Arizona's Endangered Mexican Wolves

See what Arizona Game and Fish and its federal, tribal and private partners are doing to recover the endangered Mexican wolf.
This video was created by the Information Branch of the Arizona Game and Fish Department. Additional photos and video courtesy of George Andrejko, the Interagency Field Team, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

[@randallbates9020]

As someone who is a landowner and lives in this very region of east/central Arizona I want to point out that many of these ranchers raise their livestock partly on public lands. Those lands belong to everyone not just the ranchers. My 40 acres is alongside public land and I have exchanged some sharp words with ranch hands telling me it's all free range and their cattle have a right to graze through my property, so if that's the case those wolves have every right to live unmolested in the same public land. I have never had any offer to repair my crop damage from these same ranchers when they free graze their cattle through my fields and the only alternative is to put up a fence which I don't want to do because I enjoy seeing the elk and deer and pronghorns come through occasionally. Maybe we should stop all ranching on public lands and see how well that goes over. I am not trying to be a snit just stating that there are two sides to every situation. Public lands are public lands and belong to every American, its just that simple.

[@wolfgangjasper9336]

Much respect to you partner. 💯 Gotta love the wildlife

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

Well said! Thank you!

[@Cortez142232]

I agree! Much respect

[@kharris9359]

Shephards!!!!! Cattle, sheep, and goats should never be left unattended. ...Unless Jesus is born again so they need to go adore him in the manger.

[@HinduBoy]

No collars!!!

[@donna71820]

Thank you for participating in Mexican wolf recovery. They are an important species to have on the landscape.

[@Materbater753]

Also deep west Texas

[@Materbater753]

I wish they could bring them back to Texas I think they could survive in oke Forrest right😂

[@richardcollins3825]

We came across a Mexican wolf while hiking along the Sycamore ridge. Thankfully it ran away from us. I couldn't believe how big it was. Absolutely beautiful animals.

[@Wasserkaktus]

Mexican Wolves and Jaguars should be reintroduced to the Arizona Corridor to help fight the Feral Swine invasion there.

[@aj9883]

I know right. It would be so easy if we put in effort. I'm tryna get involved in some sort of captive breeding program.

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

Excellent suggestion!

[@wildwoman6217]

Swine? Javalina?they are not actually pigs they are rodents lol

[@codyerickson3550]

Same with the Grand Canyon area. Too many bison up there and not enough predators that can take them down effectively to control their numbers.

[@tjdillashaw2703]

Lol it starts with trying to get rid of feral swine. Then it's how do we get rid of all these jaguars and wolves 🤦

[@laurah9751]

Keep working to increase their numbers, these wolves are needed to keep a balance. I hope one day to be able see these beautiful creatures throughout our state.

[@natureisallpowerful]

I hope they thrive

[@cacatr4495]

The wolf's (past) absence is why Coyote numbers are so high.

[@randygonzalez1375]

They are destroying the gila forest. You don't see wildlife anymore. Ranchers are loosing out on a lot They are efficient killers and it's Bs this was allowed

[@rypatmackrock]

@@cacatr4495 because unless they mix and have hybrid litters; strong wolf packs and coyotes hold a rivalry, where usually the wolves show dominance.

[@cacatr4495]

@@rypatmackrock There is no rivalry between wolves and coyotes. The latter is on the former's menu. Coyotes avoid wolves the way dolphins avoid Orcas: coyotes are on the lower end of the food chain and they know it. They're completely outclassed by wolves, there's no competition at all. To suggest that there's a rivalry between them is absurd, dishonest or ignorant. The differences between them are great. Coyotes are fearful and timid, even in a large pack, I know from personal experience. They are, at most, half the weight of wolves while the latter is bold and strong. Their hunting abilities don't begin to compare. There has never been rivalry between the two, just as there has never been rivalry between cougars and bobcats or cougars and jaguars.

