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 (03-16-2020, 11:32 AM)Spalea Wrote: Ronan Donovan: " Project Leader, Doug Smith, of the Yellowstone Wolf Project approaches the carcass of a dead wolf. This wolf was the alpha male of the Mollie's wolf pack in Pelican Valley. 6 months earlier, I photographed this same wolf being collared (see photo @natgeo). He was killed by a large bull elk during a hunt - likely kicked in the head during the chase (I'll post a photo of this elk soon). Elk cause 15% of the mortality to wolves in Yellowstone - a testament to the strength of elk that can weigh 5-10 times a wolf. Wolves also don't have the benefit of claws, like cats, and only have their teeth to use for grabbing - putting their heads in danger of getting kicked by their prey. It was 980M
The Druid Peak Pack Dominant Breeding Wolves ["Alphas"] History [1996-2010]
Duration : 5 min 36 s
The video of 5 minutes 36 seconds showcase all the dominant breeding pairs ["Alphas"] in The Druid Peak History
Yellowstone Wolf Project Annual Reports :
Story of 253M :
Picture of 480M :
Pictures of 755M :
Other sources consulted :
"Charting Yellowstone Wolves (25th Anniversary)" by James Halfpenny, Leo Leckie & Shauna Baron. NUNAVUT WOLF MORPHOLOGY AND DIET STUDY
Julia Krizan Wildlife Research Section, Department of Environment,
P.O. Box 209, Igloolik, NU X0A 0L0
2006
Goal and objectives of the studies : Study skulls in every ways. Quote:In 1999, Wildlife Officers and Hunters and Trappers Associations (HTAs) across Nunavut were contacted and informed that the Department of Sustainable Development – Nunavut Wildlife Service (now: Department of the Environment –Nunavut Wildlife Management Division) is reimbursing hunters if they return skulls of harvested wolves. The requirement was that each specimen had to be labeled with: kill date, location, sex of animal and name of hunter. Labels and information material on the study were provided. Returned skulls were inventoried and kept frozen until processed. 228 skulls were recovered between 1999 and 2002. There was also a part about the diet of the wolves, where these species were predated : Arctic Fox Arctic Ground Squirrel Arctic Hare Caribou Collared Lemming Musk oxen Red-Backed Vole Link : NUNAVUT WOLF MORPHOLOGY AND DIET STUDY (2006) For the skull lovers, they measured 54 aspects of the skull of a wolf. Page 11 of the link
Caribou Spot Wolves Using UV Vision | Animal Super Senses | BBC
Duration : 3 min 38 s Quote:"Reindeers are often pursued by wolves in Alaska but they have a brilliant secret that allows them to see wolves coming. Taken from Animal Super Senses." Note : The UV vision | The bright white snow and ice is reflected while the wolf fur is absorbed. This makes a gray/white wolf black to caribous eyes as far as i saw and understood in that video. Pretty interesting This Week is Wolf Awareness Week !
Make sure to let people know about those majestic and important animals !
 Yellowstone Wolf Collaring Information (2003 - 2019) by Christophe Boucher/me on Monday, October 26 2020
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Here is a perfect example of what not to do and how certain human behaviors can greatly affect wolves. It features Wolf 21M.
Quote:"During a busy Memorial Day weekend, Druid alpha male 21M was trying to return to the pack’s den with food from a carcass. As he approached the road near the den, visitors drove to the likely crossing point and stopped to photograph him. Due to the cars blocking his route, the wolf backed off, went west, and tried to cross at another point. Source : An Small Portion of the article : A Peak Life Experience : Watching Wolves in Yellowstone National Park [Rick McIntyre] p.44-46 [Below, My comments on this as i compare it to a frustrating human situation] Situation : Wolf with food -------> Bringing food to pups at the den site. Obstacle : Road with people stopping right where you want to cross. As if i walk, and someone deliberately steps in front of me and stay there. Then, i stepped aside & try to go to my destination & yet again, someone steps in front of me and stops. Quote: Gray wolves to be reintroduced to Colorado in unprecedented vote (November 5, 2010)
Voters narrowly approved a ballot initiative to reintroduce wolves into the southern Rockies, where there's plenty of suitable habitat. Voters in the state narrowly approved a ballot initiative, Proposition 114, paving the way for gray wolves to be reintroduced into Colorado, where they were hunted to extinction by the 1940s.
