[HN Gopher] In 1995, 14 wolves were released into the wild in Ye...
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       In 1995, 14 wolves were released into the wild in Yellowstone
       National Park
        
       Author : unpredict
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2022-08-23 21:03 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | bombcar wrote:
       | https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1561730584329732096.html
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       | > An estimated 528 wolves resided in the Greater Yellowstone
       | Ecosystem as of 2015. As of December 2021, there are at least 95
       | wolves in the park. Eight packs were noted. This count marks a
       | decrease of 23% from 2020 but is close to the previous decade's
       | average end of year count (2010-2019 average = 94.5).
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       | https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolves.htm
        
         | wongarsu wrote:
         | > From 1995 to 1997, 41 wild wolves from Canada and northwest
         | Montana were released in Yellowstone
         | 
         | That's more than 14 (digits swapped?), but still not a lot from
         | a genetic health standpoint. Seems like there's some exchange
         | with other populations in the Northern Rocky Mountains, who in
         | turn mate with wolves from Canada, so it might be just fine.
         | But it's a bit weird for the article to even mention the issue,
         | only to then get lost in a tangent about one prevalent
         | mutation.
        
       | mrbombastic wrote:
       | Wasn't there an article about exactly this topic a few years ago
       | or am I crazy? Feels weird to do a tweet thread about it without
       | even a reference to it.
        
         | novantadue wrote:
         | Michael Crichton gave a talk covering these points.
        
         | thangalin wrote:
         | *
         | https://www.ted.com/talks/george_monbiot_for_more_wonder_rew...
         | 
         | * https://truenaturefoundation.org/research/how-wolves-
         | change-...
         | 
         | * https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scientists-
         | debun...
         | 
         | * https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/upload/YELLOWSTONE-
         | SCIENCE-24...
        
         | jjtheblunt wrote:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_reintroduction is related, I
         | think, with good biblio
        
         | iampuero wrote:
         | Main purpose of these type of tweets are to go viral and get
         | more followers. Hence no citing articles or anything useful
         | like that..
        
       | thoughtsimple wrote:
       | Scientists Debunk Myth About Yellowstone Wolves.
       | 
       | https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-debunk-myth-yellowstone-wo...
        
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       | wongarsu wrote:
       | > Within Yellowstone National Park, no hunting of wolves is
       | allowed. Outside the park, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming regulate
       | and manage hunting. Because wolves do not recognize political
       | boundaries and often move between different jurisdictions, some
       | wolves that live within the park for most of the year, but at
       | times move outside the park, are taken in the hunts
       | 
       | So there's a clear evolutionary advantage for wolves that do
       | recognize political boundaries. I wonder if that has long-term
       | effects on wolf-pack territories.
       | 
       | Edit: quote from
       | https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolves.htm, meant to answer
       | to bombcar who mentioned it
        
         | elgenie wrote:
         | That a behavior runs a higher risk of death doesn't mean that
         | it's a evolutionary disadvantage at all, let alone clearly.
         | 
         | You'd have to calculate out the rewards (is letting all of ones
         | cubs starve in order to avoid a 0.01% chance of getting hunted
         | good?), control for any correlated effects (perhaps respecting
         | political boundaries means being overly wary of Yellowstone
         | humans and thus less food), and also the standard worse-is-
         | better proof-of-fitness games involved in sexual competition (a
         | la peacock plumage).
        
           | yarg wrote:
           | There's a significant difference between knowingly and
           | unknowingly engaging in risky behaviour.
        
       | jonahbenton wrote:
       | Every post from whatever this twitter account is...is BS.
        
       | riffic wrote:
       | this could have been a blog post.
        
       | dkarl wrote:
       | Funny to see coyotes referred to as "jackals." They're similar in
       | size and ecological niche, but I thought biologists long ago
       | rejected the idea of grouping coyotes together with the jackal
       | species. Coyotes are more closely related to wolves.
       | 
       | EDIT: And of course saying "deer" instead of "elk." This reads
       | like someone either writing specifically for an audience that
       | doesn't know American wildlife, or someone trying to dodge the
       | plagiarism filter on a term paper.
        
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