Diane K. Boyd
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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But why mess with it at all if they know it's dangerous?
My imagination and my theory is that maybe this is a wolf that's already caught, been caught, and it's got other pack members that are naive. And it stops because it smells. It's like, oh, man, I know what this is. Maybe it's time to show Junior what's going on here, and maybe they pull it out. I don't know. I don't know.
I haven't seen the video, but I've watched stuff with crows.
They may have.
And the camera with the full eye reflection sitting indoors in a room, that doesn't smack of wildness to me.
Give it to Mikey. Mikey likes everything.
I think there's a huge portion of our brain that we never, never touch. And I think animals are more tuned in. I think in many ways, many species are smarter than us just because they can sense their environment more acutely.
Maybe not.
Yeah.
The Yellowstone's been a great place to observe hunting. I mean, when I was working up northwest Montana, it's heavily forested. We never... Almost never got to watch wolves chasing prey unless we were in the airplane. But in the Lamar, you got scopes and everybody's watching it. And I've seen some pretty incredible chases.
And there's certain, in some packs, certain individuals are the chasers, the younger animals. And some of the individuals are the coup de grace. They go in for the kill after the animal's been tired. And I guess there was some older animals that are too valuable potentially to risk being injured early on. But they join in the chase and they know how to kill an animal.
So one thing I've always wondered, I don't know if this is with the morphic resonance, but that's something different maybe. But I've always wondered when wolves were first walking down from Canada and dispersing from Glacier before wolves were reintroduced and there was a very thin population of wolves out there. How do they know where to go? For example, there is a wolf pack in the Nine Mile.
It's a river drainage outside of Missoula. And this pair of wolves had formed a mating system and they had a litter of pups. The female was poached on Memorial Day, which is those pups are born in middle April. So they were pretty young. They were five, six weeks old. They were still dependent on mom.
And the concern was that the dad wouldn't be able to raise those pups because he's got to go out and hunt. And they're just being weaned and blah, blah, blah. Well, two weeks, two weeks after the female was dead, my colleague Mike, who was working down there, says, Hey, Diane, are you missing any collared wolves from Glacier? I said, Yeah, I'm missing several that I don't know where they went.
He says, Because... I just had a collared wolf show up here and joined the Nine Mile Mail. I said, really? I said, well, here's my list of frequencies of the missing wolves that had been missing. And he ran through the receiver and listened. And one of those wolves was one that I had caught in Glacier and disappeared immediately. six, seven months earlier.
So she wandered around in not cyberspace, but mountain space, trying to look for a place to fit in. And all of a sudden, when this female gets shot, boom, she's there to fill in the slot.
How does that happen? And that happens in Yellowstone, too, where one of the breeding animals will be killed. And very soon after, a wolf of unknown... Well, there they know a lot of the wolves. But a wolf will just show up, the right gender, the right age...
and and potentially bond and start a new pack how do they know and i guess all i can say is with that there's scent the wolves smelling the air and the scat can detect all kinds of things hormonally and the the the dominance of an animal if the female went missing almost said they won't smell it anymore and maybe it's a male a female coming in and she knows it but geographically how do they know to migrate right 200 miles and show up exactly when the other wolf disappears
Yeah.
It's amazing to me. So have you ever heard of the book called World on the Wing by Paul? I think the last name is Whedon. I don't know. It's about the world of migration. It is mind-boggling. If you like to read nature stuff and science, it's written so anybody can enjoy it. You don't have to be a scientist.
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