Diane K. Boyd
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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It's becoming more and more common. So now that we have satellite callers, we've been using those for years, we can track them without having to stay in touch physically with them. In the old days, we just had VHF callers and you had to physically be there within range, like from an airplane or track them. But now that we got...
satellite collars i mean my gosh you got wolves going from washington to montana and one of the wolves from wyoming went all the way down to arizona to just north of the grand canyon wow with the satellite collar was tracked and then it turned around and started home and it got shot in utah so when they're doing this and you track them how long do those collars batteries last
Well, sadly, for the VHF collars, the wolves generally die before the collars do, because wolves don't live very long. An average VHF collar lasts about four years. An average satellite collar, one to two years, and I don't understand why the technology is not...
better to prolong some kind of a new battery because once you put all the trauma of going through the wolf with a helicopter and catching it or whatever you'd think they could get some kind of a super battery that would last a long time probably too heavy heavy yeah and they're you know wolves are on average 100 pounds and the batteries are pretty big but i'm waiting for elon musk to develop a super radio collar battery
Ah.
Isn't it a hydrogen battery or something crazy?
I was just reading. I'm sorry, I don't remember.
That's a – always when I do have a talk, I ask the audience, how long do you think the average wolf lives? So if you guess from the time they're visible from the den emergence, like you start to see them at four weeks. And if you die before that, until they die, do you want to take a guess at –
4.3 years. Yeah. Dr. Randall got that.
You did. I bet the antlers were getting smaller by that time. Yes.
They're not evolved to live that long. Right. They just aren't. They usually die sooner because they burn up so much energy in years of mating and breeding that they get worn down and then, you know, they die.
But the wolves, I mean, in a zoo or a captive situation, they can live to be 15. Right. Like a dog. Yeah, but that's extraordinary. I think the longest I had a wolf, a wild wolf, that I knew her age because I caught her as a pup and I recaptured her and we tagged her, 12 years. That's extremely long for an old wolf.
Yeah, there's a few in Yellowstone that I got that old. We had one of mine that dispersed to Idaho. And he, kind of interesting, I caught him in 1990. And he dispersed about a year later on his own, went to Idaho in the middle of the Frank Church River, if not return wilderness. There were no other wolves at that time. And he just hung around. We'd see him once in a while. By himself? By himself.
He was a big male. When I got him, he was 111 pounds. But this animal had to survive by killing animals alone. You think about... That's crazy. Trying to pull down an elk with your teeth.
He went to where there weren't any wolves, interestingly. But he had a success story because he just waited it out. And when they reintroduced those wolves into Idaho in 95 and 96... A little black female wolf pops out of her crate and just hits the road as fast as she can go. And she bumps into this wolf when they set up a territory in Kelly Creek.
And they became a breeding mating pair for years and years until he died of old age.
Yeah.
Four.
Without having helped to kill your food item either. That's what amazes me. Because he could have gone to Montana and found other wolves, but he didn't.
Yes.
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