Thanks for the dose of reality--especially the claim that the transplanted wolves are a different "subspecies" that is somehow more predatory.
As you no doubt know, the various "subspecies" of gray/timber/etc. wolves so often quoted were developed back when subspecies were declared due to minor differences in a few individual specimens. There is NO difference in the DNA of any of the gray/timber/etc. wolves in North America, or their way of making a living. All of them primarily live by killing big game (contrary to the myth promoted by Farley Mowat). None are more "bloodthirsty" than other so-called subspecies.
I have looked at a couple of old books from the early 1900s showing wolf weights, measurements and pictures taken from the last of the livestock killing wolves of the era. The size and weight listed are very similar to the wolves here now.
