A wolf spotted keeping his distance, carefully moving through the vegetation along a trail.
Until next moment,
Amar
Wolf
This picture was taken last month of the wolf looking back while walking on an animal trail. He was exploring his pack's home range, which involves marking the territory and looking for food.
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Amar
Wolf
Last Tuesday was a dark day, first I come across a dead carcass of black bear middle of the highway, the bear had jumped over the fence and got hit while trying to cross the busy road. I called it in and few stopped to help move it off the highway before colleagues from Canada Parks arrived. Then getting home I found out the alpha female wolf who was becoming bold near humans after being food conditioned, was put down that morning. For a moment it was hard to believe this happened in a national park, it supposed to be a place that kept wildlife safe. More works is needed , but the work already done played a role getting them this far.
Many hours were spent by colleagues keeping the bear away from danger, before it picked a wrong time and place to get to the other side of the highway. As for the wolf, other members of the pack, not to the same extreme as the former alpha female are also showing similar behaviour. In many parts of the country, forget that, just in Alberta the whole pack would have been put down long time ago. Lot of work ahead for our wildlife specialist team to keep rest of the pack wild, that includes three yearlings (one of them in the attached picture), pups of this year and the alpha male. Rest of us can do our part by keeping our food to ourselves, As hard as it is hearing a wolf was put down because of human mistakes, it's even harder for the wolf pack. who has to move on with a member of the family been taken away by us, wildlife has no defence for that.
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Amar
Wolf
This wolf was going for a walk when I spotted it. The wolf is year old and is exploring the park along more and more. He more than his sibling seem to be showing more independence, time will tell how this will play out. Will he leave the pack and look for a mate and call some place else a home or he might be pushed out by the alpha male to secure his place.
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Amar
Wolf
Polluting not only hurts the environment but also the wildlife. Biting on plastic and worst on metal can cut the mouth and the animal can get infected. Luckily in this case the wolf dropped the plastic bottle after couple of bites, I picked it up after he was gone.
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Amar
Wolf
It's always special seeing wildlife, even more when seeing something that is not spotted regularly. This young wolf was taking it easy whenI came across it.
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Amar
Wolf
I came across this wolf few weeks back, it was sitting near the road and as I got closer in my car it got up and started crossing the road. But before it crossed the road it stopped in the middle of the road and did a stretch. Then finished crossing the road and got on a animal trail and walked away.
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Amar
Wolf
Got a picture of this wolf while it was busy trying to reunite with rest of the pack. Since he had no smartphone, he had to use his howling and his great smell to join up with rest of the pack.
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Amar
Wolf
A study that has been going on for 50 years at Isle Royale National Park on an island in Lake Superior has lead to some conclusion regarding wolf pack formation. Ravens are often found at a wolf kill, a biologists John Vucetich did some calculations, that a single Raven can eat and stash twice its body weight of meat a kill site, which works out to 4 pounds per bird. Now there is never just one Raven at a kill site. So all together the Ravens can put away lot of meat form a wolf kill, a conservative estimate indicated 40 pounds per day. Vucetich's math indicated ravens could take half the meat from two wolves, where a single wolf could only consume 13 pounds of meat per day. With four wolves in a pack, easier to keep the Ravens back and as well net them more meat per each wolf. Glad this theory does not apply to the two legged wolf consuming chocolate.
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Amar
