Diane K. Boyd
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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There's oftentimes one or two that aren't related. And they defend that territory to the death, whether there's five of them or 25 of them. And that would be a large pack. The largest pack I've ever heard of was in Yellowstone. I think it was 34 because three females had pups in it.
What's the benefit to them? They're gathering, collaborating with animals that aren't related to them, that have no genetic benefit, to see them each survive. And normally... packs that are not related kill each other. It's the biggest cause of mortality in Yellowstone Park is wolves killing non-pack members.
Oh, I know.
I get what you're saying, but you ask would I believe it, and I have to tell you no, I wouldn't believe it.
So if there were 400 wolves that were starving, they would starve, right? I mean, they wouldn't pack.
You're giving them some human reasoning skills. They don't think like humans do. They just don't. And I'm sorry. I'm not. Don't be if I'm not calling you a liar. No, it's not me. I don't know. I'd have to investigate that. But I'm 100 percent skeptical on it. Just because of everything that I'm familiar with. But it doesn't, you know, it stuff happens.
You asked me, I just said I don't believe it. I hear you. Beth, I don't have anything to contribute further on that.
I'm a science denier. There you go. I like that.
That's great.
I have only observed probably 15, but that's not Yellowstone. That's in my history. And I know in Yellowstone, like I said, I know one year they get up to 34. And I think probably the largest I've ever heard of being recorded that I know is factual. It might be 40, but that's extremely unusual.
Might be Canada. I'm trying to remember my source. I can't remember. But 34 in Yellowstone. That's unusual.
I think, well, three things happened. Three different females had pups. On average, they have six pups, seven pups. So there's recruiting right there, 18, 20 pups right there. In addition to the adults that were there, they had a good year. They had lots of prey. And so all those pups presumably made it to their first year. So for one winter... They were a huge pack, and then mortality happens.
Wolves are not designed to live in packs of 34. I mean, packs in the Midwest where the prey is smaller and the wolves are smaller, they live in smaller packs. In Montana, Wyoming, Idaho...
average pack might be somewhere between 10 and 15 and every year you gotta remember every year they have six to seven pups and by the next spring they're back down that's six or seven through mortality or dispersal or whatever happens hunting yeah so stuff happens yeah it's a hard life It is a hard life.
Another thing, I've heard lots of people, well, I've heard several people, and people I know quite well tell me stories about they encountered a wolf, or they encountered a wolf pack, and they were really frightened because they had their dog with them, and the wolves were interested in the dog, like little Carl there or something, and the wolves were circling around, and these people were terrified.
And when they told me this story, two people, they told me this story, and they said, yeah, they could have killed me. And my response is, yeah, easily. But you're here telling me this story.
So it's not very common for wolves to attack people. That's just what I'm saying. Not anymore. Not anymore. And I don't know how good the reporting was way back when.
Like the homesteaders. Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
When we had time. But they had guns. They had guns. They had poisons. They had traps. They had livestock. They had children. That's just what I'm saying. In this country.
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