Grey Wolves.....DU warning 11 images

[Wulff 0]

Spent the better part of a day watching a pack of grey wolves. While not entirely free as they are captive within a 15 acre enclosure, human intervention/contact with staff is kept to a minimum and theres no socialisation whatsoever. So not quite wild but sooo much more than zoo animals. Kind of a happy medium.

 

Heres the a bunch of mostly portraits Ive processed.

 

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5 If you look closely you can see the remains of a previous meal just behind. More on that in anotherpost

 

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7 Got to see some aplha squables

 

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12 the lone black wolf. She just happens to be a pup.

 

Thanks for looking

[Mokai 0]

Great set Wulff..Awesome....

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

excellent pics thanks very much for sharing

[JayMorr 0]

Very nice Wulff! They turned out great!

 

 

Nice Work.

[Graham 0]

Looks like you had a great day today, with sweet lighting. Fantastic photos!!! Very interesting as well.

 

Graham

[Peterjay 0]

Wonderful pictures John. I recently saw a documentary about a British guy who was studying wolf behavior in an enclosure that was similar to the one you described. I guess he spent about a year or so down on all fours wearing the same set of unwashed coveralls (to maintain his scent) and became the alpha male of the pack. He got pretty torn up in the fighting and spent a lot of time being stitched up, but he hung in there and the wolves accepted him. I didn't watch the whole thing, because the sight of the man on his hands and knees gnawing on less-than-fresh roadkill was more than I could take, and I can take practically anything. He said his family left him during the project, which should come as no surprise to anyone who watched the show.

[Vito1 0]

Wonderful shots! Thanks for sharing.

[Wulff 0]

Thanks everyone.

 

Peterjay, thanks for the head up, Im probably going to see if I can find that. Wolves and Loons are probably my favorite subjects in the animal kingdom, a documentary of that nature would appeal to me. In some small ways its almost reminiscent of the grizzly man.

 

As for feeding well I was lucky there to. They ( the park) don't advertise when they are going to feed the pack, its pretty irregular. Lucky for me I got witness their behavior and capture it

Its something else to see first hand and again its nothing like what one might expect.

 

[Redwings1 0]

Great shots!

[Peterjay 0]

John, I believe the documentary aired on The Discovery Channel or one of its offshoots. I can't recall the name of the show, but they tend to repeat stuff a lot, so it'll undoubtedly turn up again. I'll drop you a note if I spot it. The Wolfman went way beyond what the grizzly guy did, participating in all pack activities, with the (possible) exception of mating with a she-wolf. Fascinating stuff.

[Will Milne 0]

John - tremendous images:)))

 

I got goosebumps:))- a few years ago I float planed into a remote Manitoba lake. Weather was good and we canoed accross the lake- maybe 5 km across the lake ,to the back of some islands , into a deep channel looking for lakers.

 

Late in the day we came out from behind the islands/channel and found ourselves trapped in 5-6' swells and waves, as storm blew in!!!!!

 

Aieee- we made it to shore and hunkered down for the night. Made a shelter, started a fire and brewed up some coffee on the Kelly Kettle.

 

Night turned into day and the storm just kept on going!!!

 

We decided to abandon the canoe and walk back through the bush to the float plane pickup point.

 

11 hrs later we got there, by which time it was snowing- LOL

 

On the way, clambering through some rock outcrops along the lakeshore, we climbed up a table rock about 10'x15' and on jumping down into the gully below , we realized we were standing at the entrance to a wolf den!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lots of scat/lots of smell and lots of prints!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. There was still heat coming out from the cave below the rock!!!!!!.

 

 

Great pics but I'm glad those folks wer'nt home:))))))

 

 

Will