The moose are getting eaten by the high number of wolves. With moose numbers so low, we would have expected to see wolf numbers drop by now. But they haven't. That really surprised us.
One of the ways the wolves struggle through a food shortage is to try and usurp territory from their neighbors.
That's extremely unusual. It's something that, throughout the world, when you talk to moose biologists, you just don't see.
The others would disperse. Some would join other packs, some would starve. It's a live by the sword, die by the sword kind of thing.
Whether or not wolves had been introduced, you'd have seen fewer elk anyway.
