Beware the vicious wolf!

[line_dangler]

Your pictures do not necessarilly support your opinion that wolves kill for sport. The pictures show an elk killed by wolves and nothing else. In fact, wolf "sport" killing has not been specifically difined by Biologists. It is a human term coined to describe unexplained killings by predatory animals. Many predatros will kill and return a long while after, also there have been documented "territorial" displays, which use killed pray as "border" displays for wolves, lions, and other predators. Energy wise, wild animal "sport" killing does not make any sense. If wild predators went about "sport" killing, they would soon deplete their food source, as well as waste energy. Wolves in Canada have been known to kill, then leave prey for a few days. This mostly happens in winter, and after they return, they will drag it away to a safer spot for future use, call it "cashing" maybe, for harsh times. They may sometimes not remember where they have been or where they hid a particular kill, so it may appear to humans to be "sport" kill. There are also possibly other perfectly biological reasons for seing killed prey with no wolves returning. If someone stayed at the site hidden from view long enough, odds are the wolves will return. So lets all be more tidious and carefull before we blatantly and adamantly try to make a predator like the wolf, a "sport" killer.[]
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