The AP has an article out claiming that wolves don’t hurt other animal populations.
Yet here’s a counterexample to that.
A pack of nine wolves has killed 19 elk in what is being described as a “sport killing” near Bondurant, Wyoming, officials have said.
John Lund of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department expressed concern over the killings, because wolves usually eat what they kill but this time left the dead elk alone. He told CNN: “It appears to be a sport killing.”
Although many species engage in surplus killing – killing without the intention to eat – it is rare amongst wolves, and this particular attack was especially brutal.
Mr Lund told USA Today: “Something triggered and they went crazy and just took down each elk and moved onto the next”.
I’m guessing that the wolves have been domesticated over the last year… </sarcasm>