Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Death by Stick Impalement

Authors

Shannon M. Barber-Meyer, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, NDFollow
Lori J. Schmidt, International Wolf Center, Ely, MN
L. David Mech, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research CenterFollow

Date of this Version

2017

Citation

Northeastern Naturalist, Issue 24/2, 2017, pp. N11-N14

Comments

US govt work

Abstract

Although Canis lupus L. (Gray Wolf) individuals are sometimes impaled by sticks, we could find no documentation of natural impalement by sticks as a cause of death for wild Wolves. Here we report on a wild Gray Wolf from northeastern Minnesota that died due to stick puncture of its thorax and abdomen.