1.   Although sheep and cattle ranchers feared their herds would be decimated, the wolves have not killed any livestock.

2.   Crabtree predicts that wolves will kill two-thirds of the coyote population.

3.   Defenders of Wildlife has established a fund to compensate livestock owners whenever a wolf kills cattle or sheep.

4.   Environmentalists have promised to pay ranchers for their losses, if it can be shown that wolves killed livestock.

5.   Few moose from the ages of two to eight are killed by wolves, he noted.

6.   He listed statistics from the Tver region that showed hunters killed far more dogs than wolves had killed.

7.   In a hypothetical example given by Mech, a wolf kills a moose.

8.   In addition, the carcasses of animals killed by wolves provide food for scavengers that are essential elements of a complete ecosystem.

9.   In addition to the deer that the wolves killed, he said, their presence caused deer to leave their usual spots.

10.   The wolf kills the deer in order to have food, and the deer kills plants as it feeds on them.