If wolves and humans were equally good hunters, one could ensure the balance in nature just as well as the other. But unfortunately that's not the case. When the wolf was wiped out in our country in the last few centuries, there was hardly any game in our forests. And because the wolf found no more prey, it wasn't difficult either, to defeat the wolf. When in winter all the pets were locked in the barn and there was nothing else to eat, the wolves had to starve. Some also emigrated there, where there was still something to hunt, such as southern Europe.
After that, bears and lynxes were also exterminated as hunting competitors, the human remembered
and started gradually, to tend the game again. The population of deer and deer recovered very slowly. The human hunters could go stalking again. They even wanted to keep the game healthy and strong and only kill the weak and sick animals – so hunt like the wolf. The focus should be on the balance between game and forest: Over, Wild boar and deer should be able to find enough food and the forest should still grow.
But this goal has never been achieved. Today we have more deer and deer than ever before. They devour the forest and destroy their own food base in the process. The only way to keep the far too numerous wild animals alive is to feed them in winter – to the detriment of the forest. Many tree species, especially the, who loves to eat wild animals, hardly stand a chance, to grow big. The result is pure beech forests or barren spruces- or pine forests, in which hardly any other plant species has room.
The wolf's food requirements
An adult wolf in the wild takes about 4 kg of food per day. Corresponding 10 percent of his body weight. That is a lot compared to the nutritional needs of humans. Just imagine, we would have to eat a giant steak of 6 eat kg or more!
However, the wolf does not get such quantities together with mice, but only with a larger prey animal. In addition, wolves do not hunt alone, but have to take care of many in the herd. That's the only way to explain it, that a pack of ten animals over a whole moose 600 can devour kg. Every animal eats 30 kg and more, including skin and bones.
No wonder then, that wolves hardly move on days when they are so lucky to hunt. But they can also survive for a long time without food. Scientists are once in a pack 14 followed for days. During this time, none of the wolves have eaten anything. Nevertheless, they kept walking, until they finally made prey again. A single wolf even went hungry for a month, but then he made prey and ate 20 kg at once!