tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113182078732942696.post5291017373666349319..comments2024-03-12T05:38:57.339-07:00Comments on Wolves, Wolf Facts, Cougars, Cougar Facts, Coyotes, Coyote Facts - Wolves, Cougars, Coyotes Forever: The Teton Cougar Project, now a dozen years old, was founded by Howard Quigley and Derek Craighead............... The biologists sought to understand cougar movements, population dynamics, predator-prey relationships and the cats' interactions with other large predators, including wolves, grizzly bears and black bears.....................The group's findings are beginning to hit the presses. In the coming year, Elbroch, fellow Cougar Project biologist Patrick Lendrum and others plan to publish three papers...................... The first, which measures the effects of wolves on the cougar population, turned up perhaps the most shocking results...............: The population, they found, has fallen by half since the project started....... About 18 adult mountain lions are now thought to inhabit Jackson Hole, along with an equal number of cubs and "dispersers............Wolves appear to be knocking them back...........And they seem to be targeting kittens..................Competition, not predation, is the driving factor...........so even though Pumas tend to move out of the more open spaces where Wolves hunt by chasing their prey, Wolves seek to up their elk kill success by limiting Puma populations in the TetonsCoyotes, Wolves and Cougars foreverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05594002891926526543noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113182078732942696.post-67518904306318787232013-04-20T19:06:17.829-07:002013-04-20T19:06:17.829-07:00Great post. National Geographic channel has been ...Great post. National Geographic channel has been showing a fantastic 1 hour show on the Teton cougar project. I will be very interested in Elbroch's paper. I spent some time this winter tracking cats on the eastern side of YNP where I live. Many times the cat's tracks seems to coincide with the wolf pack's tracks. One time they led to a deer kill and I'm not sure if they pushed the cat off of it. Fascinating stuff.Lesliehttp://www.thehumanfootprint.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com