Wolf (Canis lupus)

[peter]

(02-21-2020, 02:57 AM)TheNormalGuy Wrote:

(02-15-2018, 09:48 AM)peter Wrote:

(02-15-2018, 05:48 AM)Sully Wrote: Interesting, was shocked reading that 90% of their food comes from the ocean

http://themindcircle.com/swimming-sea-wolves/

First time I heard about sea wolves. Great photographs. 

Brown bears involved in salmon are larger than everywhere else. Polar bears doing blubber also are very large. Sea wolves, on the other hand, are smaller than relatives involved in deer. Remarkable.

The Alexander Archipelago Wolf is the one feeding on salmon. This prey item make this species pups one of greatest in pup suvivorship (with 90% of the pups surviving their first year, amongst the leader in this domain among the grey wolf specie).

They weigh between 14 and 21 kg and stand about 0.61m tall at the shoulder.

So brown bears involved in salmon outweigh their inland relatives living on vegetables and the occasional calf by a margin, whereas wolves feeding on salmon are quite a bit smaller than wolves involved in meat? Remarkable. Could it be that size in wolves is related to the size of the animals they hunt?    

Weightwise, Alexander wolves almost compare to coyotes. Anything known about interactions between these wolves and other predators?

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