Wolves slaughter 19 elk in 'sport killing'

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4. I've seen domesticated animals do this.

Dogs get in with a herd of small sheep and kill them all for fun. Cats get in with a flock of chickens and kill them all. I never knew wild animals would do this. It's definitely not a survival mechanism. In fact, it is anti-survival because killing for sport and leaving your prey will wipe out your herds very, very quickly (as man has discovered). Are they sure the wolves did it or is there a pack of stray dogs on the lose? This really sounds more like domesticated animal behavior.

When we first moved to the country, there were packs of wild dogs killing livestock left and right. Now that the coyotes have moved in, the former domesticated wild dogs and cats have gone and the mass slaughters have stopped. We still lose one or two lambs or chickens a year but not 5 to 20 at a time anymore.

The more I read about this the more I'm convinced that the wild wolf did NOT do this. Most wolves eat 90% of the carcass. Something happened here. Here's a link that goes in-depth about wolf kills and eating http://isleroyalewolf.org/node/42