#2213 - Diane K. Boyd

4165.194 - 4187.448 Diane K. Boyd

I think, well, three things happened. Three different females had pups. On average, they have six pups, seven pups. So there's recruiting right there, 18, 20 pups right there. In addition to the adults that were there, they had a good year. They had lots of prey. And so all those pups presumably made it to their first year. So for one winter... They were a huge pack, and then mortality happens.