[NatureNS] Wolf Reintroduction

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:15:59 -0500
From: Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca>
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Quoting Blake Maybank <bmaybank@gmail.com>:

> Time to consider reintroducing wolves to Nova Scotia.

* two questions: how hybridized with Coyotes do you suppose the  
descendents of a small introduced population would be after a few  
generations? ...and how ecologically different from Eastern Wolves are  
the current Coyote populations?

We know from the Russian domestication of Foxes that Canids are as  
quickly modified by selection as the breeding of Domestic Dogs  
suggests - so I'd wonder if Wolves can be introduced into eastern  
Canada, since the current Coyote populations, with their infusion of  
Eastern Wolf genes, are presumably in equilibrium with the available  
prey.

fred.
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