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Bear Vs. Wolf: Fighting Over A Caribou Kill
Bear Vs. Wolf: Fighting Over A Caribou Kill
Photo by Donald M. Jones
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Wildlife photographer Donald M. Jones was shooting on the East Fork in Denali National Park, Alaska in September of 2004 when he caught the story shown in this slideshow on film. Some wolves had killed a bull caribou in the night, but when the sun came up a sow grizzly with two cubs of the year spotted them and chased them off the kill.
The wolves kept trying to retrieve their caribou, and the sow kept chasing them away. This repeated for a day and a half, after which the sow and her cubs decided they'd had enough. After they left the wolves returned (an alpha male and female), and had a half an hour with the kill before a large boar griz came along.
This big male gathered all the body parts (see elk leg photo), put them in one pile, then laid on top of it and fell asleep (last photo).
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Photo Gallery Comments (12)
I didn't see a lot of fighting pics. I did appear they were enjoying the same Caribou.
So was it a caribou with elk legs?
haha
Why did they call it elk legs??
Anyways cool pictures and good story...
Those appear to be 2 year cubs. Cubs 1 year cubs are much smaller. An Alaskan bear biologist told me they are usually 2 or 3 when the sow runs them off and mates again. Cool pics and a nice blond grizzley.
The light colored wolf appears to have a tracking collar. BTW Those collars devalue the skin by leaving the hair on the neck permanently rumpled. You can buy tanned wolf skins at the Alaskan fur exchange in Anchorage.
Pics 3 and 4 I would say the bear got him some head out of the deal. And pics 5 and 6 that is a little chunky cub.
Cool pics. That's a great nature story.
Reminds of a story. A man and wive hunting team returned to a moose he had shot the day before. They came back with horses to pack out the meat. There was a nice bear on the carcass and a nice wolf watching the bear. Husband wanted to shoot the wolf, the wife wanted to shoot the bear. During the argument that followed both predators escaped
Myles they should have shot them both. End of discussion would have been one, two, three, BOOM!!!
well I do have to say that in photo #9 it would appear almost as thou there is a tag on the caribou, most likely not , cameras do funny things...
Jeepdude1987.
You would have to know the two people, nothing was ever resolved without an argument. Think the world of both, but they happily not together anymore.
This is amazing.
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I didn't see a lot of fighting pics. I did appear they were enjoying the same Caribou.
So was it a caribou with elk legs?
haha
Why did they call it elk legs??
Anyways cool pictures and good story...
Those appear to be 2 year cubs. Cubs 1 year cubs are much smaller. An Alaskan bear biologist told me they are usually 2 or 3 when the sow runs them off and mates again. Cool pics and a nice blond grizzley.
The light colored wolf appears to have a tracking collar. BTW Those collars devalue the skin by leaving the hair on the neck permanently rumpled. You can buy tanned wolf skins at the Alaskan fur exchange in Anchorage.
Pics 3 and 4 I would say the bear got him some head out of the deal. And pics 5 and 6 that is a little chunky cub.
Cool pics. That's a great nature story.
Reminds of a story. A man and wive hunting team returned to a moose he had shot the day before. They came back with horses to pack out the meat. There was a nice bear on the carcass and a nice wolf watching the bear. Husband wanted to shoot the wolf, the wife wanted to shoot the bear. During the argument that followed both predators escaped
Myles they should have shot them both. End of discussion would have been one, two, three, BOOM!!!
well I do have to say that in photo #9 it would appear almost as thou there is a tag on the caribou, most likely not , cameras do funny things...
Jeepdude1987.
You would have to know the two people, nothing was ever resolved without an argument. Think the world of both, but they happily not together anymore.
This is amazing.
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