Re:A lone wolf's miles traveled in northern Minnesota
by smabie on Saturday November 16, 2019 @06:28PM
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It's interesting that the movements sometimes look like a random walk, but also there's definitely movements that look purposeful. I wonder what's the underlying reason for the change in the two apparent movement states (mostly random, purposeful). Of course it could always just be a random walk, but it doesn't look very likely.
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Re:A lone wolf's miles traveled in northern Minnesota
by FartyMcFarter on Saturday November 16, 2019 @06:29PM
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This one was interesting:
Q (thechrizzo): Close to the end there is this straight line from bottom to top… What was that? The wolf walking a straight line for miles? Kinda strange
A: The wolf was running down a power line that is a compacted snowmobiled trail during the winter. This trail allowed the wolf to travel in a straight line for a a good distance!
Re:A lone wolf's miles traveled in northern Minnesota
by fit2rule on Sunday November 17, 2019 @05:33AM
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If you compare the Lone Wolf trail with the trails of the Wolf Packs (linked in the answers to the Redditors), it sort of looks like the Lone Wolf was doing everything he could to avoid the packs...
Re:A lone wolf's miles traveled in northern Minnesota
by raverbashing on Sunday November 17, 2019 @01:03AM
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It's funny how the laws of Brownian motion seem to apply here (molecular collisions vs trees) and to have the same effect (minus the straight road, of course), but in a much larger scale.