If people go on adventure adventures in the wild, what sound are they most afraid of at night? I believe many people will think of wolves. Working together as a team, they can sometimes defeat animals much larger than themselves. So, does the vicious wolf have any natural enemies

If people go exploring and playing in the wild, what is the sound they are most afraid of at night? I believe many people will think of wolves. Working together as a team, they can sometimes defeat animals much larger than themselves. So, does the vicious wolf have any natural enemies?

Although wolves are powerful in combat, they also have their own natural enemies. This is also the principle of nature maintaining balance. It is said that in 1998, a group of golden eagles in Siberia, Russia, attacked a pack of wolves. In the end, seven wolves became their "meal" and countless others were injured. How do golden eagles join wolves? Is the natural enemy of wolves the golden eagle?

Strength comparison

1. Body shape

As a large raptor, the golden eagle looks very gorgeous and handsome, and its body shape is the best among birds. An adult golden eagle is between 70 and 100 centimeters long, with an average weight of about 4.5 kilograms and a wingspan of more than two meters. This makes them look unstoppable as they swoop down in the air.

In addition to its size, the golden eagle's claws are also very powerful weapons. It can directly tear the fur of wild wolves, but the teeth and claws of wild wolves are difficult to cause harm to golden eagles.

2. Flying advantage

Compared with wolves, the biggest advantage of golden eagles is that they can fly. Golden eagles can glide through the sky at an average speed of 200 kilometers per hour. In addition, they are best at swooping and gliding. If a lone prey is found during flight, the golden eagle can instantly increase its speed to quickly capture the prey.

It is generally difficult for wolves on the ground to react when faced with the rapid attack of golden eagles. Although the speed of wolves can reach 55 kilometers per hour, compared with the flight speed of golden eagles, this speed is completely insufficient for a lone wolf to escape from the claws of the golden eagle.

3. Lethality

For wolves, when attacking a target, they will first bite with their claws and teeth, which is also a characteristic of carnivores. Larger animals have greater strength and stronger attack power. At the same time, wolves have extremely sensitive senses of smell and hearing. There are more than 200 million olfactory cells distributed between the upper and lower jaws. Their brains are about 20% more developed than dogs, and they can respond quickly when hunting or attacking.

The lethality of the golden eagle comes entirely from the power brought by its sharp claws and high-speed dive. When they are about to reach the ground, they can instantly stop flapping their wings to form a buffering force and quickly capture prey.

Although the wolf's sense of smell and vision are sensitive, during the battle with the golden eagle, the golden eagle will grab the wolf's neck with one claw, blind the wolf's eyes directly, and then flap the wolf's head with its wings to make the wolf lose its sense of direction. , and then accurately grabbed the wolf's head with his sharp claws and stabbed into the wild wolf's skull, killing it instantly. The whole process was very fast, making it impossible for the wolf to use its advantage when facing the golden eagle, and it was unable to resist the golden eagle's sharp claws.

TacticsPK

In addition to the comparison of individual strength, tactics are also the key to determining the outcome of a battle. In the fight between the golden eagle and the wolf, it is incredible that the golden eagle can win in the end. According to wolf experts, this golden eagle attack on wolves is different from ordinary predation events and is very strange. Because golden eagles like to be solitary and rarely participate in group activities. Before this, there has never been a record of so many golden eagles hunting wolves at the same time. This is more like a victory after a "planned" golden eagle.

Why do solitary golden eagles hunt wolves together? Researchers found that the time when golden eagles attack wolves is the coldest winter in Siberia, and the prey of golden eagles will decrease sharply during this season. An adult wolf weighs more than 30 kilograms. For golden eagles, wolves are a good prey at this time.

Therefore, the golden eagles learned from the wolf pack's group fighting tactics and formed a group of 10-20 golden eagles to launch attacks together. Relying on their flying advantage, they broke up the wolf pack unscrupulously, making it impossible for the wolves to form a joint force and had to fight alone. In the end, they successfully captured seven wolves.Here, the golden eagle did not choose to attack the wolves rashly, but learned from the wolves' group fighting tactics to successfully capture the prey.

In addition to learning from the group fighting tactics of wolves, the Golden Eagle Regiment also cleverly chose a group of wolves that had just gone through a fierce battle as their capture targets. It is understood that the wolves attacked by the golden eagle had already gone through a desperate struggle before. Although they successfully repelled the intruders, they gave the golden eagle an opportunity.

They took advantage of the gap that the wolves had just finished fighting, and quickly formed a hunting team to launch a "sneak attack" on the exhausted wolves. The poor wolves were hunted by golden eagles before they could take a breath.

3. There are more young wolves in the wolf pack

It is understood that in this battle, a quarter of the wolves are young wolves. This is an extremely rare phenomenon. Too many young wolves is not a good thing for the entire wolf pack. Young wolves that lack fighting ability will greatly distract the attention of the adult wolf, and the mother wolf will focus more on protecting the cubs.