[@idkanymore8490]

For the farmer I would recommend a LDG livestock guardian dogs

[@drugbuddy665]

LGD are a good solution for some situations, but at the end of the day, predators are a part of the ecosystem and we & our livestock are not. You have to accept some losses when you're encroaching on the habitats of wildlife that has lived here for tens of thousands of years. The problem is that our government doesn't care enough about wildlife or small farmers & ranchers enough to support them through this; they really think their profit margins will improve if they destroy ecosystems by removing predators. As if we do not already have enough problems with prey overpopulation from coast to coast that damage crops!! Farmers used to beg us to take deer off their land in the northeast because guess what? That's what happens when you remove wolves!!

[@allstarpterosaur850]

@@drugbuddy665 well said, dude or dudette.

[@codyerickson3550]

A Llama would work good too. We had one on our ranch for many years. Predators learned to stay away from our cattle not too long after.

[@xdivineHART]

Can you guys make a video of the differences of a cayote vs a mexican wolf? I feel like that would be an important video, since then kinda look the same, one can be hunted all year round, while the other is protected.

[@Huracan1111]

It's really easy to tell the difference. Coyotes are small wolves are big.

[@xdivineHART]

@@Huracan1111 not always easy to tell, especially when they are far away. Any other tell?

[@scorpio65248]

Wolf are the original settler not the rancher

[@jimmygarcia-hu4xb]

You're right 👍 This isn't Europe.

[@homegrownluv8106]

For the farmer don’t forget the wolves were here way before you and your family started your ranch so essentially your in their territory. It’s sad that us humans are the wolves now and the wolves the sheep. But most ranchers feel killing them off rather then finding a solution is the best way to go.

[@alberg8]

The solution is to end animal agriculture

[@edk2221]

Hopefully, they reintroduce wolves to west Texas. We owe them at least that much

[@temp24Lno5]

Great to see my old friends, Mary and John Theberge in the thick of things. I do admire the work they have done for the wolves in Algonquin Park. Let's hope these Mexican wolves do better than the Algonquin ones in Canada. Thanks to the Arizona Game and Fish and to the natives and also to the ranchers who put up with their losses. Let us hope it will all work out,. Joan

[@PavleBalenovic]

Joan Ouellette Thanks for sharing this Joan. I noticed the similarity of these wolves with gray wolves here thou they look a bit smaller. It is not clear to me what was their original natural food there, the prey to understand why they attack the cattle. Perhaps they can't get enough food in the wild. In my country if more goats and sheep were kept in the area more wolves came around. Once wolves become protected by law damages are payed to local farmers and the government helps them with guard dogs and fences etc. Here the cattle and sheep are often free not fenced that means out of control and guard. For the loss of any animal which is simply left without care they could get quite nice money. Interesting. Then hunters tried to limit that protection so now some quota for killing is agreed and allowed. For them it is not easy to hunt in the area where some species are protected. In reality seems like nothing changed much for wolves and all this is a fake protection to satisfy the public. Killing goes on and nobody is ever punished for that. The truth is wolves are leaving this area for sure. We expected that the foreign visitor would mean a sort of public control over the care for endangered species but it turns that we got overcrowded natural parks that become tourist destinations. In the time when wolf families would need the peace to raise their cubs before their first test to survive, the first winter just in the same time, the middle of summer thousands of people roam all over the mountain lines. It does not have sense any more. I noticed the wildlife in some unexpected spots, obviously disoriented in a sort of panic where to hide. Bear sows with cubs often come close to villages on fruits for they cant get berries in the wild. This is too small country to accept all kind of tourists and here no place for wolves is left. Most of visitors to the mountains are foreign hunters. They say they like nature. Because of economic crisis every money is important and tourism is quick and easy way. The country invested into new highways to accept more visitors .. that means less and less wolves. The only little hope is long winter that helps the rest of wildlife to survive. The future won't take any good. We made the climate to change dramatically. Does anybody see it affects the wildlife, too. I do not believe in such the projects with total control, do not like collared wolves at all. If this is scientific than I do not like the science today. This will soon be hybrid wildlife and fake wilderness. I do not worry much about wolves, they plan families if they have the chances to survive or they run away if the area "stinks" on human. They do not need us. But people .. we are cutting the branch that we are sitting on. For a few "poor" farmers with hundreds of cows we are loosing last possible wild wolves ... this can't ever be repaired. No compromise. Thanks Joan

[@cacatr4495]

@@PavleBalenovic The Mexican Gray Wolf is a subspecies of the Gray Wolf found in the northwest of the country, and is a bit smaller. They have plenty of food: the area is thick with Elk, the Mexican Gray Wolf's preferred food. Although there are tourists to this area of Arizona, there is a great amount of land-space for the Wolves to roam, to be away from humans.

