From Mirror UK: Terrifying robot wolves with gleaming red eyes and bared fangs are being unleashed in Japan after a spate of bear attacks against elderly residents. The mechanical contraptions were originally designed to act like robotic scarecrows and keep wild animals away from farms. But due to a rise in the number of bears attacking people, […]
From The Statesman: The West Bengal forest department has spotted the highly endangered Indian Grey Wolves in the forests of Burdwan West district, said IFS officer Kalyan Das. This is the first time Indian Grey Wolves have been sighted in the forest cover of Tilabeni and Kantaberia forests, about 25 kilometers away from Durgapur. […]
From Bring Me the News: A grad student has made a rare achievement: capturing video of a wolf attacking (and killing) a beaver. The footage, recorded Sept 17, was shared on social media by the Voyageurs Wolf Project, a University of Minnesota research group studying wolf behavior in northern Minnesota’s forests. You can watch it […]
From The Irish News: Dogs and wolves appear to remember where people hide food, suggesting they are capable of a form of social learning known as observational spatial memory, according to scientists. Observational spatial memory is a skill that involves the ability to remember and mentally map the layout of an environment or scene by […]
From Mongabay: KATHMANDU — On the slopes of the Himalayas in Nepal, a primeval scene plays out routinely, far from human eyes: a snow leopard lies in wait for its prey, its thick white-gray coat with large black rosettes serving as the perfect camouflage in this craggy terrain. When it senses the opportune moment, it […]
From AP: WAKE FOREST, N.C. (AP) — The endangered red wolf can survive in the wild, but only with “significant additional management intervention,” according to a long-awaited population viability analysis released Friday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also released an updated recovery plan Friday for “Canis rufus” — the only wolf species unique to the United […]
From The Wildlife Society: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized plans to designate Colorado’s gray wolf population as a “nonessential experimental population,” loosening restrictions on take traditionally granted to federally listed species. Click here for the full story.
From 27WKOW: MANITOWISH WATERS, Wis. (WKOW) — The wolf management plan advanced by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources gained key support, inching the initiative closer to approval. At a meeting Wednesday of the Natural Resources Board, the body tasked with overseeing various aspects of the DNR’s operations, Chair Bill Smith signaled that he supported […]
From Eurasia Review: Protecting large areas of land from human activity can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss, especially for vertebrates like amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, according to a new study in Nature. In particular, vertebrate population declines were five times slower in conservation areas compared to animals living in areas not protected from […]
From Eagle Herald MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources policy board signaled support Wednesday for the department’s contentious new wolf management plan even though the document lacks a hard population cap that hunters and farmers have demanded. Click here for the full story.
