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Showing posts with label wilderness. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Do Wolves Kill for Sport?
From Slate:
No, but sometimes they hunt down more than they can eat.
During this fall's inaugural wolf-hunting season in Montana, hunters killed the matriarch of a Yellowstone wolf pack that researchers had been studying for more than a decade. Park officials suspect that her mate and three other pack members were also killed. A Los Angeles Times story about the hunt claims that wolves are known to kill for "pure pleasure." Do wolves really attack their prey just for the fun of it?
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