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Do Wolves Kill for Sport?


Animals  (tags: wolves, survival, endangered, massacred, tragedy, wildife )

Simone
- 12 days ago - slate.com
During this fall's inaugural wolf-hunting season in Montana, hunters killed the matriarch of a Yellowstone wolf pack that researchers had been studying for more than a decade. Park officials suspect that her mate and three other pack members were also
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B. M. (78)
Saturday November 7, 2009, 7:31 am
I can not think of any animals
that kills just for sport or fun.

Man is.............The only one.
Man is beyond being human or animal.
More like savages!!

Knock on wood-Plant trees for life........
 

Kathleen L. (0)
Sunday November 8, 2009, 11:44 am
This is a ridciulous claim. And how can't they call this wolf hunt, pure murder!!
 

BigCatRescue A. (184)
Sunday November 8, 2009, 11:59 am
humans have demonized wolves for ages because we lack a true understanding of nature, and tend to fear the unknown, humans are the only animals that kill for sport
 

Shirley H. (28)
Sunday November 8, 2009, 12:37 pm
Wolves are incredible animals. They kill only for what they can eat and to keep their tribe fed. They certainly do not kill for the sport of it.
Shirley H.
 

Patricia N. (14)
Sunday November 8, 2009, 1:56 pm
We were created after the animals and I believe it was because God wanted us to take care of them and humans are doing a horrible job of it. Humans are the only ones who kill for the sport of it or for entertainment or because they are mentally unstable they have no soul or heart.
 

Sherri O. (114)
Sunday November 8, 2009, 9:57 pm
You are so right, Patricia N. We were put on this earth to be the gardeners and shepherds, to tend God's creation. Some where along the line, man decided he was God's gift to the universe and proceeded to plunder and kill everything that moved.

Man hunts for kicks, for fun. Animals hunt for survival. They take the weakest, making herds stronger.
 

Lyn C. (26)
Sunday November 8, 2009, 11:08 pm
When it comes to the killing of wolves, these killers and the people that want the killing done are trying to continue living in the storyland of Little Red Riding Hood. Did they never learn that wolves kill for survival, unlike man, who kills for "sport". I never did learn how man can call killing unarmed, probably awfully tired from running away from man, a necessary duty of mankind! Let's call it what it is, slaughtering of an annoyance to "sport hunters", and a very occasional bother to cattle owners.

When you take wolves out of the natural order of things, the hooved animal population suffers, by way of not having it's natural thinning out of the weakest, and oldest, who in many instances starve to death slowly. They can not keep up with the heard if old, or sickly, and the sickly can pass on less than good genes to next generations.

Put simply men like to kill wolves and do get apparently great thrills out of it, and wolves kille to survive!

To all those good old boys who like to "sport" shoot wolves, or even the ones who say they must "cull" the wolves to save their cattle, they are put in a lady like way, full of baloney! Wolves neither need nor should be killed!!
 

David B. (14)
Monday November 9, 2009, 12:20 am
now myself i think we were put on this earth to show animals how really fortunate they are to be what they are and not as we are!as the article said other than us only one other animal kills for sport and that's cause we taught them.aren't we to be so proud of ourselves.another gold star beside the name of our species. they are so beautiful,and inteligent,with total family bonds that most of our human families could only dream of developing!and yet the kill-happy red-necks in the west just couldn't wait to start the slaughterof these beautiful creatures!how did we end up as such a discusting species?? i don't understand ! thank you Simone!
 

Catrina W. (4)
Sunday November 15, 2009, 4:32 pm
if wolves didn't kill and not eat everything than the ravens foxes coyotes...etc. would starve.
what the stupid hunters are doing is sport killing the poor wolves. the're trying to get their enemies (animal activists) to become their friends! DON'T BELIEVE THESE STUPID LIERS!
 
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