Logan Dove
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first heard Jun 2026
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And then the researchers through those methods were able to measure the exact, the biomass of what was actually eaten.
So they could tell in this scat, 80% of that is cattle, even though there might be seven different things that are, that are in that.
And so it's not just how often a prey showed up.
It's,
relatively how much that prey was eaten.
Roughly, yeah.
It's pretty insane, and I could not get into the specifics of how it works, but there is a long section about that.
And so when you look into the biomass, which is kind of what we're talking about, cattle averaged 55% of the biomass consumed versus 12% of mule deer and 15% of small mammals.
So they're just chowing on cattle.
You cannot determine what's distinguished from predation versus scavenging, which makes the data kind of interesting.
But free-range cow-calf operations traditionally have mortality around 1% or 2%.
So researchers say it's reasonable to think that a meaningful share of this cattle biomass reflects actual kills, not just scavenging.
And there are a few that were confirmed to be actual kills, but generally it's so remote and so dispersed you can't figure out what's a scavenge and what's killed.
Um, then I looked at a meta analysis of this, of like, how does this compare in California to wolves worldwide and how they're predating on things?
And you see that livestock are hit the hardest where herds are grazing unattended and small dispersed groups.
When, when you look at the occurrence of this compared to natural game, or I should say that the game species, there actually seems to be a preference towards game species as a pro as opposed to, um, livestock, but
the higher, those higher rates don't, it's not the same when those cattle are dispersed and when the prey goes down proportionally.
Yeah, this idea that maybe there's these cow eaters that were brought in that have been talked to.
I didn't find that specifically.
There's definitely a learning curve associated with prey in a new species.
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