Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "That's Why Everyone is Afraid of These Small Predators" video.

  1. I don't know about the lamb-killing. I think the weasel family has a high mortality rate, due to starvation, and they're just programmed to kill at every opportunity. In Nature, those opportunities are few and far between. On a ranch, where slow-moving critters are nicely contained by fences, or in a chicken coop, or what have you, that's just not something they're going to see out in the wild. Ranchers say the wolves being introduced from Canada into places in Idaho and Montana are wanton killers, too. Killing much more than they can actually eat, as though for the joy of it. I'm not sure that's what's happening. Maybe it's more about how easy the kills are, and they're just programmed to take advantage, and they're in an artificial situation.
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