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Related: About this forum‘Famous’ Wolf Is Killed Outside Yellowstone
"Yellowstone National Parks best-known wolf, beloved by many tourists and valued by scientists who tracked its movements, was shot and killed on Thursday outside the parks boundaries, Wyoming wildlife officials reported.
The wolf, known as 832F to researchers, was the alpha female of the parks highly visible Lamar Canyon pack and had become so well known that some wildlife watchers referred to her as a rock star. The animal had been a tourist favorite for most of the past six years.
The wolf was fitted with a $4,000 collar with GPS tracking technology, which is being returned, said Daniel Stahler, a project director for Yellowstones wolf program. Based on data from the wolfs collar, researchers knew that her pack rarely ventured outside the park, and then only for brief periods, Dr. Stahler said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/science/earth/famous-wolf-is-killed-outside-yellowstone.html?ref=nateschweber&_r=0
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‘Famous’ Wolf Is Killed Outside Yellowstone (Original Post)
wtmusic
Dec 2012
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The deliberate killing of these beautiful creatures in the name of 'hunting' is sickening.
sinkingfeeling
Dec 2012
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1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)1. This strikes me as kind of twisted ...
Many ranchers and hunters say the wolf hunts are a reasonable way to reduce attacks on livestock and protect big game populations.
Protect big game populations from the wolves that survive on them, so that humans can kill them for sport?
(and yes, imho, humans hunting big game is killing for sport, even if the hunter ends up eating it.)
wtmusic
(39,166 posts)3. Attempting to rationalize their bloodlust is what's twisted
just like dressing up their idols in Enlightenment-era clothes.
stuntcat
(12,022 posts)4. and calling wild animals "big game populations" is sickening to me
Why can't people shake off their bullshyt visors for a few minutes and see what we're doing to the planet WE need to live?
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)2. The deliberate killing of these beautiful creatures in the name of 'hunting' is sickening.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)5. If I was on that research team, I would pay *very* careful attention to the last data received ...
> The wolf was fitted with a $4,000 collar with GPS tracking technology, which is being returned, ...
> Based on data from the wolfs collar, researchers knew that her pack rarely ventured outside the park,
> and then only for brief periods
... specifically, to find out exactly *when* the collar moved outside the park and if it moved in the usual
manner (or if it was being driven out on a dead wolf) ...
I know that coincidences do happen but I get suspicious of some of them.
Tumbulu
(6,278 posts)6. Very good points
I would not be surprised.....