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Bear and grey wolf interractions in the wild

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Bear and grey wolf interractions in the wild

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07-31-2019, 02:37 PM ( This post was last modified: 07-31-2019, 02:44 PM by Shadow )

(07-31-2019, 02:25 PM)Roberto Wrote:
(07-31-2019, 01:19 PM)Shadow Wrote:
(07-31-2019, 02:58 AM)Roberto Wrote: This is from the department of evolution, ecology, and behavior of the university of Minnesota. They described how an adult grizzly bear usurped a bison calf kill from a pack of 5 wolves. Also, during competition for carcasses, in general, the wolves are the losers and the bears the gainers.

https://qcnr.usu.edu/labs/macnulty_lab/f...202001.pdf

Most difficult situations are when there is mother bear with small cubs. In those cases it´s not easy for bears. Especially if there are no trees nearby where mother could command cubs to climb to safety so, that it could focus only to wolves.

Yes thats true. Anyways, mother bears do pretty good. There are
Barely any cubs killed by wolves.

[video=youtube]https://https://youtu.be/Hvm6d-uj1qo[/video]

They do decently, but cubs naturally get killed time to time. Wolves are no joke if some cub is too far away for some reason. Of course many other reasons like accidents and male bears are reason to many deaths. But that situation on that video is a nightmare for mother bear, open terrain and no safe places nearby. Can only fight and hope, that wolves get fed up for some reason. And that cubs stay close all the time, not trying to flee in panic. One thing favoring bears in this was, that those cubs weren´t smallest possible, not easy to grab one and run for wolves, when mother there. In such situation, if wolf would try to grab that big cub, mother would most probably be able to land a swipe with paw.
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