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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

While it is well documented that Wolf Packs will "go to war" and fight neighboring Wolf Packs to obtain additional territory, I have never seen or heard of a lone female Wolf invading a Wolf natal den to try and kill the pups of the year..............The video that you will view by clicking on the link below shows how fiercely the females of a given Arctic Wolf Pack will defend their newly born pups from an invading lone female wolf..................A must view!


A MUST-SEE VIDEO OF FEMALE WOLVES DEFENDING THEIR PUPS AGAINST
AN INTRUDING LONE FEMALE --CLICK ON LINK BELOW TO VIEW

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.livescience.com/61384-brutal-wolf-pack-fight-video.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTgxMjQ5NTgzNzAzMDQzOTE4MzIyGmRhOTdjZjk0NzgwNDY5OWE6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHN9g7qk_XYfHzKb3R9PItN9nZTEQ

Pack of Female Wolves Destroys Enemy Intruder in Brutal Fight (Video)

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A pack of female wolves defends its den from an intruder in a new PBS documentary.
Credit: Nature: Arctic Wolf Pack/WNET
Moms are fierce — especially when they're wolves.
In a dramatic new video from an upcoming PBS documentary on Arctic wolves, a pack of female wolves defends its den from a bedraggled, strange wolf who attempts to make a meal of the pack's defenseless cubs.
Well, defenseless except for their mother and her three female packmates.
In a snarling, brutal sequence, the pack drags, bites and pulls the invader away from the pups. Within moments, the pups are safe from danger, and the stranger is on the run.
he footage is part of a new episode in the series "Nature." The episode, "Arctic Wolf Pack," airs on PBS on Jan. 17. The documentary follows a pack of Arctic wolves (Canis lupus arctos) living only 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the North Pole. The snowy-furred canines birth their fuzzy, blind pups in dens burrowed into the Arctic tundra. Their mother, dubbed Snow White, isn't alone in caring for them. Her packmate, Black Spot, nurses Snow White's pups — a mysterious behavior never before captured on film. To make milk, Black Spot must have recently given birth herself, but the fate of her mate and her own litter is a mystery.
Arctic wolves are found in Greenland and the far northern reaches of Canada. It's the only subspecies of gray wolf that is not threatened by hunting or loss of habitat, according to the World Wide Fund (WWF) — an advantage it gains by living so far north that it rarely encounters humans.
Beyond its white fur, the Arctic wolf's short muzzle and small ears distinguish this subspecies from its more southerly gray cousins. These adaptations make it easier for the wolves to retain body heat, according to the WWF. The wolves live off of Arctic hares, caribou and musk ox, the latter of which grow to at least 10 times the wolves' weight. With such large prey, survival is a matter of cooperation between packmates — whether that means banding together to hunt or to protect the next generation.
The documentary "Nature: Arctic Wolf Pack" from THIRTEEN premieres Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 8 p.m. on PBS

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