One wolf killing a moose is a very difficult feat. But when that wolf succeeds he gets more than half of the meat still.
Six wolves will have a much easier time killing a single moose. They will have almost all meat for themselves, but now have to divide it among them. If that would be done fairly every wolf would only get a third of what they would get if they killed a moose alone.
I don't think what's said in the screenshot is as straightforward as they think it is. I'd be more convinced hunting in packs has a lot more to do with being able to tackle stronger prey. A moose isn't defenseless.
If the bird fact is true then no, since a single wolf wouldn't be enough to scare away all the birds they would lose some more moose flesh from scavengers
Now I feel like the marketing department for the fashion industry back in the sixties missed an opportunity. It could've been a foxen coat or a foxen wrap.
Goose comes from Old English, where they pluralized [go:s] (think "goes" with a soft S) by adding [iz] (like "ease").
When saying [go:siz], it was kinda hard for the mouth to switch the vowels from the [o] to the [i] quickly, so to save themselves the trouble, they'd change the first vowel to make it a little more similar to the second, so [go:siz] became [ge:siz].
Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [z]. [ge:si] (think "guessy" but the "e" lasts a bit longer than usual).
Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [i]. [ge:s] ("guess" with that same drawn out "e").
📯It's the Great Vowel Shift!📯 Now, [go:s] and [ge:s] become [gu:s] and [gi:s]. Almost there!
The vowels become a tad short over time, and now, you have [gus] and [gis] which are written "goose" and "geese".
But "MOOSE"? That's Algonquin. It has nothing to do with all that noise. "But they sound the same and are written the same?!" So? Haven't you heard? English orthography is a dumpster fire. Nobody knows what they're doing. Not even the words.
Two words on completely different paths, probably headed in completely different directions, but then they smashed together and because they sound similar, one could end up inheriting the evolution of the other.
What's up with these percentages? How could these possibly be known? You would have to know how much the animal weighed before hand and have control over a lot of variables.
I am struggling to imagine a lone wolf killing an adult moose. A juvenile or elderly/sick one maybe. Unless it managed to hamstring it real early on it just seems implausible
Sure, but moosen are like 15 foot tall multi ton kaiju with bone spikes and an attitude problem. Ive been to wolf sanctuaries and I understand wolf size, but it's not in the same league