Therefore, when a wolf pack fights a golden eagle, the mother wolf's first choice is to protect her cubs instead of uniting to fight together, which greatly weakens the wolf pack's combat effectiveness.

The golden eagle's attack took advantage of this. It first carried out a feint attack on the young wolf, attracting the female wolf to distract the female wolf, and then launched a main attack on the male wolf, thus successfully hunting.

The natural enemy of wolves is "someone else"

The bigger reason why golden eagles can hunt wolves is that they rarely unite to hunt together, but they rarely do this in nature. Therefore, this incident can only be said to be a coincidence, not the normal state of nature, and golden eagles cannot be regarded as the natural enemies of wolves.

So, what are the natural enemies of wolves? Some people say it is lynx , while others say it is tigers and brown bears.

Let’s talk about the lynx first. It is a cat-like beast that can weigh more than 30 kilograms, which is about the same as an ordinary wild wolf. This also determines that the two have the same ability to fight alone. Therefore, if there is a head-on conflict between these two animals, they will inevitably fight to the death. This is the last thing wild animals want to do.

Therefore, we rarely see their fierce physical combat in nature. Being unwilling to confront one another does not mean that one is not a natural enemy. The lynx is very cunning and will stay away from ferocious wolves. If it encounters a pregnant wolf that is difficult to fight, or a mother wolf with wolf pups, it will wait for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack. It can be seen that lynx is completely the natural enemy of wolf cubs.

What about large wild animals such as brown bears and tigers? First of all, although brown bears and tigers have records of killing wolves, and even have the ability to kill the king of wolves in a pack, they do so not to eat wolf meat specifically, but to snatch prey from the mouths of the wolf pack. So from this aspect, there is no conclusion as to which one of the lynx or the bear and tiger is more like the natural enemy of the wolf. But I am more inclined to think that lynx is the natural enemy of wolves.

Here, the golden eagle did not choose to attack the wolves rashly, but learned from the wolves' group fighting tactics to successfully capture the prey.

In addition to learning from the group fighting tactics of wolves, the Golden Eagle Regiment also cleverly chose a group of wolves that had just gone through a fierce battle as their capture targets. It is understood that the wolves attacked by the golden eagle had already gone through a desperate struggle before. Although they successfully repelled the intruders, they gave the golden eagle an opportunity.

They took advantage of the gap that the wolves had just finished fighting, and quickly formed a hunting team to launch a "sneak attack" on the exhausted wolves. The poor wolves were hunted by golden eagles before they could take a breath.

3. There are more young wolves in the wolf pack

It is understood that in this battle, a quarter of the wolves are young wolves. This is an extremely rare phenomenon. Too many young wolves is not a good thing for the entire wolf pack. Young wolves that lack fighting ability will greatly distract the attention of the adult wolf, and the mother wolf will focus more on protecting the cubs.

Therefore, when a wolf pack fights a golden eagle, the mother wolf's first choice is to protect her cubs instead of uniting to fight together, which greatly weakens the wolf pack's combat effectiveness.

The golden eagle's attack took advantage of this. It first carried out a feint attack on the young wolf, attracting the female wolf to distract the female wolf, and then launched a main attack on the male wolf, thus successfully hunting.

The natural enemy of wolves is "someone else"

The bigger reason why golden eagles can hunt wolves is that they rarely unite to hunt together, but they rarely do this in nature. Therefore, this incident can only be said to be a coincidence, not the normal state of nature, and golden eagles cannot be regarded as the natural enemies of wolves.

So, what are the natural enemies of wolves? Some people say it is lynx , while others say it is tigers and brown bears.

Let’s talk about the lynx first. It is a cat-like beast that can weigh more than 30 kilograms, which is about the same as an ordinary wild wolf. This also determines that the two have the same ability to fight alone. Therefore, if there is a head-on conflict between these two animals, they will inevitably fight to the death. This is the last thing wild animals want to do.

Therefore, we rarely see their fierce physical combat in nature. Being unwilling to confront one another does not mean that one is not a natural enemy. The lynx is very cunning and will stay away from ferocious wolves. If it encounters a pregnant wolf that is difficult to fight, or a mother wolf with wolf pups, it will wait for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack. It can be seen that lynx is completely the natural enemy of wolf cubs.

What about large wild animals such as brown bears and tigers? First of all, although brown bears and tigers have records of killing wolves, and even have the ability to kill the king of wolves in a pack, they do so not to eat wolf meat specifically, but to snatch prey from the mouths of the wolf pack. So from this aspect, there is no conclusion as to which one of the lynx or the bear and tiger is more like the natural enemy of the wolf. But I am more inclined to think that lynx is the natural enemy of wolves.