Tag: Wolves

An active minority of poachers could be driving red wolves back toward extirpation even though most North Carolinians support the conservation and reintroduction efforts of the experimental population. Surveys reveal...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be completing a comprehensive status review of the gray wolf in the western U.S. after its delisting from the federal Endangered Species Act...

Indian wolves are genetically distinct from gray wolves and may be extremely endangered, according to new genetic research. Indian wolves live in lowland regions of India and Pakistan—grassland habitats that...

Why do voters in Colorado back reintroducing the gray wolf while Montana and Idaho legislators are seeking to reduce wolf populations? It’s not a surprise to researchers at Colorado State...

Three American red wolves at the North Carolina Zoo have given birth to a total of 12 pups. The additional pups bring the total number of red wolves (Canis rufus)...

In 2010, after a schoolteacher went jogging near Chignik Lake in southwestern Alaska, locals found her body surrounded by bloodstains and wolf tracks. After eight wolves were killed in the...

When Joshua Brian was studying parasites in freshwater mussels for his PhD, he realized that even at sites right next to one another, mussels had different parasite communities. He and...

The climate began to change drastically in Yukon at the same time that a new invasive species was spreading across the continent, outcompeting large mammals that lived there and driving...

Large tracts of high-quality habitat for Mexican wolves can be found across northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S., according to cross-border distribution modeling revealing suitable areas for the animals. Mexican...

More diverse communities of bees in Michigan, including both native and nonnative pollinators, result in less virus spread. Researchers had already known about a previous hypothesis called the Dilution Effect,...