Quote:"This is the first time a state has voted to reintroduce an animal to the ecosystem." The Colorado Parks and Wildlife department will lead the effort to establish a sustainable population of the animals in the western part of the state beginning in 2022 or 2023. The Southern Rocky Mountains contain millions of acres of suitable habitat—where wolves once thrived—land that could support several hundred wolves or more, biologists say.
Opponents of the initiative conceded they had lost on November 5, but the vote was close: As of Thursday afternoon, with 90 percent of the votes in, there were 1,495,523 votes for and 1,475,235 against. But most of the remaining uncounted votes come from urban areas that strongly support reintroduction. Quote:“Reintroducing wolves will restore Colorado's natural balance,” Supporters say it’s especially timely, since the federal government removed Endangered Species Act protections for the animals in the contiguous U.S. in late October. (Learn more: Gray wolves taken off U.S. endangered species list in controversial move.) The Colorado reintroduction initiative was opposed by many in rural areas, including ranchers, who worry that wolves will kill their cattle. Many of these opponents have objected to leaving the question of reintroduction to voters, rather than state wildlife officials. Shawn Martini, spokesperson for Coloradans for Protecting Wildlife, which opposes the initiative, says state biologists have previously declined to introduce wolves. Quote:“This is the first time that any species would be introduced via the ballot box, and there's a reason it's never been done before—direct democracy certainly has its limits,” he says. Research has shown gray wolves have benefits for the environment, though their reintroduction is controversial, and routinely opposed by many livestock owners. Some hunters also opposed the measure for fear of losing elk to the predators, though in the Northern Rockies, records show wolves have not impacted elk harvests. Lone wolves Wolves once ranged over most of North America but were nearly wiped out by the early 20th century in the contiguous U.S. by widespread hunting, trapping, and poisoning, much of it government-sponsored, with only a small population hanging on in the Great Lakes region. They were placed on the Endangered Species List in the 1970s, and in 1995 and 1996 the federal government reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone National Park and Idaho. From there the animals spread to Montana, Washington State, Oregon, and northern California. But wolves still haven’t established a permanent population in Colorado. There’s also a formidable distance of several hundred miles between the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the Colorado state line—and wolves that attempt to travel south can be killed in Wyoming, where it’s legal to kill them throughout 85 percent of the state without restriction. In January, a small wolf pack was seen in northwestern Colorado, but several of their members were shot when crossing back into Wyoming. Besides that pack, a few more lone wolves have been spotted in Colorado since the 1990s, but not enough to repopulate the state. TYPE: Mammals DIET: Carnivore GROUP NAME: Pack AVERAGE LIFE SPAN IN THE WILD: 6 to 8 years SIZE: Head and body: 36 to 63 inches; tail: 13 to 20 inches WEIGHT: 40 to 175 pounds POPULATION TREND: Stable IUCN RED LIST STATUS: Least concern “Almost every one we can account for has died or left,” says Joel Berger, a wildlife ecologist at Colorado State University. Though some scientists have made the argument that it would be better for wolves to recolonize Colorado naturally, “we've waited for 25 years,” Berger says. “It’s unlikely to happen soon.” Berger, who wasn’t directly involved in the reintroduction initiative, is excited about the prospect of “a connected population of wolves, from Canada down to Mexico” that will help the species maintain genetic diversity as they reclaim their former habitat. Long-term, wolves have a good chance of moving beyond Colorado—for example, into New Mexico. That could lead to the introduction of new genes into the endangered and inbred population of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico, explains Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, an organization also involved in passing the ballot initiative. Robinson has been pushing for wolf reintroduction in Colorado for decades. Wolf benefits The livestock industry, some hunting groups, and the Colorado Farm Bureau rallied against the measure, which was supported largely by voters in urban areas. Martini stresses that the majority of rural residents in western Colorado have opposed the measure, whereas supportive urban voters won’t have to live alongside the animals, a scenario he considers unfair. But conservationists point to the beneficial role of wolves as apex predators and keystone species. They help thin out sick