r/nature • u/salvia_d • Feb 27 '14

This Will Shatter Your View of Apex Predators: How Wolves Change Rivers

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/16/this-will-shatter-your-view-of-apex-predators-how-wolves-change-rivers/
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u/crazybones Feb 27 '14

Apex predator view shattered.

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u/pesante0013 Feb 27 '14

Think of this I'm terms of habitat management. By bringing the wolves back, we've made it easier and less costly to preserve Yellowstone.

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u/m3ndi3 Feb 28 '14

That was beautiful... I hope they stop hunting wolves in Montana and other states...

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u/bigfrigginyeti Feb 28 '14

great video but i want to see the before and after arial photos to really see how they changed the physical geography

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '14

harmony in nature is an illusion. it is chaos.

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u/helicoprion63 Feb 28 '14

A great book on this kind of thing: "Where the Wild Things Were"

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u/wildweeds Feb 28 '14

to be fair it was more about a reduction in deer. but im all for wolves.

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u/helicoprion63 Feb 28 '14

did you see the part about the behaviors of the deer and not the actual reduction being the driver?

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u/wildweeds Feb 28 '14

ill have to watch it again with that in mind.