Floyd L. Davidson wrote:

It should be really easy to distinguish between a bear kill and
a wolf kill, don't you think?

It might be under certain cirucmstances (like, for instance, if wolves
killed people, that would be a good start) but, no, generally speaking,
I can't see any reason to think so.

There would be bear scat all over the place, and it is either
berries, salmon, or human remains.

Or there would be wolf scat all over the place, and that of
course would be filled with hairs and bones from mice. (See
Mowhat, in the fiction section of your local library.)

I'm going to guess that there is enough overlap in the diets of bears
and wolves that there is a great deal of room for error. Besides, is
there any good reason to suppose that either would necessarily shy from
partaking og the other's leftovers?

It's been a long time now, but up until the eraly 90s or so, I'd read
pretty much evereything that Mowat had published for the the general
reader. I'm afraid that's just not good enough for a definitive answer
to this conundrum.

[Sarcasm?]

Well, it DOES happen here from time to time.

Wolfgang

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Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)