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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, February 20, 2019

"Carrion consumption by herbivores is increasingly being observed in nature"............. "In the Yukon, Canada between January 2015 and July 2017, U. of Alberta researchers witnessed Snowshoe Hares scavenging 12.4% of carcasses deployed and were more likely to scavenge during the winter"........... "Hares consumed meat from a variety of different species, including Canada Lynx as well as the carcasses of dead hares"..........."On one occasion, an individual repeatedly ingested feathers from a Spruce Grouse carcass"............"Scavenging by hares may result from food or nutrient limitations during winter months and appears a relatively common phenomenon"


1/11/19;  BY 

Hares are cannibals and eat meat, surprising photos reveal



The consumption of dead flesh by herbivores is increasingly being observed in nature, scientists report in the December issue of Bio One. Look no further than the snowshoe hare, normally a herbivore: Between January 2015 and July 2017, Canadian researchers observed hares eating the flesh of grouse, Canadian lynx, and even other hares. Normally, the population cycles of snowshoe hares and lynx are closely linked, but it’s typically the lynx eating the hare as its primary food source. The natural order, however, seems to be turning upside down.

“There have been reports of hares scavenging in older natural history observations, but I was surprised by the frequency that they scavenge and the diversity of species they will consume meat from — particularly the Canada lynx, given they are the main predator of snowshoe hares,” first author Michael Peerstells Inverse.
A series of motion captured images from December, 2015 showing a snowshoe hare eating the feathers of a dead spruce grouse. FROM THE PAPER SCAVENGING BY SNOWSHOE HARES (LEPUS AMERICANUS) IN YUKON, CANADA




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