Loading ...source: Nature.com, UK
While legal battles continued this week in America over whether the grey wolf is an endangered species, a parallel argument over Canis lupus is playing out on the pages of a high-profile biology journal. …
This illustrates one of the most contentious issues in conservation biology: what is a species, and what does it mean […]
source: Los Angeles Times, CA
… The decision transferred control over the animals to state game agencies in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. But after wolves were allowed to be shot on sight across most of Wyoming — and all three states began planning public hunts — U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in July issued an injunction […]
source: Economist, UK
DOMESTICATION is not normally reckoned good for a species’s intelligence. All that grey matter is expensive to grow, so if you have an owner to do your thinking for you, then you do not need so much of it. Natural selection (not to mention deliberate selection by people) might therefore be expected to […]
source: NewScientist.com news service
Dogs are no better than wolves at picking up on human cues. That’s the conclusion of animal psychologists who have compared the ability of the wolves and dogs to understand human hand signals. …
Wynne’s study is a rebuttal to a string of headline-grabbing papers that used similar approaches to demonstrate that dogs […]
source: By Jon Swaine, telegraph.co.uk
Following the successful reintroduction to the wild of birds such as red kites and white-tailed sea eagles, experts are meeting near Inverness to discuss whether wolves, boars and big cats should be next to be re-established.
source: By JASON KAUFFMAN, Express Staff Writer
For the first time since gray wolves were reintroduced into the Rocky Mountain areas of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming in 1995, population numbers for the wide-ranging predator appear to have leveled off or even begun to decline. . . .
Bangs said the changing wolf numbers is a significant turn […]
source: Margot Peter |Special to the sentinel
We saw elk, mountain goats, chipmunks, prairie dogs and a doe nursing her baby. The hands-down favorite stop, however, was Mission: Wolf, a remote sanctuary for wolves and wolf-dog crosses. The mission conducts a national education program to dispel fear of wolves.
About wolves
Dallas Morning News, TX
Only about 100 red wolves live in the wild today, according to National Geographic.
Texas sanctuary is a happy home for wolves
Dallas Morning News, TX - 1 hour ago
By PATTI PFEIFFER / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News MONTGOMERY, Texas – Wolves are extinct in Texas, but in one area of the Lone Star State, …
Located on 100 private, wooded acres northeast of Houston, the canine commune not only […]
Montana wolves eradicated because of livestock depredation
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier, IL
But last year, there were several reports of wolves in the area harassing livestock and one report of an injured calf. Then in April, wolves killed a calf ..
Federal trappers have killed the entire Willow Creek wolf pack near Hall because of chronic livestock […]