Wolves Kill Prized Quarter Horse in Darby, Montana
Posted on 01/07/2022 2:33:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
Park Superintendent Cam Sholly first raised concerns last September about wolves dying near the park border
Twenty of Yellowstone National Park's renowned gray wolves roamed from the park and were shot by hunters in recent months — the most killed by hunting in a single season since the predators were reintroduced to the region more than 25 years ago, according to park officials.
Fifteen wolves were shot after roaming across the park's northern border into Montana, according to figures released to The Associated Press. Five more died in Idaho and Wyoming.
Park officials said in a statement to AP that the deaths mark “a significant setback for the species’ long-term viability and for wolf research." One pack — the Phantom Lake Pack — is now considered “eliminated” after most or all of its members were killed over a two-month span beginning in October, according to the park.
(Excerpt) Read more at ksbw.com ...
Wolves kill for the thrill.
Not just for food
Moose survives.
See how the wolf keeps at it despite being stomped.
Northern Ontario Moose vs Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akGWOpcWfrQ
Lol
Made me chuckle in bed at 3am
“ Have you a problem when ranchers turn donkeys out with their cattle and the donkeys kill the wolves?”
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Would you have a problem should a donkey kill you? 😂
Re: 74 - Wolves like other predators do engage in surplus kills. I never said they didn’t.
You using anthropomorphic terms (”kill for sport”, “blood lust”) to describe surplus killing demonstrates an embarrassingly ignorant knowledge of wolf ecology.
Send along the scientific studies you claim that show wolves kill for “blood lust” and “sport”.
Have no problem with population control of wolves. Nice picture BTW.
Have a problem with people suggesting that an apex predator should be eradicated. We’ve been down that road before - see Kaibab deer population irruptions in the 1920s and late 1940s that followed reductions in predation. The predators and prey are different but the end result is the same.
In the case of the Kaibab herd, predation was primarily by cougar and coyote with the method of taking deer different vs. wolves. But the end result is the same, remove large amounts of predators, the deer herd is more apt to increase beyond the carrying capacity of the area. Or in other words, predation limits the density of low deer populations; and food limits the density of high deer populations.
We have to learn that lesson time after time, year after deer, with some people wanting predators reduced without understanding the downstream consequences, and some wildlife officials recklessly and without good data introducing predators into an area, again without adequately understanding the downstream consequences.
Back at 'ya - how do you know they are happy? You some kind of wolf shrink?
First - it is not a Yellowstone wolf, if it isn’t in Yellowstone.
Second - wolves are not an endangered species.
With those minor mistakes corrected, please continue.
Good they are a menace which is why they were wiped out the first time.
Uh, That's because we got rid of the wolves.
Rifle carrying farmers that shoot wolves on their property in Montana are snowflakes according to dandyboy. Wow - that is rich.
I invite you to tell that to them face to face, instead of from your condo in dupont circle or some such place.
Okay Furry, out of the variety of reasons for killing that you cite, what reason would you claim for charismatic wolves killing these 19 elk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZMvzS4O6r8
Why?
Are you dandy’s online wing chick, to make it look like there is a consensus behind her crazy viewpoint?
She sent them to the train station....LOL!
There’s a Montana or Wyoming blogger who posted a number of photos of elk that were killed by wolves just for fun. He also had a photo of a wolf pack that numbered over twenty of the animals.
Wolves Kill Prized Quarter Horse in Darby, Montana
According to the article, there were only 3 wolves involved.
See my last post
Wow. Wiped out a herd.
And some don’t understand the state does everything possible to avoid paying compensation.
The Stone woman in the article tried to say wolves don’t kill like that but bears and cougars do. What a maroon!
Tree huggers and “fauna” lovers need to spend some time living amongst the critters they love so much. Like that guy and girl in Alaska that got eaten by the grizzlies they were so fond of. At least they showed some commitment
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