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Post by Speagles84 on Apr 22, 2021 7:34:34 GMT -5
Quite the contrary, on the Russian side there's a lot more bears and wolves.
So I'm reading the maps wrong? Red means higher density? I thought via the wolves and lynx maps show green in Lapland (assumed there would be lots of boreal wildlife there) |
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Post by Ariete on Apr 22, 2021 8:00:00 GMT -5
So I'm reading the maps wrong? Red means higher density? I thought via the wolves and lynx maps show green in Lapland (assumed there would be lots of boreal wildlife there)
Yes you are, red is high, green is low. The far north is a bit chilly and there's a bit too little to hunt for apex predators.
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Post by grega94 on May 15, 2021 20:47:43 GMT -5
In Washington State there were 178 wolves counted and 29 packs in 2020. Here is a map of the the territories the wolf packs control, it's a bit outdated as it's from 2019 but couldn't find a current map. They are slowely making their way across the cascades as northeastern WA is getting saturated and have even started hunting cattle. Keep in mind wolves in Washington were expatriated in the 1930s and didn't return back until 2008 when the first wolf pup was born in the state. they have been growing at an average rate of 28% every year. wdfw.wa.gov/news/annual-washington-wolf-population-report-shows-growth-12th-year Here is an interactive map |
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Post by nei on May 22, 2021 12:41:32 GMT -5
City cat is unhappy
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Post by Babu on May 26, 2021 4:19:02 GMT -5
Bear map. We sometimes get them inside Umeå city.  Wolves. Fun fact is there was a wolf couple spotted in Scania, the southernmost county, and it made big headlines all over Sweden. We're very keen to protect our wolves. We were down to a population of only like 50 in the beginning of the century, but now we're up at 370  Wolverine  Deer animals shot per hectar, from left to right: Moose, Roe deer, Red deer, Fallow deer  This is strange. I was sure roe deer (apart from moose and reindeer) was our only deer. I had no idea we had red deer here, but according to that map, we had among the highest density of red deer hunting in the country, at least 2015/16 Although, now that I think about it, I remember one time maybe 7 years ago, when I heard a sound coming from the inner yard of my apartment complex, so I went out on the balcony and looked and saw that a large deer with a huge set of antlers was standing in the middle of all the apartment buildings. That wasn't a normal roe deer, must've been a red deer. It's also possible that I've assumed red deer I've seen to be forest reindeer, since reindeer is very common just inland of Umeå. |
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Post by Babu on May 26, 2021 4:46:57 GMT -5
In April, a dead humpback whale was found beached outside öland island in SE Sweden. This was an unprecedented occurence and made national headlines for weeks on end.  People were told to not approach the whale because it could explode. Eventually they towed it onto land to dispose it in a burning facility.  |
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Post by Speagles84 on May 26, 2021 7:16:12 GMT -5
Bear map. We sometimes get them inside Umeå city. Wolves. Fun fact is there was a wolf couple spotted in Scania, the southernmost county, and it made big headlines all over Sweden. We're very keen to protect our wolves. We were down to a population of only like 50 in the beginning of the century, but now we're up at 370 Wolverine Deer animals shot per hectar, from left to right: Moose, Roe deer, Red deer, Fallow deer This is strange. I was sure roe deer (apart from moose and reindeer) was our only deer. I had no idea we had red deer here, but according to that map, we had among the highest density of red deer hunting in the country, at least 2015/16 Although, now that I think about it, I remember one time maybe 7 years ago, when I heard a sound coming from the inner yard of my apartment complex, so I went out on the balcony and looked and saw that a large deer with a huge set of antlers was standing in the middle of all the apartment buildings. That wasn't a normal roe deer, must've been a red deer. It's also possible that I've assumed red deer I've seen to be forest reindeer, since reindeer is very common just inland of Umeå. Bears I'm assuming are brown/grizzly in Sweden, not black bears?
Also interesting note I found from your and Ariete's wolves maps that they are more common in middle/southern Sweden and Finland - whereas I would have assumed they would be in the north. Most common places for wolves in North America are in the far north - at least in Alaska.
