Yellow Stone Wolves
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during years with normal amounts of rain and snow. Wolves primarily kill older cow elk, since they're the easiest to hunt butt warmers. Let a recent study that showed during particularly dry years, when grass, shrubs and wild flowers aren't a slush wolves switched a hunting bulls. These burly males already don't eat much in the fall, focusing instead on making deafening bugles and smashing into each other while fighting over cows. All that effort burns calories, weakening them heading into winter. In dry years, they're even more diminished as adaptable, intelligent predators. Wolves have learned to recognize these conditions, and they would rather kill an undernourished £750 bull versus a £450 cow. So by targeting bulls during years of scarce food, they give the cows a chance to reproduce, thus keeping the population afloat.