[Wildlife] I'm generally vehemently opposed to hazing. Unless it's of wild animals, and meant only to teach them nonlethal lessons about how terrifying us weirdly proportioned primates are. Then fire those paintballs, fire away!
Dutch to shoot paintball pellets at wolf to scare it...
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There are a lot of hard lessons a wolf has to learn when it leaves its natal family.
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This one will involve some stinging and some really gross grooming sessions. Could be a lot worse.
Wolves: what is with you people
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Humans: EXACTLY what we want you to ask! Every time you see this unmistakeable, bizarre silhouette!
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Humans: "Oh, no, it's one of those things" you should think! That's the safest way for everyone!
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...which would make a good premise for an eldritch horror story actually. Humans as the equiv of wolves, your average Mothman type thing just trying to haze us off.
huh I wonder if paintballs have been tried out here...
Having looked it up, I think using paintballs got a lot of evidence from work on the Yellowstone packs
Yellowstone is Shooting Paintballs at Wolves and Say...
Yellowstone is Shooting Paintballs at Wolves and Say...
The wolf program really stepped up their hazing program around 2018, when they had new evidence they could make it work and new incentives to do so.
Habituated wolf’s death may leave lasting legacy
Habituated wolf’s death may leave lasting legacy
Banff National Park in Canada does it too. Combined with radio collars!
Banff's wolf strategy changing gears in national par...
Banff's wolf strategy changing gears in national par...
I found out while looking this up that one paintball gun manufacturer has a listing where they proudly boast abt their products being used heavily by US national parks staff to haze big predators