[@PavleBalenovic]

@I Hate You All I could simply delete your comment but why should I? I do not hate you because I do not know you at all. Perhaps you have the reason for that. But only idiot can name unknown person the way you did here. Guess why or grow up and you will know the answer.

[@cherylkirkland3971]

I pray to God all the time that we never lose are beloved Wolves

[@cacatr4495]

I pray we will never lose our beloved Mustangs.

[@natureisallpowerful]

Amen

[@pumasgoya]

Who said that was HIS land? He'll respond that it was his father's and his father's father's, but how was it first acquired? Where are the original inhabitants of these lands? Probably on a dry, waterless reservation.

[@Thelastdan]

So then do the Apache give that land back to whatever tribe they took it from? Then should that tribe give it back to those before them? See how dumb your virtue signaling is. Do better

[@jimmygarcia-hu4xb]

@@Thelastdan You're full of shit !!!.

[@caballoarabe]

Thanks guys for biringing back this endangered wolf

[@kellyambron6662]

Can ranchers use llamas to protect their herds ?

[@Misfits89]

Kelly Ambron invest in sheep dogs.. those dogs are badass and keep wolves away

[@MbisonBalrog]

I don’t think Llamas are a match

[@MbisonBalrog]

@@Misfits89 that is what humans used for millennia

[@huntershopene4312]

if I was a rancher I'd invest in livestock guardian dogs, kangal, anatolian, akbash, the bigger, more agressive ones that'll deter the wolves

[@Wasserkaktus]

If recent events regarding just how much environmental resources and damage cattle ranching does, couple with the fact that it was the demand for animal products that has lead us to this Coronavirus pandemic which has upended the world order more than anything else, maybe it's time to start abandoning most animal farming for plants.

[@Dgbygvg]

@@Wasserkaktus hell no, we need food, protein!

[@Wasserkaktus]

@@Dgbygvg Legumes provide more protein than any of those meats do.

[@Misfits89]

now to bring back the juaguar or pantera. that we will awosome to have the wolf the puma and the juaguar

[@LJsReef]

THE CURE and ocelots

[@cacatr4495]

Jaguar, Cougar/Puma, and Ocelot are in Arizona. I recently saw footage of Jaguar and Ocelot, and there isn't any lack of Cougar/Puma/Mountain Lion, which I've seen myself.

[@cacatr4495]

Jaguar has been sighted/photographed by stationed night cameras in the Santa Rita Mountains of southern Arizona, and in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona (also Ocelot). Doubtless, it also traversed the Huachuca Mountains between. You can see these videos I saved, in my large, organized Arizona playlist. 2 years ago, I didn't even know Arizona had Jaguar, and to see it in footage, is amazing. The Jaguar makes the Mountain Lion/Cougar/Puma look small, lithe and delicate by comparison. The Jaguar is truly the only Big Cat this continent has. (See the Santa Rita Mountains/Madera Canyon section of the playlist, which is towards the end of the overall Tucson section, not long after the Green Valley section. Those videos are before the Picacho Peak section, as the playlist travels north from Tucson. The playlist begins with the Arizona Monsoon and subsequent flooding, then begins the Tucson section. There are also videos of some of Arizona's Mustangs, wild horses, later in the playlist, as well as videos of all the various kinds of wildlife of the region that I could find, including this video and others of the Mexican Gray Wolf. Each video is placed in the playlist where the animal, scenery, terrain was photographed.)

[@Squintel7]

@@cacatr4495 Just becuase jaguars are bigger doesn't make the cougar any less powerful. Are leopards not big cats either becuase they live with tigers and lions? No. Jaguars are what tigers are to leoaprds- their superiors but they still respect eachother and cougars are BIGGER than leopards, so yes. They are a "big cat" by every definition of the word.

