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The typical moose killed is about 12 years old and suffers from arthritis, osteoporosis, and/or periodontitis. [20] Eighty to ninety percent of moose are brought down by wolves rather than directly by disease, [21] and each wolf kills an average of between 0.44 and 1.69 moose per month. [22]
The wolf was killed in Calhoun County, roughly 300 miles (482 kilometers) south of the Upper Peninsula, during coyote hunting season. The DNR said it learned about it through social media posts.
The count of moose and wolves on a Michigan island may be rendered a pandemic mystery after an annual winter wildlife study was frozen by COVID-19. The National Park Service said Friday it will ...
Due to genetic inbreeding, the wolf population had declined to two individuals in 2016, causing researchers to expect that the island's wolf population would eventually become extinct. [41] At the same time, the island's moose population had exploded to an estimated 1600. [42] By November 2017, the wolf population was down to one, a female. [40]
The wolf was killed in January by a hunter who told investigators that he had mistaken it for a coyote. It was a shock: While gray wolves are common in Michigan's Upper Peninsula — the latest estimate is more than 700 — the state's southern Lower Peninsula doesn't offer the proper habitat.
The moose population, meanwhile, stood at 840, down 14% from last year. Overall, the moose population has declined by almost 60% since 2019, when the population peaked at a little more than 2,000 ...
The island is well known among ecologists as the site of a long-term study of a predator-prey system, between moose and eastern timber wolves. L. David Mech began this study in 1958 as a graduate student at Purdue University. [21] There is a cyclical relationship between the two animals: as the moose increase in population, so do the wolves.
Michigan’s gray wolf population in the Upper Peninsula is estimated to be its highest in 12 years and may have reached its natural limit, the state’s Department of Natural Resources said in a ...