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| Ham string shows wolf bite. Photos by John Andrews |
He had a couple of shots of moose along the Red Lake Road or Hwy 105. Upon enlarging one, I noticed the telltale wound of a wolf attack. Wolves grab onto the hindquarters of moose while they are trying to run away. Once the moose is slowed down, others may grab it by the nose or anywhere else. But sometimes the moose escapes, as happened in this case.
I've seen this exact wound before. One fall, back in the old days when we offered commercial moose hunts at Bow Narrows, our hunters got three sets of cows and calves. This was back in the days before the selective harvest and a hunter could shoot moose of any sex.
This exact wound was on the hind legs of both the cow and calf in all three instances.
At the same time our hunters could hear wolves howling right in the middle of the day, something quite unusual.
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| Another moose has ragged coat, probably result of moose ticks |
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| Water over road as a result of winter's deep snow melting |
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