[@Vicdiesel-vt1uk]

I just passed by a wolf dead on the side of the road he was huge grayish fur coat on the Phoenix bypass interstate 8

[@cresencioallinargonzalez6944]

WONDERFUL WOLVES MEXICAN.

[@Huracan1111]

When I was a little girl about 30 years ago my parents bought a couple acres of land in Southern AZ. We would go and look at the land before our home was built and we always saw wolf packs out there. There was barely any homes out there at the time. I find it hard to believe that only 7 where left.

[@dofodamofo]

Probably coyotes

[@JasonMillerOutdoors]

Where in Southern Az did you see them?

[@littlewolf9867]

me and my cousins used to howl with the wolves from a distance every time we howled ,they would howl back to us. man I miss those days

[@Dillon-up8zj]

Hi. Northern California resident outside the sacramento basin. Grew up here in the rurals, mountain lions, bears and snow are often found ( both the mountain lions and the bears eat our house cats ). I have a very nice and funny hypothesis, well i'd call it exact but of course there's debate needed. I have seen the red fox many times, especially during the rain months here north into placer county. I walk in our green space, you could call it the rurals all around. Birds, hawks fly through, hare, i see, wildlife every day. In the green space, the last year, i have startled multiple coyotes in the tree copse. 5 diferent occasions, all in the afternoon. To my post, our red wolf. Last week, in the afternoon sun, orange light, 7:40 early sunset. I spot a medium sized fox, lanky, fed. clean. coat well and healthy. A large fox. smaller than a border collie. He came out of the brush and crossed the road. i was walking on, and on first sight i though small coyote. i didn't look directly at him, didnt to startle him, an even coat. The fox stopped, and looked back to me. I looked at him, and when turning back to my path in periphial vision, at 7:40, i distinctly seen red coloring, his entire back, and the tawny color around his belly and his legs were tawny. Just a red fox, large guy. Now i took science courses in all the schooling i have done. A physical science i took my senior year in high school had videos of mexican wolves during the wolf course. most of the film was helicopter over border southern us and had lots of good shots of moving mexican red wolves. it was a 2001 video. 18 years ago was my senior year, and i believe the number then was 160 mexican wolves in the wild. This large fox is exactly the same as full sized mexican red wolves. Identical. A fox, a different coat, same color red. Exactly looks like a mexican red wolf. Like i said, see wildlife all the time, and throughout my life here in placer county, red foxes all the time. And yes that includes 3 shot red foxes, 2 hit by car red foxes. All the correct size. two and a half feet in length. sixteen inches off the ground. I enjoy the living ones much better. They kill chickens, but what doesn't. and the fox is beautiful and usually friendly. Here north of the delta pushing the eastern side, positioned on the foothills from the basins. its a more or less positive place for wildlife and they can roam western and down from tahoe national forest. Positive being that there is many places for them to go and travel back and forth. Social norms is animals of differing size and quantity of food intake, more or less determines if types of animal will sleep or burrow near each other. Again, the lanky, skinny but healthy fox i saw was a large damned fox. twenty inches tall, three feet long. I have to say again, his bone structure, walking lope, exactly a mexican red wolf. there was no loping tongue, black and gray spottled gums and lips. solid colored tail but i did not see quite what color was his tail. Now, foxes all my life. in the last year, i have seen foxes three times, three different groups. two foxes red, one a speckled gray and black coated fox. Now what i want to know, if theres dog sized foxes, and mexican red wolves are small wolves, can groups of larger red fox mate with mexican red wolves? And to that fact with a large fox, my mind says theres are just mexican wolves in north california. And on that thought i would preach peace on the whole idea that mexican wolves are going extinct. Thank you

[@jameschrist7007]

This is a wonderful success story. Only 7 were left. Thank God there are Teddy Roosevelt types out there that recognize how important it is to protect animals and ecosystems. It's a shame so many fools, often very recent to these lands, want to wipe out a species that has lived for thousands of years with the people who lived in these lands. In areas of Africa, India, and South America they pen the livestock and then cut down the grasses in grazing lands and bring it to the livestock. That protects both animals, domestic and wild.

[@MbisonBalrog]

Isn’t better to let animal graze naturally. They then defecate over land and fertilize

[@888zzz]

Do ten minutes of research on how devastating livestock grazing has been to the environment.

