Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

Any wild predator learns hunting from their parents. Even for those properly raised by wild parents the mortality rate is very very high - but they at least have a chance to survive the perils of living wild because their parents provide backup. Wild animals suddenly dropped in the wild are disoriented and have not had time to learn what they need. Smaller animals with higher metabolisms have less time than larger animals - not weeks but days.

ALF can make the claims they make because they have never tracked their releases and collected real data. If they had they would have found a huge number of animals from starvation and predation.