Gray wolves adapt their diets as a result of climate change, eating harder foods such as bones to extract nutrition during warmer climates, new research has found. The study, led by the University of ...
Wolves usually rely on cooperation to survive. Hunting large prey such as elk typically involves multiple pack members working together to isolate and exhaust an animal. That reality makes one ...
On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recently published a report summarizing its management and conservation activities for gray wolves (Canis lupus) over the past 10 years. “Ten ...
From packs of wolves to prides of lions, scientists are uncovering what really makes group hunting work — and where cooperation starts to break down.
In Yellowstone, cougars coexist with wolves by changing what they eat and where they hunt, minimizing conflict driven largely by prey theft.
Gray wolves are hunting sea otters. Scientists are studying how land predators adapt to ocean hunting and what this means for ecosystems.
A new scientific review challenges the headline-grabbing claim that Yellowstone’s returning wolves triggered one of the strongest trophic cascades on Earth. Researchers found that the reported 1,500% ...
In the summer of 2005, Austrian-born field biologist Gudrun Pflueger set out on a quest to find the elusive Canadian coast wolves. With only an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 wolves inhabiting the dense ...
An ad hoc expert committee will provide independent guidance about taxonomic research on the red wolf, Canis rufus. The committee will carryout its work as two distinct, but interrelated activities: ...