Tag: elk

While wildlife bridges and tunnels are meant to protect animals from vehicle collisions and provide population connectivity, some deer and elk might actually be too scared to use them. Researchers...

Some people revere wolves. Some condemn them. Some credit them with restoring ecosystems in places like Yellowstone National Park. Others condemn them for causing conflict with livestock. But researchers recently...

Bears and wolves coexist in both Yellowstone National Park and 5,000 miles across the globe in parts of Scandinavia. But researchers recently found that in both places, bears are changing...

Predators could play in important role in limiting the spread of chronic wasting disease among ungulates, but under what circumstances? Chronic wasting disease was first detected in the Greater Yellowstone...

Hunters in the American West know they’re not the only ones paying attention to the start of hunting season. When hunters take to the forest, elk are known to seek...

Road strikes are a major cause of death for ungulates across the world—in Wyoming alone, an average of about 7,500 big game animals are killed every year. “Roads can be...

The wolf reintroduction success story in Yellowstone is a familiar one. After wolves were reintroduced to the national park in the 1990s, they began preying on elk, which had overbrowsed...

Around Jackson Hole, Wyoming, people are changing the ways wolves prey on elk, sometimes acting as a shield for the prey against their predators. Ungulates, like elk, in the area...

After carrying a tire around its neck for at least two years, an elk was finally freed of the burden after Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers tranquilized it and removed...

Conservationists and scientists around the world are partnering with the United Nations to create the first-ever global atlas of ungulate migrations. The initiative includes 92 partners working under the UN’s...