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From: Rick Meril <rick.meril@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:30 PM
Subject: some further info you might or might not have
To: Lynn Rogers <lrogers@bearstudy.org>
Wolf interaction with other Predators
Wolves interact with other animals of the wild in many defferent ways. Here are some examples as well as information on each different kinds of predators that can be seen in a wolf habbitat. Some information was used here: http://www.ualberta.ca/~jzgurski/wild.html
Wolves and bears can coexist peacefully and often avoid each other. However, wolf-bear interactions can be quite violent. Grizzly bears will sometimes dig up, kill, and eat wolf pups. As a result, wolf packs will attempt to drive away grizzly bears that get close to the dens where wolf pups are living. Wolves may even attack, and have been known to kill, a grizzly bear that gets too close to the den. Wolves and grizzly bears have been seen fighting over animal carcasses from helicopters in Alaska.
Bears will scavenge off of kills made by wolves, and they may try to drive a wolf or a few wolves off of a kill. Wolves can be quite aggressive towards black bears. There are records of wolves preying on black bears, and wolves have been known to kill and eat hibernating bears. Wolves will also attack black bear cubs when the mother bear cannot get to them and hurry them up a tree fast enough. Black bears will also occasionally kill wolf cubs
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