Wolf Kill?

[PAW66]

Found this kill on the Nile. Was told it was a wolf kill. What do you folks think?

[gasman]

Looks like an elk someone poached to me.

Skinned, boned out and left for the critters 

[Widgeondeke]

Who told ya that? Surely not WDFW

[trophyhunt]

Looks like an elk someone poached to me.

Skinned, boned out and left for the critters 

i would agree before I thought a critter kill, but I'm far from an expert!

[gasman]

Looks like an elk someone poached to me.

Skinned, boned out and left for the critters 

i would agree before I thought a critter kill, but I'm far from an expert!

me neither and it looks like it was skinned and the legs are missing but the rest of the skeleton is there.

[Hunterman]

That's no more a wolf kill than a road kill. Looks like someone dumped an elk carcass to me. How many wolves skin and leave bones like that.

Hunterman(Tony)

[PAW66]

Could have been poached; but was located 500 yards off a road, a mile up from a locked gate. Would have been some work.

[gasman]

Could have been poached; but was located 500 yards off a road, a mile up from a locked gate. Would have been some work.

UNLESS they left the sex organ attached to a rear hind leg 

If they didn't tag the animal and just packed out the meat, then I would call it poached.

[Timberstalker]

Is that a cow head in the picture?  Sure looks like it. Hey could have boned the meat out and left the sex organ to the leg. Nothing there indicates a poaching. Unless I am missing something in the picture.

[PAW66]

It was a cow/calf. Found during rifle season, three days before cow season.

[Timberstalker]

So it could have been a muzzy or an archery guy?

[villageidiot]

No telling for sure what killed this animal but wolves eat the ribs like candy.  The ribs are still there even though I'd like to blame wolves because they get excused for many animals they do actually kill.  Wolves didn't even eat on this or the ribs would be gone down to the backbone. Ravens, eagles and coyotes likely cleaned this up.

[AspenBud]

At the risk of sounding condescending, I try to avoid kill sites in the woods. Walking up to one is a sure fire way to increase your odds of having a nasty encounter with any number of predators.

[sirmissalot]

I've seen cat kills where it had skinned the animal, but not that well. Looks human to me, then the coyotes cleaned it up.

[Elkrunner]

It looks to me that somone quartered the elk and left the rest.  The birds picked the carcass clean.  Its skinned as part of the quatering process.