{"id":225374,"date":"2025-10-25T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225374\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:45:08","slug":"yellowstone-wolves-gang-up-on-grizzly-bear-in-battle-over-carcass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225374\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone wolves gang up on grizzly bear in battle over carcass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Yellowstone National Park, when a bison dies it\u2019s not long before wolves or grizzly bears move in on the carcass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If one or two wolves are on the carcass, a lone grizzly bear can usually clear them out for dibs on the quality flesh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But if the competition involves an entire wolf pack, it\u2019s a different story.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Wolves harass Yellowstone grizzly bear.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"938\" height=\"563\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4f07f6a6e181cbb22d05408c8e886961.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wolves harass Yellowstone grizzly bear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The accompanying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQNCWOpAmP9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:footage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">footage<\/a>, captured by Scott Brovsky and shared this week via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQNCWOpAmP9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>, illustrates how persistent wolves can be while trying to run off a grizzly bear. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQNCWOpAmP9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> if video player does not appear below.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/foolish-tourists-approach-elk-photographer-165353602.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:ALSO: As tourists foolishly approach elk, photographer has the perfect response;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALSO: As tourists foolishly approach elk, photographer has the perfect response<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The wolves work as a team and are shown alternately nipping at the male grizzly bear\u2019s hide to keep him confused and unable to take the offensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At one point the bear stops and sits upright, defensively with paws outstretched, while circled by wolves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brovsky explained that the wolves, some wearing research collars, are from the 8 Mile Pack in the park\u2019s northern range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With the camera back on the carcass, the footage ends with a dark-colored wolf feasting on bison meat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brovsky told FTW Outdoors that he captured his footage with Sony equipment from between 325 and 500-plus yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/10\/25\/yellowstone-wolves-gang-up-grizzly-bear-fight-over-bison-carcass\/86889718007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Yellowstone wolves gang up on grizzly bear in fight over bison carcass;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Yellowstone wolves gang up on grizzly bear in fight over bison carcass<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Yellowstone National Park, when a bison dies it\u2019s not long before wolves or grizzly bears move in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[40348,90,96049,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-225374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-grizzly-bears","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-scott-brovsky","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}