Bear and grey wolf interractions in the wild

[Shadow]

(07-31-2019, 04:09 PM)Roberto Wrote: Yes Shadow, that famous video of the large grizzly stealing the kill from 14 wolves. The wolves dont even try. Fortunately, there are some videos of the interactions between bears and wolves. But no videos of interactions between Siberian tigers and Ussuri brown bears. Yellowstone enviroment is much easier for people to be there and film. Wolves get alot of kills stolen by grizzly bears, in some regions, basically every kill is stolen between march and october as Smith said. The wolves unable to stop it as they would lose some pack members, hence its not worth it.

That happens vice versa too, wolves can be also very bold and shamelessly harass even quite big male bears, if they are young and inexperienced. One bites behind and when bear turns around, there is another one biting it. Even though bear can take a lot of punishment, some of these bears get confused and all the time turning to different directions, while wolves circle around and use their better agility. Especially when this happens in swamp, bear can be soon leaving the place... intimidated, irritated, tired, whatever the reason is. More experienced bears can simply walk there, like in that video from Yellowstone, lie down and show with all presence, that "I won´t move and you can´t intimidate me". In those cases even wolf packs give up immediately or very soon when noticing, that this bear isn´t going to act like a chicken without head :)

Like all animals, also bears need experience to be able to handle most difficult situations successfully. When you watch different videos, it´s easy to see, when there is a young one without a clue what to do. Not in danger so much, but pride can be hurt badly Reply