[@cacatr4495]

Yes, please observe that.

[@stripes7153]

Why would we care about the environment over our own well-being?

[@cacatr4495]

@@stripes7153 Mankind's well-being is dependent on the interconnected well-being of Nature.

[@elcajondavid1]

888zzz. Hogwash! Livestock grazing has many benefits, especially during the fire season out west. People always push the bad things first, before they push the good things.

[@cacatr4495]

@@elcajondavid1 Wolves aren't "bad." Bovine cattle are renown for eating an area down to bare soil, for denuding the area around their water source. They also kill trees by stripping and eating the bark off trees. Cattle can decimate an area like no other. It is the Mustangs that eat flammable under-grasses, under the snow even during the winter that the cattle don't eat. Mustangs don't kill trees or eat bark, they don't denude the land but migrate, eating lightly as they go, never decimating an area. Please watch the program Lords of Nature, about the hugely positive changes that Wolves have brought to Yellowstone in Yellowstone's recovery. Elk were killing trees as they wandered unabated into river bank areas where they did a lot of damage because the wolves hadn't been there through much of the 20th century to keep balance. Wolves have returned balance to Yellowstone, and the trees along the river's edge are able to grow again and gain height, because the wolves are keeping the elk in check. With the recovery of those trees, huge numbers of other wildlife species, birds included, have returned to Yellowstone, even fish numbers are up, flowers too, as the rivers, their banks and the overall environment are much healthier now.

[@rypatmackrock]

I am yet to visit this habitat and see the packs for myself, yet I do live in proximity to one of the recovery centers in Julian California; close to San Diego where I live. I have visited to see these wolves several times, and it is an experience. On the other hand after visiting Scottsdale several times over, and only recently learning about the javelinas, who thinks that the wolves should possibly be introduced to where javelina squadrons or herds are taking over, like in the outskirts of greater Phoenix, and maybe Sedona where the javelinas feasted on the golf course grass? Much to talk about regarding that; as I do not doubt that the wolves will definitely scare javelinas away and eat them.

[@slanderman3296]

I've seen one there. He was chasing a coyote.

[@fcb1980]

Gracias 🙏 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️✌️👍🐆🐅🐆

[@Scaredycat55]

The Wolf Recovery Program has been so incredibly effective in bringing back the Mexican Gray Wolves and I love the Wolves but I'm very concerned for their Recovery. We must do everything possible to stem domestic livestock losses which can put ranchers out of Business which plays wrong for the Recovery Program. Maybe in the mean time we could take public donations to help cover losses and move quickly towards technology's that will drive Wolves away from livestock areas

[@Thekurgan-xn6ny]

Screw getting rid of wolves there elegant and intelligent animals who are also noble and kind. A famous quote from a medicine man I know from the navajo reservations I lived in once said ~ "if you talk to the animals they will talk back to you and you will get to know each other, If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and what you don't know you will fear. what one fears one destroys."

[@jimnowak3960]

You ranchers need to get you some good guard dogs. They are worth it and they will keep these smalers wolves at bay.

[@swatoffrmb]

If they do that and a guard dog kills one the owner of the dogs will be arrested..

[@cacatr4495]

@@swatoffrmb If a livestock guardian dog is found by a Wolf to be intimidating, the guard dog would be a deterrent, and I doubt there would be a scuffle. They are smart enough to realize when the risk is too great.

[@swatoffrmb]

@@cacatr4495 So then what's the point of the guard dog?

[@cacatr4495]

