From USAToday.com:
Trail-cam footage from Minnesota shows a wolf dropping two fish in the forest before rushing out of frame, presumably to continue fishing.
The footage, featured Monday by Voyageurs Wolf Project, was captured last spring near a creek that a wolf pack is known to utilize as a prey source.
From CowboyStateDaily.com:
Players of the online game WolfQuest virtually put themselves in the place of Yellowstone wolves, sometimes becoming so immersed in the experience that they cry when their wolf character dies.
WolfQuest isn’t just for entertainment, it’s meant to be educational and realistic, the game’s producer, Dave Schaller of St. Paul, Minnesota, told Cowboy State Daily.
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From SacramentoBee.com:
Looking for a mate in Los Angeles could easily put you in the path of a few wolves. Or so the 3-year-old female wolf dubbed BEY-03F may have felt as she made her way to LA County last weekend, part of a yearlong 500-mile journey that started in northern end the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Plumas County.
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From Earth.com:
Gray wolves don’t just change where they roam when the climate shifts. New research suggests they also change how they eat.
In warmer periods, wolves appear to consume harder parts of carcasses, including bones, as if they’re squeezing every last bit of nutrition out of a meal when conditions make hunting and feeding more difficult.
The study was led by the University of Bristol with the Natural History Museum.
From Yahoo.com:
The French government said Monday it would authorise the shooting of wolves that attack livestock even outside protected enclosures, a policy shift welcomed by farmers, a powerful and increasingly disgruntled constituency.
Once hunted to extinction in France, wolves began crossing over from Italy after gaining protected status under the 1979 Bern Convention.
From Appeal-Democrat.com:
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recently completed helicopter capture operations resulting in the satellite collaring of five gray wolves in northern California.
Operations occurred between Jan. 12 and 20 in Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, and Tehama counties. The wolves collared were associated with the Whaleback and Harvey packs.
From CowboyStateDaily.com:
A lawyer for Cody Roberts wants to bar testimony about him allegedly running a wolf down with a snowmobile or taping its mouth shut. Those are “prior acts” to taking the wolf to a local bar, according to a motion filed Monday in Roberts’ animal cruelty case.
From NewsWise.com:
Newswise — Grey wolves adapt their diets as a result of climate change, eating harder foods such as bones to extract nutrition during warmer climates, new research has found.
The study, led by the University of Bristol in collaboration with the Natural History Museum, and published in Ecology Letters has implications for wolf conservation across Europe and beyond.
From TimesColonist.com:
Parks Canada has issued a ban on dogs on Wickaninnish Beach, citing increasing wolf activity and the first litters of the wild canines in a decade.
Those young pups born in 2025 are learning from adult wolves, and Parks Canada said it’s important to reduce human and dog interaction during that impressionable period for the pups.
FromKTVZ.com:
THREE RIVERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A wolf from the Upper Deschutes Pack was recently filmed running along a biking path in the Caldera Springs community near Sunriver. The sighting was captured in a residential area as the animal traveled between local homes.
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