Along a remote stretch of the Alaskan coast, gray wolves have quietly rewritten the rules of what a top land predator eats. Packs that once relied on deer are now regularly killing sea otters in the ...
Wolves returned to Washington state in 2008. A new study shows that, despite their rising numbers, wolves are not having much of an impact on white-tailed deer, one of their primary prey. Scientists ...
Gray wolves from Oregon were reintroduced to Colorado in December 2023, the latest attempt in a decadeslong effort to build up wolf populations in the Rocky Mountain states. SciLine interviewed Joanna ...
Wolves are intelligent and resourceful terrestrial (land-living) predators. As is clear from this fascinating Instagram post, ...
BILLINGS – A lack of heavy snow has meant a lean winter for Yellowstone National Park’s wolves, according to the crews that annually monitor the park’s packs. Wolves rely on deep snow to tire out ...
For centuries, wolves have carried a reputation that wavers between admiration and fear. Often portrayed as ruthless predators, they’ve been misunderstood by many and even eradicated from entire ...
New research published in Nature Scientific Reports reveals how gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park seasonally alter their habitat preferences to align with beavers’ habitat preferences, a shift ...
As cougar and wolf populations recover, clashes between these top predators are inevitable with cougars finding ways to ...
Recently, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced it had made the difficult decision to kill four members of one of the state’s 10 known wolf packs in an area just north of Lake Tahoe ...
To many people, wolves may seem like little more than wild dogs that live in the wilderness, but they’re so much more than that. In fact, wolves are some of the most interesting animals on the planet, ...