@@swatoffrmb Again, the livestock guardian dog is a deterrent, motivating the wolf to go find an elk, deer or coyote to seek as a meal. For a livestock owner to use a guard dog, does not mean the guard dog and the wolf fight. Have you ever lived in rural areas where people have horses, sheep and dogs? where coyotes roam through and express an interest in the dogs or the foals or sheep? The dogs run them off, routinely. It's the same with the wolves. Wolves are smart enough to be invested in self-preservation; they don't want to fight a dog; they'll go elsewhere. It's easier for a wolf to chase down a young elk or deer fawn, than it is to fight a big dog. Again, wolves are smart enough to realize when the risk of injury is too great. If you understand the concept of deterrence, then you can understand how livestock guard dogs function. I've seen many livestock guardian dogs work, and being territorial, they won't allow unauthorized canines anywhere on their territory. The trespasser/s leave/s. (Your notion that a livestock guard dog owner would be arrested is also not true.) There are other non-lethal means of deterring wolves, some of which can be seen in the excellent documentary called Lords of Nature, which I recommend you see. (It's posted here on KZbin.) These ranchers need to utilize these known wisdom-practices, instead of longing for past times when unwise people corrupted the balance of nature, only to destroy entire ecosystems. It's been proven time and time again, that removing major predators from nature, completely throws off the balance of nature. ~ Do yourself a favor, watch Lords of Nature. There are insights there that most people have never realized.

[@Hugh-se7qn]

This species is misunderstood..nearly extinct at one time.

[@MbisonBalrog]

Will alarms scare wolves away ?

[@lucillenelson2411]

HHHHHOOOOOOOWWWWWLLLLLLL!! You better keep them safe and true to work plus you need to keep us up to date!

[@masokomalamu3277]

DO WE HAVE ANY WOLF IN ARIZONA STATE

[@MrStaybrown]

I've seen these between Jones Ranch and Lupton.

[@franciscoamaya5567]

Buenas noticias de estos preciosos animales 😂

[@robertswain4829]

You better pay the rancher ...for rereleasing the beast damn it

[@judasjunior6503]

Órale wolves!

[@elcompagenito3250]

Hey texas called, we want some wolves.

[@myfavoritemartian1]

All well and good, but did they also replace the natural food and predator animals to support the wolves eco system too? If not then the Wolves will adapt and seek other food and over populate without any natural competition. A train wreck waiting to happen. At this same time frame in Washington state and Idaho, there are wolf hunts going on because they repopulated wolves without competition.

[@MSRLR]

If we could bring wolves and jaguars back to texas Itd be a huge justice to the wrongs of the past

[@427SuperSnake1]

Why would you kill endangered species to protect something as common as cows or other ranch animals. And people wonder why you have to travel to places far and flung to see some real wildlife in America. Unless you live in or near national parks.

[@kyleklein8746]

427SuperSnake1 because the beef industry is too large in the United States. Ranchers will go to extreme measures to satisfy high demand.

[@stripes7153]

Cause people's well-being depends on it. You can't just take away all their well-being.

[@cacatr4495]

@@stripes7153 People's well-being does NOT depend on killing endangered species. Protecting livestock does NOT involve killing wild animals, much less endangered species. @427SuperSnake1 The problem is they are Not protecting their livestock with their presence, they are leaving it out there vulnerable, without livestock guardian dogs. They are not taking the responsibility to watch over their livestock. They want things to be easy, the way it was when there were no wolves, when that's not Nature. They want to not have to concern themselves with babysitting their livestock. That's not Life. For thousands of years, Man raised livestock without fences: they shepherded their animals 24/7 with their own presence, they hired shepherds, they also used the help of guardian dogs. Now, they want "great white father" to reimburse them for cattle they weren't watching over. Why weren't they watching over their own cattle? They have a very twisted view of Nature and ethics. Instead of doing their job to stay out there with their cattle, they moan and want the government to reimburse them. If they are unwilling to watch over their own cattle, they should not be ranchers.

[@DevotedDisciple-x]

I agree with the rancher.

[@erikm8372]

Maybe the ranchers should have better fences put up... they're completely open

[@randygonzalez1375]

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You've obviously never been out the don't know how shit works. They have cattle on national forest land not just there backyard

[@weirdgirlsam2108]

what do they work as +joan omelette BC I love wolves they r my fav animal ever

[@robthebank1987]

No shit u wiped them out almost to extinction go feed them granola bars through you're fence pilgram.

[@timoteoluna3789]

what's with these giant radio collars. that technology seems like it would be obsolete now. there must be something better out there by now to be able to keep track on wild animals. also when you have livestock you supposed to watch over them yourself with dogs .

