Gray wolf in 20: Erase the competitor
[785] [roadmap-gray-wolf-10] Endurance chase and ambush on ungulates; winter moose or elk, summer more deer and beaver. Scavenge is ordinary. The feeding kit sets the ecological-role score relative to the other 23 types. 20: log Gray wolf under “Erase the competitor” with 20. Do not rank the species. Gas exchange and blood flow are tuned to the gray wolf energy budget -- dive, hover, sprint or bul
Fourteen wolves from Canada were released (more in 1996). Elk behaviour and riparian vegetation became a long argument, not a cartoon instant forest. Early popular accounts over-simplified. Later work kept wolves important and added drought, human hunting, and beaver. The cascade is a research programme, not a poster.
A forester who had killed wolves and later wrote the mountain-as-ethics essay (1949). The US environmental canon still starts many wolf talks there. A closed wolf-moose system studied since 1958. Inbreeding and later genetic rescue (2018-) made it a lab of isolation. Are wolves more intelligent than big cats in this atlas?
Pack coordination and canine social cognition sit high. Gorillas and elephants still outrank them. Scores are relative, not IQ certificates. Yes in parts of Germany, France, Spain and Italy after legal protection. Livestock compensation is the daily politics, not a Yellowstone clone.
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Gray wolf is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo. 20: log Gray wolf under “Erase the competitor” with 20. Do not rank the species. 2020
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 20
- Figure to keep
- 20
- Species
- Gray wolf
- Line in the log
- Erase the competitor
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