Wolves Attack and Kill 19 Elk 85 miles from Yellowstone... What Are the Animals Sensing?

There sensing that Yellowstone to erupt soon?

i think they are wolves and they had a good day

They are thinking that human meat is easier to get than these damn elk

in this case they sensed food

That is 400 wolves pack.

Preppin' wolf.

Sure. And why don't they kill large numbers of elk daily??? No, this is out of the ordinary. There is something causing them to act this way. Yellowstone is very unstable.

Prepping like he said, weird.

Hunger? and cubs to feed? Foxes and wolves will both make surplus kills in a feeding frenzy. KIlling instinct goes in to overdrive and they kill more than they could possibly use. Scientists really don't know what causes it. Maybe it's natures response to overpopulation.

Last Edited by FlashBuzzkill on 03/25/2016 09:47 AM

Not in that number. This is not a regular occurrence. This is really extraordinary news.

No something is going on, Ive seen more roadkill in the past month than ever before.
There is no question the animals during the Sumatra quake knew. Watch the animals, they dont know that they know, but they know.

lol.

It's weird when they get nerves, they look so stressed, and you can tell they do not know why, but they do follow their instincts when it happens...to a T...Gnarly.

Dude everyone is on a fucking roll this morning on GLP hahhahahhaaha

Awesome band.

Sounds like old faithful is stirring...

I would say that this will be "weird event #1", if other "weird events" happen in the Yellowstone area over the next days or weeks, then I think there may be something stirring... with Yellowstone, it pays to pay attention to things that are out of the ordinary.

Wolves are absolute vermon. They slaughter for sport. They just eat the guts out of animals when they kill in mass. Even completely fed, they will still kill as many as they can. They have decimated the elk population here in northern Idaho after being wrongly introduced into an environment they were not native to by Bubba Clinton.

So to be clear, the wolves were not sensing anything happening in Yellowstone. They just fucking suck. They are the sand naggers of the animal kingdom.

Wolves kill for the killing.
Not for food...
Moving to yellowstone and kill me some wolves

This happens every spring, as the wolves are removing the fetus from these cows. They are leaving the rest of the carcus untouched.

Look, I hope you all are right, and you may very well be. We don't have wolves in the state that I live in, so I really don't know. The news did strike me as odd this morning though. If nothing else odd happens in the Yellowstone area over the next days or weeks, then yea, you are right...

Just bears watching though.

"Like many other predators, wolves occasionally kill more than can be immediately eaten, sometimes resulting in the death of multiple prey animals. This uncommon behavior, known as “surplus killing,” has been documented in many predator species. Surplus killing by wolves is more likely to occur in late winter, when having a supply of food caches to return to is critical for survival. Nature is rarely wasteful, if ever. Whatever the wolves don’t eat first, is welcomed nourishment for countless other animals.
Something entirely different (and unnatural) happens when predators pursue domestic sheep. Not only do sheep lack natural defenses but their instincts often do not serve them well either. Instead of fleeing, as wild prey would do, sheep tend to run in circles. This chaos can trigger a prey response in predators that can result in multiple kills. In the Northern Rockies this behavior has been recorded with mountain lions, bears, coyotes, wolves, and domestic dogs. However, many of the incidents where multiple sheep have been killed have been the result of panicked sheep stampeding themselves."

From Living with Wolves---

It says it's uncommon behavior and I think I'd agree with people who study these animals...

elk pack lost instincts on how tomreact to wolf attack

maybe because wolfs were nearly eliminated for over a century?

elks didnt scatter wolfs just did what wolfs do

good point OP. clever thinking.

Theres so much magma under yellowstone that milions will die if it blew.

Look, wolves were reintroduced in 1996. The elk are very aware of wolves behavior, as we are in several generations of elk living with them. In the beginning, the wolves fed on the calves as they were born, now they prefer them a little sooner. If you do not live here and see the behavior, please listen to those of us who do.

Wolves are one of the animals that sometimes kill just for fun.

They were sensing hungry ..you act like this has never happened before

You apparently haven't read the thread, lazy ass.