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Similarly, they are far from "killing everything in their path".

Then explain this. This was done in one small little hunting area, they didn't even eat them. They left them to rot. Some of them had to be shot to be put out of their misery because they were still alive when the hunter found them.

This is repeated around the Northwest where these killers have been released more times than the left will admit. Read the accounts of Freepers who have been eye witness to these monsters. Like I said, in the lower 48 they should be exterminated, not supported and increased.

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There's a difference between "killing everything in their paths" and a natural hunting instinct.

I have seen grays take out three bison calves in a row although the pack could only get rid of 1 1/2 afterwards. The reason was (a) the pack was so large that it couldn't communicate and agree on a single target (it split while the hunt was on) and (b) when the hunting frenzy developed it was impossible to stop them. Human behavior is quite similar by the way. Think of the buffalo eradication in the 1800s. After some trophy bulls were taken sometimes shooting frenzies developed just to kill and the carcasses were also left to rot on the prairie. Or the Japs in Nanking during the war. And so forth. It's a predatory instinct. Ever seen a henhouse after a nightly visit by a raccoon? Nothing left alive, yet only one bird taken away. Housecat empty a golf fish pond? Same story.

Yet, you can have an entire pack play with the pups for four hours while deer stand in visible range. You can see buffalo grazing right beside a resting pack. In fact, as a human you can even acquaint with a pack and get fairly close.

So, hunting instinct, yes. Killing everything in their paths, definitely not.

But allow me to make one concession: there are such things as marauding packs. They don't have a territory or develop a proper pack hierarchy and are often lacking alpha wolves. They are rogue packs that do indeed spend the entire day travelling and hunting. But that's not a wolf pack just like a marauding drug gang is not an assembly of human beings.