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Wolves prefer the night to avoid encountering this animal

From Earth.com:

A large field experiment across 425 square miles in northern Poland shows a simple truth. Wolves fear humans more than anything else they encounter during their lives. Researchers hid camera and speaker units in the forest and let wildlife trigger them. Calm human voices made wolves bolt more than any other sound.

Lead researcher Liana Zanette from Western University, along with other colleagues, designed the test to measure fear, not curiosity. The team compared reactions to humans, dogs, and harmless bird calls.

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Most Americans don’t believe in the big bad wolf, new survey shows

From HumaneWorld.org:

New survey results confirm just how deeply Americans care about wolves: 78% of those surveyed support continuing federal Endangered Species Act protections for wolves. Moreover, those in strong support of continued protection outnumber those who strongly oppose it by nine to one. This suggests that a better future for wolves is within our reach once we can set aside the political motivations of some of those determined to hunt and trap them—recklessly, dangerously and without regard for their significant status and role in healthy ecosystems.

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Colorado agency denies livestock associations’ claims that Canadian wolves released in mountains violated Endangered Species Act

From SummitDaily.com:

Livestock associations are questioning whether Colorado Parks and Wildlife violated the federal Endangered Species Act when it imported 15 gray wolves from Canada last year.

The livestock associations signed two letters on Monday, requesting records from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service related to whether Colorado Parks and Wildlife had the approvals it needed to import the wolves.

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Wolves at the coast: marine diets, ecosystem impacts

From URI.edu:

KINGSTON, R.I. – Oct. 23, 2025 – On Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, gray wolves are doing something unexpected: hunting sea otters. This surprising dietary shift appears to have notable implications for both ecosystems and wolf health, but little is known about how the predators are capturing marine prey. Patrick Bailey, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Rhode Island, is researching these understudied behaviors of gray wolves.

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Even with protections, wolves still fear humans

From ArsTechnica.com:

In May 2025, the European Parliament changed the status of wolves in the EU from “strictly protected” to “protected,” which opened the way for its member states to allow hunting under certain conditions, such as protecting livestock. One of the arguments behind this change was that the “tolerance of modern society towards wolves” led to the emergence of “fearless wolves” that are no longer afraid of people.

“Regulators made it clear, though, that there is no scientific evidence to back this up,” says Michael Clinchy, a zoologist at Western University in London, Canada. “So we did the first-of-its-kind study to find out if wolves have really lost their fear of humans. We proved there is no such thing as a fearless wolf.”

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Could Colorado see widespread ecosystem changes from wolf restoration?

From PostIndependent.com:

In Yellowstone National Park — where gray wolves were reintroduced starting in 1995 — researchers have gone back and forth on whether the restoration of wolves has impacted the ecosystem.

The idea is referred to as a “trophic cascade,” where a change in an ecosystem’s food chain — typically the removal or reintroduction of an apex predator like wolves — has a ripple effect on the other levels in the food chain and ecosystem. This can include changes to other species, plant life, the environment and more.

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Colorado county proposes wolf reintroduction ban with penalty of $1,000 per day

From DenverGazette.com:

A new ordinance has been formally introduced in western Colorado that’s designed to prohibit the introduction, transport, release, support facilities, or habitat establishment of non-native animal species within unincorporated Montrose County. As noted in a press release on the matter, among species that would be prohibited are Canadian gray wolves.

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Could these 180-pound dogs hold the key to protecting livestock from Colorado’s wolves?

From KUNC.org:

Since Colorado began its wolf reintroduction program two years ago, wildlife officials have worked to stop wolves from attacking livestock. Wherever possible, they’ve tried to use nonlethal methods, from hazing wolves with drones to having “range riders” patrol on horseback.

One promising strategy is the use of very large dogs as livestock guardians. Enter: the Turkish Boz Shepherd.

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New DNA Monitoring Tool Enables Scientists to Identify Specific Animals by Their Feces

From Smithsonian.org:

Scientists from the Smithsonian have successfully used swift fox droppings to identify individual animals and collect other data vital to monitoring a reintroduced population in Montana.

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Colorado agencies offer wolf conflict mitigation training in western Colorado

Fro KJCT8.com:

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) -Residents in western Colorado were given the opportunity to learn how to handle non-lethal wolf conflict mitigation.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), The Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) APHIS Wildlife Services and Colorado State University Extension announced two free training sessions on how to mitigate wolf conflicts with livestock.

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