[@alainbaatjies5943]

I'm all about people making a living but there are priorities we as the human race need to see to. Why are we protecting cattle when there are billions of cows in the world but we cant prioritze saving an endangered apex predator whose numbers are well below a thousand! In addition this very same animal is a keystone species and creates habitat for other species doesnt get the same protection or respect. In Africa we have farmers living side by side with lions, leopards,hyenas, cheetahs, wild dogs and jackals yet these 1st world countries cant live side by side with a wolf...im gobsmacked. Its time we as humans change our mindset. This farmer is more concerned about his profits than the world we live in. Here in lies the problem with a capitalist mindset...its all about greed. We are children of the earth and are therefore responsible for taking care of it. ALL OF IT.

[@thenaturalhistorian2953]

Or Panthera Atrox the North American Lion

[@MsBurnette]

Absolutely beautiful story.

[@nervouswreck13able]

They look like coyotes

[@cacatr4495]

No - Coyotes have thin, shorter legs, tiny feet, narrow rib cages, heads that are not as wide, hair that's not as long. Commit to memory the look of each and they won't look alike to you. Proportionally, the Mexican Gray Wolf is twice the size in feet and bone, rib cage, head and weight as the Coyote.

[@Mexicano1768]

Chicano Wolfs 💯

[@phxmissionphxmission8976]

My friend was muled bye one and killed it he got 14 years how the fuck does tht work why dont thay show tht

[@juanm7185]

No he didn't lol

[@cientificobronceqfbmg1230]

Los lobos mexicanos fueron cazados por T. Roy Macbride

[@brownaztec6473]

BROWN WOLF'S

[@coryolsen6658]

For the farmer I would recommend a 300 win mag

[@MbisonBalrog]

That overkill for canines

[@Chris-hm4sn]

Great choice

[@Reyes899]

Get 3 American bulldogs or presa canario dogs you will be ok, if you are getting your money back don’t kill the wolf

[@alberg8]

Why not just stop animal agriculture?

[@swatoffrmb]

Because, not everyone wants to run around being a soy boy. And humans need meat to actually get good muscles.

[@alberg8]

@@swatoffrmb what makes you think I eat soy? It's like saying "pig boy" to those who eat animals. And its false my muscles are just fine without the cholesterol of eating an animal.

[@alberg8]

@@swatoffrmb we do not need to consume animals in order to be strong and healthy. Thats fact

[@swatoffrmb]

Without meat we may have never made inventions. When us humans first discovered meat our gut shrank and which helped energy move to the brain faster. Which increased the human brains' size.

[@alberg8]

@@swatoffrmb lol no. We once hunted out of NECESSITY and we were literally part of the wild and the natural echo system. We are thousands of years removed from that now. Animal agriculture is not sustainable and is the leading cause for methane in our atmosphere.

[@robthebank1987]

Thank God it's not up to him same mind set.. that's Indian land...

[@jackuelinsolorio7035]

noooooooooo

[@deerhunter7482]

Smoke a pack a day

[@annasummers5348]

Please protect them.You can't tell the ranchers where the wolves are, because ranchers are murdering them. I no longer eat beef. I have learned just how brutal most ranchers are to wolves, wild horses, bison, coyotes, and other wildlife. I no longer eat beef, because I've learned first hand from dying children and seniors that I have cared for, that their beef is filth. Oprah tried to tell people, and instead of fixing the MRSA, C Diff, ESBL, Ecoli... that grocery store meat is saturated with, ranchers shut her up.

[@ryanhoward3383]

I eat NO animal products, and have been doing so for 10 years. Growing up in rural America, I have seen the effects on cattle on the landscape

[@stripes7153]

You both are crackpots. You know how many animals die because of farm fields too? Have you any idea how many birds, mice, rabbits and deer have their habitats destroyed by fields? You vegans have the blood of animals on your hands too. Animal death is essential for human survival. You cannot escape it. I think a person is worth more than an animal, and since we can't NOT kill animals anyway, I say shoot any wolf that messes with your land, and by all means eat animals.

[@cacatr4495]

@@stripes7153 You believe in Destruction. You have little understanding of Life. One can't have both. Animal death is NOT essential for human survival. Humans are NOT obligate-carnivores. You have a very twisted mind.

