BELOVED YELLOWSTONE WOLF'S KILLING BY TROPHY HUNTER

[Diamondback]

Hi fives and congrats to the hunter who accomplished this.

https://www.newsweek.com/beloved-ye...hy-hunter-just-outside-protected-park-1242406

Leave the NP to roam and prey on pets and livestock = bullet to end the marauding wolf. That is just in their nature. They kill to survive, but will conflict with man.

 

[Hand Skills]

The Grey wolf we see today is of average weight between 80-150 pounds for a male and 60 - 100 pounds for a female...it's only an average..wolves in the wild can live up to 16 yrs.

Depending on region and pressure and food source much larger wolves can be found..that's a given.

I have actively trapped over 40 yrs..even though the return is greatly reduced compared to when I started and have harvested wolves at both ends of the spectrum of weight and ages.

I regularly turn in jaw bones and other materials for testing and the biologists, give me a rundown on the approximate ages and I weigh the animals..this is more for my edification than anything.

So when I say easily weigh 80 lbs plus, I kind lump all the ages and male and female averages together...I do have to type this out and I am not writing a white paper for peer review...which the majority of the posters here would find overly boring.....

Interesting, thanks for following up. Given your location this gives creedence to the idea that Timber wolves from Jasper area are a bit larger than the average Gray wolf, even though they are the same species.

 

[RockyMtnMT]

Alaskan brown bear is the same animal as a grizzly. The Alaskan has much greater food source allowing/promoting larger size.

This is my understanding.

 

[26Reload]

Many variations in the same species exist allover the world....
Does every bear in the wild grow to the same exact size at the same exact age....hell no....some smallish(less than 100#) black bears have been passed up because hunters thought they were to young to shoot....well at the taxidermy shop I worked the "tooth tells no lies"....one bear came in at 97# and was an old female..19 years old....been interesting to know whether she ever had cubs.....that grew up to 400#....
Wolves aren't any different...but do you really believe the alpha is only gonna weigh 97# and rule a pack..........remember the old muscle building advertisement...97# weakling at beach and used weights to get bigger and buffer to rule the beach.....yeah...right....

 

[Hand Skills]

Alaskan brown bear is the same animal as a grizzly. The Alaskan has much greater food source allowing/promoting larger size.

This is my understanding.

Could extending this way of thinking explain the reports of 'larger' wolves after the reintroduction? It might be reaching, but given where the wolves came from perhaps there' some something to it..?

 

[RockyMtnMT]

Could extending this way of thinking explain the reports of 'larger' wolves after the reintroduction? It might be reaching, but given where the wolves came from perhaps there' some something to it..?

I used to buy this idea that they went and caught a bunch of giant freak wolves that were double the size of the little timber wolf that we once had. To my knowledge there is no proof of this.

 

[Hand Skills]

Ya, Im talking about a 20% difference in size. Hard to imagine where the other 80% comes from.

 

[26Reload]

Somewhere on here somebody posted about the odd critter killed by the rancher.....
At first they didnt know what it was and then came back and said it was the "real wolf" of local terrain....
Big differences between the northern and that little guy on the tailgate.....

 

[RockyMtnMT]

Somewhere on here somebody posted about the odd critter killed by the rancher.....
At first they didnt know what it was and then came back and said it was the "real wolf" of local terrain....
Big differences between the northern and that little guy on the tailgate.....

Killed in the same area that the monster genetic freak wolves live and killed what was left of the lowly native timber wolf...

 

[26Reload]

So some unbeknowing cattle rancher killed a critter looking at his stock...and the critter not able to take down a yearling calf by itself...
And the government knew this critter still existed...yet let the last one die just like the Tasmanian Tiger.......or the last of the Mohicans.....great insight...and always proud of the past idiot presidents.....

 

[Jr1972]

Could be Bergmann's rule? Animals get bigger the closer they are to the poles and further from the equator. Just look at the whitetail. 100 pounders down south and 300 pounders in Canada.

 

[RockyMtnMT]

Could be Bergmann's rule? Animals get bigger the closer they are to the poles and further from the equator. Just look at the whitetail. 100 pounders down south and 300 pounders in Canada.

Just think if someone caught some of those 300 pounders and took them down south they would dominate and take over everything.

Couldn't help it.

 

[nerka83]

There is a buffer zone around the park. It's clearley marked, used to hunt pretty close to it up a place called Taylor's Fork just south of Big Sky. It was **** good hunting till the wolves came along. The Lamar drainage is in the north Central part of the park if memory is correct.

Check this video out, it's pretty accurate.

 

[yoteslayer]

Give the guy a metal you really think the wolves are going stay inside of the buffer zone lol bunch of dumb asses