Understanding Wolves - Dispersal
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
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This short video explores the dispersal of gray wolves from Idaho into Oregon and eventually into California. Follow along as wolves, such as OR7 and OR93, are radio-collared and their GPS location data is mapped and animated to illustrate the immense distances and dynamic nature involved in wolf dispersal.
Dispersal is when a wolf permanently leaves its birth pack, with the intention of establishing a new territory and finding a mate to create a new pack or joining an existing pack. While some wolves choose to stay home, those that choose to disperse increase the chance that they will breed in the future.
The information presented in this video about the biology and behavior of wolves is based on data that ODFW collected since 2010.
Apex predators are one of the most important and misunderstood keystones to the ecology web. Thank you for putting this together
Absolutely! So does that mean you will let ODFW do their job when they recommend hunting seasons? Or will you all of a sudden know more than the biologists and vote to stop it?
@@lucasnoling7363 as long as they don't make wolves extinct...
@@lucasnoling7363as long as they don't completely wipe them out yes
I’ve had a few encounters with wolves in Oregon, they never posed any threat to me, but I have seen how they kill and displace big game that also needs to survive.
You guys are good to wolves. 😊
Very informative, thank you for all you guys do 🙏
Absolutely fantastic video!!!
Beautiful and Much needed Information 🐺
I have an appreciation for wolves and how they survive. I hear often that they decimate populations of big game and cattle without intention of eating them. Is this true?
I am not an expect by any means, but I seriously doubt that is true. the vast majority of predators will only kill what they can eat, and are just as likely to scavenge as they are to hunt.
It takes only a cursory understanding of biology to conclude this accusation (that wolves "decimate" big game and cattle) simply can't be true. Hunting is difficult and dangerous work, especially with wild game; wolves don't do it for sport, they do it because as a facultative carnivore, they must kill prey to eat. Wolves only succeed in a hunt about 20% of the time and take a serious risk by hunting such formidable prey at all. Wolves get their jaws and ribs broken, skulls cracked; they lose and wear down teeth hunting. Such an activity is dangerous and energetically expensive, and it's often all a pack can manage to pull down a healthy elk - which is why often, they go for weaker, sicker, or injured elk to minimize risk and therefore weed out the least fit members of the herd.
great video - thank you!
Studied them for years. Favorite animal. Sat with them in Devide Colorado. Large packs travel with old sick up front . Strong in middle. Alpha in back to watch all.🐺
I wanted to let you know, I saw one a couple years ago in the Winchester Bay Oregon coast area. It walked right in front of my car at a stop sign, like it was walking through a cross walk, and It didn't have a collar.
Outstanding! Thank you for sharing!
Americans are so lucky to have their wolves.
You guys do good work you have my support. Thank you for this video
If you’re only capable tracking collared animals, and you’re tracking only collared animals, it would likely mean you are driving collared animals.
The department of Fish and Wildlife from Oregon teaches stuff to a guy from switzerland. You should charge taxes haha :D
Thanks for the informative video
Beautiful ❤️