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Title: Grey Wolf Taken in KY!!!
Post by: pianoman9701 on August 14, 2013, 11:11:04 AM
Holy crap!!! You mean these things don't stay where they're supposed to? There's hope for Pierce & King Co.s yet.

http://fw.ky.gov/app/news/newsdetail.aspx?ID=1334 (http://fw.ky.gov/app/news/newsdetail.aspx?ID=1334)

Frankfort, KY. - Federal officials recently confirmed that an animal taken by a hunter near Munfordville in Hart County on March 16 is a gray wolf.

A DNA analysis performed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Wildlife Research Center in Colorado determined the 73-pound animal was a federally endangered gray wolf with a genetic makeup resembling wolves native to the Great Lakes Region. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Oregon confirmed the finding.

How the wolf found its way to a Munfordville hay ridge at daybreak in March remains a mystery. Wolves have been gone from the state since the mid-1800s.

Great Lakes Region wolf biologists said the animal's dental characteristics - a large amount of plaque on its teeth - suggest it may have spent some time in captivity. A largely carnivorous diet requiring the crushing of bone as they eat produces much less plaque on the teeth of wild wolves.

Hart County resident James Troyer took the animal with a shot from 100 yards away while predator hunting on his family's farm. Troyer, 31, said he had taken a coyote off the property just two weeks earlier.

But when he approached the downed animal he noticed it was much larger. "I was like - wow - that thing was big!" he recalled. "It looked like a wolf, but who is going to believe I shot a wolf?"

Because a free-ranging wolf has not been seen in the state for more than a century, biologists were skeptical at first. However, wildlife officials were aware that a few radio-collared northern wolves have wandered as far south as Missouri in the past decade.

Wolves resemble coyotes, except they are much larger. From a distance, the size difference is difficult to determine.

Troyer convinced Kevin Raymond, a wildlife biologist for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, to look at the animal. Once Raymond saw the animal was twice the size of a coyote, he contacted furbearer biologist Laura Patton, who submitted samples to federal officials for DNA testing.

Because state and federal laws prohibit the possession, importation into Kentucky or hunting of gray wolves, federal officials took possession of the pelt. Since this is the first free-ranging gray wolf documented in Kentucky's modern history, federal or state charges are not expected because there were no prior biological expectations for any hunter to encounter a wolf.
Title: Re: Grey Wolf Taken in KY!!!
Post by: boneaddict on August 14, 2013, 11:13:42 AM
Just a member of the lookout pack.  No big deal.  (insert sarcasm emoticon here) :chuckle:
Title: Re: Grey Wolf Taken in KY!!!
Post by: AspenBud on August 14, 2013, 11:19:35 AM
"Great Lakes Region wolf biologists said the animal's dental characteristics - a large amount of plaque on its teeth - suggest it may have spent some time in captivity. A largely carnivorous diet requiring the crushing of bone as they eat produces much less plaque on the teeth of wild wolves"

Huh? Captive where then?
Title: Re: Grey Wolf Taken in KY!!!
Post by: CedarPants on August 14, 2013, 11:20:45 AM
Just a member of the lookout pack.  No big deal.  (insert sarcasm emoticon here) :chuckle:

 :lol4: :lol4:
Title: Re: Grey Wolf Taken in KY!!!
Post by: MLBowhunting on August 14, 2013, 11:50:47 AM
Spreading all over
Title: Re: Grey Wolf Taken in KY!!!
Post by: Curly on August 14, 2013, 11:52:24 AM
Wolf lovers must have shipped that one into the area.  Probably from a place similar to wolf haven.  :twocents:
Title: Re: Grey Wolf Taken in KY!!!
Post by: bearpaw on August 14, 2013, 10:39:23 PM
 :yeah:  That's what I was thinking.

These captive wolves should be subject to registration, I suspect fowl play of these wolf lover places.
Title: Re: Grey Wolf Taken in KY!!!
Post by: Mudman on August 14, 2013, 10:53:34 PM
Wolf lovers must have shipped that one into the area.  Probably from a place similar to wolf haven.  :twocents:
:chuckle: My neighbor wouldn't do that!  :chuckle:  I know the back way in for any wolf tag holders! :4w: :mgun:
Title: Re: Grey Wolf Taken in KY!!!
Post by: mkcj on August 14, 2013, 11:23:44 PM
With the Bio saying this wolf was caged I have a feeling that a wolf of the opposite sex will be seen roaming the same area some day. :twocents:
Title: Re: Grey Wolf Taken in KY!!!
Post by: Smossy on August 14, 2013, 11:40:21 PM
Pics or it didn't happen.
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