B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for October 12, 2010

This was a BIG ………… LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, he tried!

(Good Morning to all you BCers!)

Good morning, all you Cave Dwellers……(thanks for the term, Grog)

Speaking of eating hearts out, you don’t want to still be there when Wolfie gets hungry.

Must be a dire wolf… not too bright, compared to modern wolves, or so I have heard.

Which canine is more daft; Wolfie or Odie?

spammers?

A one-trick dog.

This is no time to be playing with droobs, Wolfie.

Good Morning, Fellow Cave Dwellers.

Yes, but concealed in the stick is a saw. Good wolf!

Next he’ll lick his face until he pees himself.

Good morning, fellow cave dwellers!

Brilliant, now get me a match

^Ladyfinger I don’t get regular pop up ads on this site but I get a box asking something like Your trusted site wants to open dll.frame and I have to click NO one to three times to proceed.

Cartoon is funny today.

Nabuquduriuzhur, I think the difference is largely one of terrain. Eastern Europe still has a LOT more dense forest than North America (the Canadian interior is different that the U.S. mountains and plains, and wolves still thrive reasonably well there). Even if you lose 1/4 of a population on a yearly basis, the natural forces will allow relatively quick replenishment. The North American wolf-eradication movement was just that; a concerted effort to ERADICATE wolves; it was aggressive and systematic, it coincided with loss of habitat, and it’s not surprising that it worked. There’s also a “threshhold” issue involved; if the population density drops below a certain level, its bounceback capabilities are severly impaired. And since a wolf pack needs a much larger territory to support a smaller population than coyotes do, it’s difficult for limited, controlled reintroduction to be effective (12 breeding pairs released into Yellowstone doesn’t do much good if, as soon as one wolf sets a paw outside its “allowed” range, it gets blasted).

Coyotes are remarkably adaptable in ways that wolves (New World and Old World) are not. I’ve read that 150 years ago, coyotes had large packs, similar to wolves. But with change in habitat, they now THRIVE as more or less solitary (or paired) hunters. Also, much to the ranchers’ displeasure, it turns out that just about the only effective curb on coyote numbers is to have a healthy wolf population (they don’t like to share territory, and like I said a small number of wolves can displace a large number of coyotes).

I nearly commented yesterday that Wolfie should show up to help. Could be complicated–LOL!

Wolfie is simply going through his ‘checklist’ of learned behaviors!! Hopefully, he gets to ‘rescue’ soon!!

@ladyfinger: If you subscribe for genius, the pop-ups will stop. At least that’s my experience.

Wile E. Coyote… SOOOOOPper GENIUS! … or so I’ve heard.