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Re: Wolf will travel
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2024, 02:12:20 PM »
Then CO shouldn't need to transplant any woofs, they're already there.

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Re: Wolf will travel
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2024, 12:14:02 PM »
I was just about to post this also. I would question whether someone is trapping and relocating wolves under the radar. Curious if we see more of this in the future.  :dunno:

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Re: Wolf will travel
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2024, 09:50:35 PM »
I was just about to post this also. I would question whether someone is trapping and relocating wolves under the radar. Curious if we see more of this in the future.  :dunno:


This isn’t new. Check out the OR-7 wolf from Oregon. That wolf travelled 1200 miles.
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Re: Wolf will travel
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2024, 10:11:11 AM »
It’s certainly possible that it traveled to Minnesota on its own, but doesn’t seem likely. That’s a lot of interstates, fences, fields to cross. Then to get caught in a random farmers set…

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Wolf will travel
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2024, 12:32:16 PM »

It is possible that the wolf made it all the way from the Great Lakes to Elbert County on its own. Gray wolves are known to roam, and in 2023, researchers tracked a collared wolf from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that traveled more than 4,000 miles over an 18-month period.”

The closest Great Lakes wolves to where this one was trapped is 900 miles as the crow flies.
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Re: Wolf will travel
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2024, 03:30:19 PM »
Not likely, fair bit of dense people farm ground along that 900 mile line.  More likely some person from Michigan brought a wolf pup when they moved to Oregon and kicked it loose when it grew out of cute.

 


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