A new way to help save Yellowstone’s wolves
From The Washington Post:
MAMMOTH, Wyo. — At 1:23 a.m. on a recent summer night, the matriarch of the Rescue Creek wolf pack, known to scientists as 1490F, bellowed out two long, melodic howls that reverberated across the landscape.
Soon, her seven pups joined in, creating a cacophony that enveloped their mother’s baseline howl. With this performance taking place in the middle of the night, near the wolves’ den, researchers would usually have missed it. But the scientists of the National Park Service’s Yellowstone Wolf Project, which has been monitoring wolves across the Yellowstone landscape since they were reintroduced in 1995, have a new tool in their arsenal: Drilled to a tree near the wolf den, a recording unit runs 24/7, eavesdropping on the wolves’ conversations.
