From: snuhwolf@Use-Author-Supplied-Address.invalid   
      
   Wanderer wrote:   
   > "§nühw¤£f"  wrote in message   
   > news:201201171603.UTC.jf464a$r6l$1@tioat.net...   
   >> So the bears tracks were obscured by the wolves who fed on the already   
   >> dead carcass.   
   >>   
   >> Got it.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Sorry, no.  Unless the wolves were following the presumed bear *en masse*,   
   > you'd still have bear prints in the vicinity.  Heck, they could even see   
   > where a fox had stopped by to see what was going on after the wolves left;   
   > the bear hypothesis requires evidence which does not exist.   
   >   
   > That's before you notice that the wolf tracks, as I mentioned before, are a   
   > textbook stalk:   
   >   
   > 1 wolf follows him from the lake, cutting off his retreat.   
   > 2 wolves or more proceed ahead of him, and begin "herding" him to cut him   
   > off from his "herd".   
   >   
   > Once he was steered off the trail, he was on wolf-favored ground.  He made a   
   > brave run for it, true, but by then he was already dead; he just needed to   
   > be eaten.  He spilled most of his blood when they started to hamstring him   
   > from behind, and didn't get much further before he died.  Then the other   
   > humans interrupted the pack feast, but hey, it happens.  That's why the   
   > wolves dragged the carcass into a shady area for better protection from big   
   > strangers that don't leave you alone to finish eating.   
   >   
   > The prints support this being done by wolves.  There are neither bear   
   > tracks, nor bear spoor, nor bear fur, nor bear sightings in the area.  The   
   > only bite marks on the carcass are from wolves.  (The fox didn't stay for   
   > lunch.)  And there were wolves sighted in the area; no bears.  Plus, a wolf   
   > killed soon after had fabric in his stomach.   
   >   
   > I'm sorry, Snuh, but wolves eat meat, and humans are made of meat.  It's   
   > nothing personal, you understand.  Just survival.   
   >   
      
   Pretty funny coming from a guy who dosnt live in snow country, dosnt   
   live in wolf country and has likely never seen a dead carcass of any   
   kind up close. I spend more time in the woods than you do eating your 3   
   squares a day.   
      
      
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