From MoneyControl.com:
International Wolf Day is observed every year on 13 August. Know the story of the Indian wolf who has a remarkable evolutionary history, with its lineage dating back more than 100,000 years. Here’s why this ancient wolf matters to science.
From Forbes.com:
Adventure travelers are joining expert-led expeditions from Italy’s Apennines and Spain’s Riaño Mountains to the French Alps and Finland for the chance to see wolves in the wild.
From MontanaFreePress.org:
A bipartisan bill co-authored by Montana Senator Steve Daines could provide up to $20 million a year to fund nonlethal ways of stopping wild predators from killing domestic livestock nationwide.
From WXYZ:
(WXYZ) — For the first time ever, researchers from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Michigan State University has estimated Michigan’s wolf population in the Upper Peninsula using remote cameras.
From The Wildlife Society:
For a pack of wolves, fresh roadkill can be mouth-watering. Scientists are using this appetite for carrion to their advantage to keep the predators away from ranchers’ cattle—especially during the season when wolves are the hungriest.
From AspenTimes.com:
A licensed hunter reportedly killed one of Colorado’s female gray wolves in January.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in a Monday, Aug. 10, news release that the cause of death was confirmed by a joint investigation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service into the wolf’s death on Jan. 16.
From ScienceDaily:
Dogs have been shaping—and being shaped by—humans for about 15,000 years, evolving from early partners of hunter-gatherers into an astonishing range of specialized companions. Across the globe, they adapted alongside people to wildly different environments and needs, from powerful Arctic sled dogs and agile rainforest hunters to high-altitude dogs with genetic traits for surviving thin air.
Some were even bred for wool, while others played important spiritual or ceremonial roles.
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From NYKTribune.com:
Sitting in our research tent in the West Elk mountains of Colorado one late afternoon, I heard a faint howl, almost too faint to hear, coming from the wilderness to the northeast. I looked up, and could tell that one of my students had heard it too.
It was an odd howl for a coyote, but it was so faint that I was eager to hear it a second time. It never came. And that led to some interesting and uniquely happy uncertainty among my research crew.
From The Brussels Times:
The attack by a pair of wolves last July in a peaceful Walloon village resulted in the death of 20 sheep and raised anxiety in the rural community but ended happily amid improvement of Belgian wildlife management.
From Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute:
For decades, zoos and wildlife facilities have worked to bring the red wolf back from the brink of extinction. Today, nearly all remaining red wolves live in human care, making careful management of their genetic lineages critical to the species’ survival.
At the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), biologist Dr. Jennifer Nagashima is helping develop new tools to preserve the species’ gene diversity. One of those tools is cryopreservation, where living reproductive cells are frozen at ultra-low temperatures for future use.
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