[@jackwalters5506]

@@cacatr4495 Humans actually do require meat. Our large brains require large amounts of energy to function properly, and the human digestive system is uniquely terrible among apes at digesting plant matter. The reason we are around now, and not denisovans or neaderthals is pricicely because we were better at obtaining and digesting meat then any other hominids.

[@h4hashir]

There must be a federal government program that works with these ranchers to compensate them and give them good monetary incentives for the protection of this and all endangered species.

[@MbisonBalrog]

Farmers ranchers get plenty subsidies already. Should more than enough

[@wrathofme03]

Why dont these farmers just breed some deer for the predators to eat?

[@cacatr4495]

Who would pay them to do that? For modern humankind, everything is about money.

[@stripes7153]

That would make them dependant, and not wild and self sustainable. It would be more like a zoo, defeating the purpose. And don't you know that these people freaking out defending the wolves would be even more angry with ranchers (not farmers) literally throwing deer to the wolves?

[@cacatr4495]

The landscape there is thick with Elk (the Wolves' preferred food) and Deer. They don't need more food. The ranchers need livestock guardian dogs, and to take responsibility to watch over their livestock, rather than killing Wolves, complaining about Wolves, or wanting the government to help them. This has always been the challenge of ranching, and in olden times, they protected their livestock with dogs and their own presence; they didn't leave them without protection and then cry about it. ~ The only reason that wolves take a farmed animal, is not due to lack, but because it's handy, unprotected, and always in a known location, unlike deer or elk that migrate. The wolves have to find the deer and elk, whereas they already know where the livestock are kept.

[@misstara9838]

Try a donkey

[@zonarosa7148]

I wanna buy one of those

[@autumnkitten2337]

dont

[@carlosvillegas6113]

Zona Rosa get a huskie instead.

[@swatoffrmb]

You can adopt one, but you cant take it. Go to the Sonora Desert Museum website.

[@dianawoods8779]

We can't let animals go extinct period! This country subsidizes for the most ridiculous reasons and the wolves are absolutely worth it! SAVE OUR NATIVE WOLVES!!! 🐾

[@danzbutrfly]

Save the wolves!!!!

[@natureisallpowerful]

Carey nobson Take you out instead..

[@billbreeding797]

Been seeing too many of these damn wolves since 1997. They are a scourge to ranchers....often eating calves before they are fully born. Need to open season on them.

[@MrGross-nm6dl]

Get dogs man

[@stripes7153]

I like wolves, and enjoy seeing them in the wild. But it's unreasonable to expect to get them up to their former numbers. True, ranchers have taken over their territory, but if you want wolves to come back, you can't do it without hurting ranchers. All you yayhoos saying "too bad, screw the ranchers" are demonstrating some very backwards ethics. You shouldn't care about the wolves more than the well-being of people; that's evil. It doesn't matter how endangered they are. One human being is worth more than all the other members of all the Earth's other species combined. Shoot a wolf and save a steak, because that steak means a man's well-being. Don't shoot them if they aren't bothering you, but should they try and mess with your stock, go to town on 'em. Either keep their numbers low or hurt the well-being of your fellow man. Should you choose the latter I think you have way more issues than the wolves themselves.

[@cacatr4495]

1. They are not expecting the Wolves to gain their former numbers, at all. Nowhere in the program did you hear that. 2. Ranchers have the responsibility to protect their own investment, without killing Wolves. It's not as though guardian dogs don't exist. 3. Meat is not required for the sustenance of human beings. Your entire comment is based on false premises.

[@MbisonBalrog]

Ranchers produce too much. Meat is wasted a lot. We don’t need that much production

[@Squintel7]

Ironically man killing off wolves comes back around to bite them in the ass because now wild herbivores are overgrazing and the genetic diversity of the fauna and animals are being glossed, disease starts spreading like wildfire and now look what you did, you killed the ecosystem for 1 damn steak. Wolves DESERVE to live here they ALWAYS have and removing them will only cause issues to arise with the wild herbivores. How about this-pick yourself up by your bootstraps, learn to protect your livestock and find ethical ways of deterring wolves if they are annoying you. If you care about your childrens childrens children you'd do so.

[@jackuelinsolorio7035]

noooooooooo