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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting. On another trip, this time to Slovakia, I heard wolves howling, a wonderfully spine-tingling sound. I’ve yet to see an English pine marten, but I once watched one hunting red squirrels in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland.

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Snow Leopard hunt by Adam Riley (INDRI Ultimate Wildlife Tours)

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Our Snow Leopard sat, quite Cheetah-like, before stalking off and once again rolling in the gravel, apparently an indication of the desire to mask its scent before a hunt. We could not believe our fortune, could we really be treated to a Snow Leopard hunt – this was beyond our wildest dreams?

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Swedish King Wants to Cull Country's Wolf Population

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Wolves kill elk - But King Gustaf wants to kill the elk so he wants to get rid of wolves And why does he want to do that? Because every year the good king runs an elk hunt in Sweden, along with his son Prince Carl Philip. Yet to hunt the elk, he himself uses hunting dogs. From Wildlife Extra.

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Leaping Foxes

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The Common Buzzards , for example, who usually hunt by circling high above the landscape, will hover in kestrel fashion much more frequently. The kestrels , on the other hand, will more frequently hunt from low perches. Sometimes, red foxes can even be observed hunting during the day when rodents and fox babies are plentiful.

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Falakhe’s Story

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And the morning before the Mkuze pack of Painted Wolves, or African Wild Dogs, had been very close to one of the park’s few Lions, as far as tracking collars had told. And the two species were not inclined to get on, by which I mean that Lions will kill other large predators including Painted Wolves.

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Falcon Wild by Terry Lynn Johnson

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When I was a kid I loved books like My Side of the Mountain , Island of the Blue Dolphins , and Julie of the Wolves. It’s all about finding the highway and getting out, even as Karma shows increasing survival skills and Stark masters the art of the hunt.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. Hare suspects that the evolutionary pressures that turned suspicious wolves into outgoing dogs were similar to the ones that turned combative apes into cooperative humans. Evolving Gifts.

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