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> Bottom line to remember about any wolf studies is this: they don't transfer to other wolf locations. This paper is relevant for Wisconsin only. How and why?
by CRConrad 5y ago
> Bottom line to remember about any wolf studies is this: they don't transfer to other wolf locations. This paper is relevant for Wisconsin only.
How and why? Are Wisconsin wolves somehow fundamentally different than other wolves; a different species or something? I find your thesis hard to swallow. Occam's razor suggests that since they're wolves, they behave like other wolves.
- arminiusreturns 5y agoDifferent wolf breeds and different environments (for example, elk heavy animal pops are different to hunt than deer, variations in forest type, elevation, water sources, human pop within radius, etc) combined make for too many variables.
- CRConrad 5y agoSo they react like most wolves to most of those variables, and therefore the sum total of their behaviour is about the same as other populations of wolves in areas where the variables have similar values? Not sure about terrain and population density in Wisconsin, but at a guess, they probably behave much like wolves in central Sweden or Finland then.