animals, maintaining healthy populations of deer and elk, thus limiting overgrazing and erosion, Proctor says. By killing and competing with coyotes, wolves can support higher populations of other small carnivores, including foxes. And the remains of wolf kills also provide food for many scavengers, including endangered wolverines, eagles, and bears, Robinson says. Proctor also emphasizes that “the experience of living with wolves in other places, like the Northern Rockies, has shown that wolves are not the threat people sometimes make them out to be.” Reintroduction program biologists will make it a priority to work with people who live alongside wolves, for example providing training and resources for ranchers to help prevent wolves from preying on cattle in the first place, Proctor adds. “Colorado has the chance to be better than the other states,” he says, “by being inclusive.” Source : Gray wolves to be reintroduced to Colorado in unprecedented vote (National Geographic, Nov 5, 2020) Yellowstone Wolf Fact [Breeding]
Duration : 37 s
The first of many short & simple videos based on factual informations from the Yellowstone Wolf Project Annual Reports. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Le premier de plusieurs petits vidéo simples basé sur des faits provenant des Rapport Annuels du Projet des Loups de Yellowstone ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Informations given in the video : - Breeding Period [Month of the year] - Birthing/Birth of the pups [Month of the year] - Gestation Length [Duration of the pregnancy] - Litter Size [Number of pups born by gestation] - Average Litter Size [Mean number of pups born by gestation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Information présenté dans ce vidéo : - Période D'accouplement [Mois de l'année] - Mise Bas/Naissance des louveteaux [Mois de l'année] - Durée de la gestation/Combien de temps la maman porte elle le bébé dans son ventre - Nombre de louveteaux nés par portée - Nombre de louveteaux nés par portée en moyenne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sources of these informations/Références : Yellowstone Wolf Science : https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/upload... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy the video ! Bon Visionnement ! YNP Wolf Lover 
I have only one question in this case - I cant understand the difference between wolf and coyote..?
 (11-10-2020, 10:18 PM)ericmiles Wrote: I have only one question in this case - I cant understand the difference between wolf and coyote..? Basic information is easy to find if you make some google search, so I don´t start to write here some unnecessary long answer. But different species even though close relatives. Coyote is like "slim wolf", somewhat smaller, but when you look at weight a coyote is roughly 1/3 in comparison with wolf. Roughly like that even though especially in photos some coyotes can look a lot like wolves, they are clearly that "smaller cousin" and wolf is dominant species, when these two species encounter. (11-11-2020, 03:43 PM)Shadow Wrote:(11-10-2020, 10:18 PM)ericmiles Wrote: I have only one question in this case - I cant understand the difference between wolf and coyote..? Thanks for your answer. I also researched in google and found this review https://differencebtwn.com/difference-between-coyote-vs-wolf I just watch a video with Carter Niermeyer, Doug Smith & Rick McIntyre.
They talked about an alaskan pack named East Fork that had a longevity [pack] of over 70 years.
That's Insane !
The Leopold Pack History [February 1996 - 2008] Duration : 6 min 17 seconds
My Favorite Yellowstone Pack ! The video of 6 minutes 17 seconds showcase all the dominant breeding pairs ["Alphas"] in the Leopold Pack History. In The Legacy Portion of The Video, only packs formed by direct descendants of the pack will be showcased except one exception. There were other pack members that joined others packs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My sources of informations : Yellowstone Wolf Project Annual Reports : https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolf-reports.htm Yellowstone Photo Collection : https://www.nps.gov/features/yell/slidefile/index.htm Sarcoptic mange severity is associated with reduced genomic variation and evidence of selection in Yellowstone National Park wolves (Canis lupus) : Alexandra L. DeCandia, Edward C. Schrom, Ellen E. Brandell, Daniel R. Stahler & Bridgett M. vonHoldt First published: 10 September 2020 Books : "Charting Yellowstone Wolves (25th Anniversary)" by James Halfpenny, Leo Leckie & Shauna Baron --------------------------------------------------- Cette vidéo présente les pairs de loups dominant dans l'histoire de la meute de Leopold [Nommée après Aldo Leopold] --------------------------------------------------- Enjoy the video ! Bon Visionnement ! ------------------------------------- |
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