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Post by Babu on May 26, 2021 7:19:25 GMT -5
Bear map. We sometimes get them inside Umeå city. Wolves. Fun fact is there was a wolf couple spotted in Scania, the southernmost county, and it made big headlines all over Sweden. We're very keen to protect our wolves. We were down to a population of only like 50 in the beginning of the century, but now we're up at 370 Wolverine Deer animals shot per hectar, from left to right: Moose, Roe deer, Red deer, Fallow deer This is strange. I was sure roe deer (apart from moose and reindeer) was our only deer. I had no idea we had red deer here, but according to that map, we had among the highest density of red deer hunting in the country, at least 2015/16 Although, now that I think about it, I remember one time maybe 7 years ago, when I heard a sound coming from the inner yard of my apartment complex, so I went out on the balcony and looked and saw that a large deer with a huge set of antlers was standing in the middle of all the apartment buildings. That wasn't a normal roe deer, must've been a red deer. It's also possible that I've assumed red deer I've seen to be forest reindeer, since reindeer is very common just inland of Umeå. Bears I'm assuming are brown/grizzly in Sweden, not black bears?
Also interesting note I found from your and Ariete's wolves maps that they are more common in middle/southern Sweden and Finland - whereas I would have assumed they would be in the north. Most common places for wolves in North America are in the far north - at least in Alaska.
Yeah idk why that is exactly. Probably related to density of outdoor farms of medium to small animals, like sheep and chicken. The central region is also there's the most amount of deer I guess. |
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Post by nei on Jun 1, 2021 20:36:16 GMT -5
stupid dogs approaching the bear
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Post by Mörön on Jun 12, 2021 15:34:26 GMT -5
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Post by nei on Jun 15, 2021 9:19:47 GMT -5
Bears I'm assuming are brown/grizzly in Sweden, not black bears? bears in Europe are brown bears, same species as grizzly bears. Think they're less aggressive than grizzly bears (and the most aggressive bears have been eliminated out of the gene pool from living with high densities of humans for millennia) but more so than US black bears. Sweden claims to have the least aggressive brown bears in the world bearproject.info/research-and-methodology/is-the-brown-bear-dangerous/Scandinivia has about 5000 brown bears compared to about 1500 for the western US (not including Alaska); but the US has many more black bears. maybe there's more deer in central Sweden than northern Sweden from denser vegetation? |
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Post by Strewthless on Jun 20, 2021 7:10:50 GMT -5
Sea eagles were reintroduced to the western Scottish islands about 50 years ago, now they're expanding across the mainland for the first time in over a century.   www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57428986 |
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Post by Mörön on Jul 14, 2021 15:32:53 GMT -5
I guess this counts as wildlife. I didn't know ticks were so fucked up.
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Post by Strewthless on Jul 19, 2021 15:06:22 GMT -5
I guess this counts as wildlife. I didn't know ticks were so fucked up. Had one of those on my dog's head once, swollen up to the size of a grape, horrible bastard. |
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Post by Yahya Sinwar on Jul 19, 2021 15:08:51 GMT -5
I guess this counts as wildlife. I didn't know ticks were so fucked up. There’s a tick in the south that if you get bitten by it you will develop a deadly allergy to protein! Meat ! Man that’s evil. |
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Post by Mörön on Jul 19, 2021 15:10:46 GMT -5
I guess this counts as wildlife. I didn't know ticks were so fucked up. There’s a tick in the south that if you get bitten by it you will develop a deadly allergy to protein! Meat ! Man that’s evil. You serious? |
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Post by Yahya Sinwar on Jul 19, 2021 15:11:58 GMT -5
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Post by Mörön on Jul 19, 2021 15:16:45 GMT -5
Interesting. I wonder if this will somehow be used to decrease meat consumption in the future. Since it is a big contributor of climate change.  |
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Post by Yahya Sinwar on Jul 19, 2021 15:26:05 GMT -5
Interesting. I wonder if this will somehow be used to decrease meat consumption in the future. Since it is a big contributor of climate change. Interesting how the first sentence mentions it as “ recently identified “. |
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Post by FrozenI69 on Jul 21, 2021 8:38:54 GMT -5
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