the cormorants he could at the colony, after first disabling the two trail cams we had pointed it- he even stuck a a taunting note in front of the cameras before pulling the battery, but left the SD card so we could see his taunts. He'd definitely scouted the cameras first, because it wasn't easy to approach one without the other capturing his face, but he pulled it off. He also trashed a couple fixed radio receivers we had. He additionally recovered all his empty shells too.

So, after this happened, noting that there were no radio pings from the colony when we would expect several, we simply went to the nearest town and drove around with our Yagi antenna out the truck window until we found a house with 6 radio tags pinging away from inside of it. At that point the matter was turned over to law enforcement. I never did hear what the end result was.

The guy was clever enough to do it at night, during thunder, hide his face, and recover his empties...

...but greedy enough to snag the radio tags in hope of selling them, without stopping to think they might still be doing exactly what they were designed to do.

[desertsolitaire]

And the sane state officials who can’t be bothered to even warn cattle ranchers that a known, calf-killing GPS tracked wolf is nearby them, would certainly go to extremes to investigate and punish ranchers who make the wolf “disappear”.

[SPDSHDW]

Cut the collar and dump it in a nice river. As long as these trackers don’t monitor heart rates or other biometrics, it’ll be too late to find out.

[Glad2bnuts]

Dead animal, access to GPS.