400 Wolves ???

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Yeah, doesn't sound like any wolf behavior I've heard of...but animals and people adapt to deal with conditions. Or die.

Now, feral dogs....I can imagine a giant pack. Not 400 though. The big problem is that you can't share food with that many members. If you have a half dozen or dozen wolves and take out a deer, you have a good amount to share. With 400 members you could take out a moose and there wouldn't be anywhere near enough to go around.
 
Everything's bigger in Russia. Remember a few years ago the Kamchatka brown bears that effectively shut down a mine by making it too dangerous for anyone to go near it? They're basically much larger, meaner versions of the Grizzly, and many descriptions actually state their diet includes "homo sapiens". That's us, folks. We're considered prey for them, rather than top of the food chain like we usually are.
 
And this little town is in the middle of nowhere, even by Siberian standards.

"Verkhoyansk, with a population of just 1,300, is one of the coldest and remotest places in the northern hemisphere and lies within an area known as Stalin's Death Ring, after the former dictator sent political exiles there due to the extreme conditions."
 
It's not a band of 400 wolves. They don't run in such large numbers. With that many there would be no way to sustain a system of hierarchy. For one, there would be too many individual members that carry the "pack leader" gene, breaking away to create there own competing pack. Each pack would have an "alpha pair" and have defined territories. Which in terms of survival is a good thing. Among Grey or Timber wolves, the average pack consists of about a dozen.

My bet is that the story has most likely been sensationalized by over zealous journalists that know little or nothing about wolves and wildlife in general.

More than likely, it's a lot of wolves (many packs), that have proliforated due to some sort of change in the ecosystem causing an abundance of easily abtainable food. It's a wolf fest until nature (or man) kerplunks em.

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Either that, or it's the result of some left over Soviet experiment involving bio-engineering! :eek:
 
Either that, or it's the result of some left over Soviet experiment involving bio-engineering!

THIS^^^
 
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