Wolves Are Killing Deer “For Sport” Now

29 Mar 2016 by Sloane Hunter in America, Animals, Conservation, Sport

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When animals go rogue, it can be frustrating to side with them. If only we could get into their heads, then we might have a better understanding of what they are going through.  You see, once upon a time, wolves were on the verge of becoming extinct. In an effort to save the species, the state of Wyoming made it illegal to hunt them, placed them back on the endangered list and placed them under federal control:

Gray wolves have lived in the American West for an estimated 10,000 years, though they were nearly wiped out by hunting and habitat loss over the past few centuries. They have been making a slow comeback in recent years, bolstered by their reintroduction to Yellowstone National Park. While there were formerly about 2 million of the animals living in North America before Europeans arrived, roughly 5,500 live on the continent today.

Management of wolves in Wyoming has been a polarizing issue, with state officials promoting a “kill on site” policy for several years that resulted in hundreds of shootings. However, in 2014, a federal court relisted the animal under the Endangered Species Act for the state, making it again illegal to kill them. Officials found just over 300 wolves in Wyoming at the end of 2013.

Now, people are angry because the wolves went on a killing spree and no one knows why.

A gray wolf pack, made up of about nine of the species, allegedly killed around 19 elk in a single night. Most of the victims were calves, along with two adult cows and the culling took place near Bondurant, southeast of Jackson.

As wolves are unlike humans and tend not to kill for sport, it is suspected that these killings, which take place end of Winter, could be an attempt to catch food for later consumption, snacking on the carcasses for weeks.

[source: nationalgeographic]

[image: Ryan Dorgan]

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