The Himalayan wolf is considered an ancient wolf as it evolved prior to the contemporary grey wolf which is found in large parts of North America and Eurasia. Very little is known about the Himalayan wolf, because science ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2020
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An endangered female gray wolf known as OR-54 didn't live long enough to find a mate, despite making an 8,700-mile meandering journey through three states looking for one.
Plants & Animals
Feb 10, 2020
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40
When it comes to playing a game of fetch, many dogs are naturals. But now, researchers report that the remarkable ability to interpret human social communicative cues that enables a dog to go for a ball and then bring it ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2020
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A pack of gray wolves may have been spotted in northwest Colorado just one day after a measure to reintroduce the species throughout the state won approval to appear on the 2020 ballot.
Ecology
Jan 10, 2020
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A team of researchers have found that dogs and wolves are equally good at cooperating with partners to obtain a reward. When tested in same-species pairs, dogs and wolves proved equally successful and efficient at solving ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2020
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When Washington ranchers find that gray wolves have attacked their cattle, they can call the state wildlife agency, which has killed 31 of the protected predators since 2012 under a program intended to save vulnerable livestock.
Ecology
Dec 19, 2019
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When Naya arrived in Belgium in January 2018, she was the first wolf to be tracked in the country for at least 100 years. She'd been followed with a radio collar since she was a cub, so scientists knew when she left her family ...
Ecology
Nov 8, 2019
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6
Somewhere near this tiny farming town last month, a Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife hunter conducted what officials call a lethal removal, killing a gray wolf, a member of a species that the state considers endangered.
Plants & Animals
Oct 24, 2019
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One year into its effort to reestablish the wolf population on Isle Royale, the National Park Service and its partners have a problem: The new wolves keep dying and nobody knows why.
Ecology
Oct 7, 2019
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13
UCLA evolutionary biologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh has spent more than three decades studying the skulls of many species of large carnivores—including wolves, lions and tigers— that lived from 50,000 years ago to the ...
Evolution
Sep 24, 2019
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