Wolf (Canis lupus)

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(02-22-2020, 07:05 AM)peter Wrote:

(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?

Welcome to the forum. Involved in wolves in some way?

That "occasional calf" what comes to inland brown bears looks odd for me, I have to say. There are several scientific studies confirming, that bears are active hunters at certain times and kill adult moose, moose calves, deers and deer calves. I just talked last summer with local farmers and hunters here where I live and discussed about bears living in the woods here. They said, that since there are so many deers nowadays in these woods, bears and wolves have followed. When they count how many moose and deer they can hunt, they have to calculate also, that how many bears and wolves are on the area since they have to be counted in and how many animals they hunt and kill. Idea is to keep moose and deer populations in good condition, so in areas with a lot of bears and/or wolves, they can´t shoot as many as in areas with no predators. Here it´s estimated, that almost 1/3 of bear diet is meat, moose and deer naturally main prey animals.

What comes to wolves and salmon, that is interesting, but then again bears are in some way unique when compared to other bigger predators since they hibernate and can eat practically everything except rocks :) Reply