OT: Wolf Watch - Page 6

Maybe you would suggest that the wolf preserves the meat by smoking it and making sausages?
THat is funny...I can see a cartoon of that in my head.

This is how it goes...and I have noticed this for my self and have seen it on National Geographics.( I do educate my self)
THe less wolves the more coyote...that means.....more elk and other big prey....less small prey..rabbits,prarie dogs, squirrels....and that means that the raptors(the ones that hunt) are SOL with food cause the coyote have eaten it all. (along with the bobcats and fox) So with the wolves,they keep others in check as they have killed coyote when on their turf. I have noticed out here when hunting with my friend and his hawk. There aren't that many cotton tails or jacks to catch. I remember when there were bunnies galore and I would see or hear the calls of  hawks in the sky. I don't see so many anymore.

Good God Lauren....you've become...( Miss Beast Master!) hahahaha!
Where are you living?.....in the home of the Waltons?   Witch Mountain?
I thought.......where I live was rural..... now...not so much!

Mindhunt-That's cool...they are quite the masters in Mongolia.I have seen a Golden Eagle take a deer(much smaller then ones here)My friends Harris Hawk...I love this bird.He lets me handle him and I would have him fly to me in the training.Would love to be a master falconer and have a Golden Eagle...but if you get footed by them OUCH it hurts more then a Harris or a Red Tail.(those would be my choice to fly)
 
LOL Robin,Yes I am the Beast Master lol I am in AZ...Central where the weather is perfect. If you are ever out this way come and visit.

I don't remember the source, but this foodchain diagram was made in a Yellowstone National Park study (one of the annual reports, I think) about four or five years ago.  Those birds will eat it all, so I wouldn't worry too much about them.  The wolves don't even habitate the areas where pronghorn roam, but coyotes do.  So, I think that increased pressure from wolves onto coyotes, and coyotes onto prongorn, has pushed some of the pronghorn out of their preferred habitat.  Although, the current issue of National Geographic magazine puts a very different slant on the increase of pronghorn in the park. 

I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooo jealous......warm, perfect weather.......

Hey Prager, whaddya figure this one weighs?

Nice. But  I thought that Wyoming was The Cowboy State.  My favored state. I lived there 8 years.
Prager Hans

They changed it.  Times change, and y'know "real" cowboys are gettin to be more of a rarity, and they couldn't call it "The Balanced State" with the oversaturated wolf populations.

I do not understand  the food chain diagram. What are the links representing?  Why there is not link between Bald Eagle and trout? He eats trout.  Then there is a connection between trout and human but not between human and Bear and so on. And if thats mean that human eats trout but not bear(I have eaten bear though) what does the link for example between eagle and black bear mean. Logically it should then mean that the eagle eats bear? I know it probably means that eagle eats what bear and so on left behind as a carcases. But that is different bear and  let say bison link is but it is marked as the same connection. What ever. Very schizophrenic.
Prager Hans
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