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TIL that wolf packs might exist because ravens eat so much of their meat. When one wolf kills a moose, 47% is lost to the birds while a pack of six loses only 17%. “The team witnessed a single wolf killing a moose 11 times, which weakened the notion that wolves hunt in packs because of difficulty.”

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