Wolves vs Mountain Lions

[Irrelevant]

How Wolves Are Driving Down Mountain Lion Populations

A recent study from Wyoming shows that when the two predators overlap, wolves kill kittens in high numbers and push adults to starvation

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[406LIFE]

There's some good research on lion vs wolves being done recently as well as general lion ecology. I just watched a video of a lion and wolf squaring off. Makes me hope I get a wolf soon and do them together.

 

[BuzzH]

Be interesting to see what happens outside Yellowstone and where deer are the primary prey base for both wolves and lions, versus elk.

I bet that research would be much different.

 

[Dunning Kruger]

Gee, didnt see this one coming.

Korinna Domingo, the founder and director of the Cougar Conservancy, who was not involved in this study, suggests that wildlife managers should pause mountain lion hunting or reduce the quota in areas where wolves are moving back into the ecosystem. Doing so will allow the cats to deal with one major threat at a time instead of trying to evade both hunters and wolves simultaneously. "That needs to be a very serious consideration," she says.

 

[kwyeewyk]

Thinning out the weak lions right? Wolves are the gangsters of the woods.

 

[BuzzH]

Thinning out the weak lions right? Wolves are the gangsters of the woods.

Something needs to thin out the lions, the hound hunters certainly aren't getting the job done where I deer hunt in Montana.

 

[520 Road Sow]

I think there are more cats then one thinks

 

[LuketheDog]

Easy fix, we'll just have vote here in CO to reintroduce the lions once the wolves get them all...

 

[brockel]

I think there are more cats then one thinks

Bingo

 

[WapitiBob]

The area I hunt here, 5 of the last 6 years, I've seen a bunch of cat tracks. This year I saw my first wolf sign when one ran a calf elk past me at about 50 yards and killed it at about 100. The wolves stayed in that area for several days, as did the Elk, but this year I never saw a cat track. They were noticeably absent.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Coyotes are scarce up here where there are several wolf packs.

Lynx and fox seem to cycle with the snowshoe hare populations.

 

[TheTone]

I think there are more cats then one thinks

Agreed. I also think hunting mortality, from houndsmen anyways, is pretty low. Most hound guys I know kill very, very few lions

 

[Dunning Kruger]

25 years now without hounds in my state. Lions are everydamnwhere. I think their numbers are easily triple what our dfw claims.

 

[Bluffgruff]

Are wolves ultimately going to benefit wild sheep by killing the lions that are their main predator?

 

[Jc2020]

Agreed. I also think hunting mortality, from houndsmen anyways, is pretty low. Most hound guys I know kill very, very few lions

Do you guys have a lot of hound hunters up there? We used to have a lot of hound hunters around here for coyotes and coons but it seems to be a dying thing Around here we don’t have near the amount of people doing it we used to