tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113182078732942696.post385940078918991650..comments2024-03-12T05:38:57.339-07:00Comments on Wolves, Wolf Facts, Cougars, Cougar Facts, Coyotes, Coyote Facts - Wolves, Cougars, Coyotes Forever: Blog reader L.B. weighing in on the impact of whether bountys effectively achieve the "controls" that state game agencies seek in limiting Wolf , Coyote and other Carnivores populations......He makes some spot on and Poignant points including -----"MOST predatory animals(e.g Wolves/Coyotes/Pumas) do not naturally continue to increase to an overpopulated state like deer or other ungulates"-------"Through territoriality and social controls of their own numbers, they do not and cannot exceed their natural carrying capacity"........... "Wherever they live, they are DIRECTLY controlled by the numbers of the prey animals they hunt"............ "Only in certain specific circumstances can predators suppress prey numbers, but even then, only temporarily, because suppressed prey numbers AUTOMATICALLY will lessen predator populations".........................So why then do we continue to have states like Pennsylvania calling for expensive and wasteful Bounty programs on Coyotes e al.?................. Pennsylvania Outdoor News Columist Mark Nale is right there reinforcing LB's commentary,,,,adding "As all wildlife biologists know – coyotes are a perfect example of the "compensatory response"............. "If coyote populations are low and food plentiful, coyotes will reproduce at a higher level and their offspring will survive at a higher rate than normal"........... "If coyote populations are high and food supplies low, their reproduction and survival rate drops".................. "Even if a bounty would cause significantly more coyotes to be shot (which is doubtful), the surviving coyotes would quickly respond by reproducing at a higher level"....................."Result: bounties paid, money lost – coyote population unchanged!!!!!!!!!"Coyotes, Wolves and Cougars foreverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05594002891926526543noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113182078732942696.post-67194411761027379922014-02-17T11:49:33.728-08:002014-02-17T11:49:33.728-08:00I think SOME wildlife officials(and MAYBE some pol...I think SOME wildlife officials(and MAYBE some politicians too. Maybe.) know very well bounties don't work, but they initiate them anyway to try and please all the whining predator haters out there. Perhaps it keeps them busy enough to keep them off the streets! Give them another outlet from even more destructive behavior. But yeah, how many centuries of bounty efforts that never work do we have to experience before it becomes common knowledge that they DON'T WORK! Us predator lovers just have to be LOUDER and MORE annoying, I guess, than the predator haters!....L. B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com