Monte Carlo simulation of Alaska wolf survival

Alaskan wolves live in a harsh climate and are hunted intensively. Pennaʹs biological aging code, using Monte Carlo methods, has been adapted to simulate wolf survival. It was run on the case in which hunting causes the disruption of wolvesʹ social structure. Social disruption was shown to increase the number of deaths occurring at a given level of hunting. For high levels of social disruption, the population did not survive.