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Just in case you needed a reminder of how big wolves actually are… because sometimes when there’s no context for size, I tend to think of them as a lot smaller than they really are.
Adorable
Mexican gray wolf yawning by T Wheatley
day off
Decided to pop into Belgium for a bit
“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.” Blaise Pascal
Photo by Diane Wood
February 25, 2016 - A local wolf pack takes down a female elk on a railway overpass near the Banff townsite in Banff National Park, leading to an hour-long spectacle to slow down trains and remove the carcass.
The wolves had trapped the elk on a train overpass and wore the much larger animal down with continuous lunges and bites. Afterward, Parks Canada staff asked Canadian Pacific to slow its trains to a crawl through the area for about an hour so they could remove the elk carcass and prevent any of the wolves from being hit on the track.
Normally they leave the carcass out for the wolves to eat, but there was nowhere they could move it safely, so it’s being stored in a large freezer until they can put it out in a secure location.
“We’ll get (it) back out on to the landscape in the spring,” says Steve Michel, human/wildlife conflict specialist with Banff National Park. “It’s unfortunate — we always like to give them the opportunity to keep it in the location where it’s been killed, but it doesn’t always work out that way.”
“Dear Mexican wolf pups, may you dream of a world where vibrant populations Mexican wolves roam landscapes across the American southwest; where lobos no longer cower on the edge of extinction; and where every child learns of, and respects, your essential kin #SaveTheLobo” [x]
‘Kira, give me your best pose!’
‘…okay.’
Šumava was fun :)
Summer in the city 🍦🍺🍹
Posing outside the dept. of pathology building
