Animals communicate with signals that range from simple visual cues to complex vocalizations and gestures. Intraspecies and interspecies communication has been studied extensively in birds, dolphins, dogs, primates, and other animal species.
The field is beleaguered with challenges. Data is hard to obtain, and animal communication signals are often difficult to interpret objectively. However, with advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, we can begin to make sense of the chirps, calls, whines, and other signals animals communicate.
Encore: Tracking Wolves in Italy
From NPR:
In this encore episode, we hear about the return of wolves to Europe. After being hunted to near extinction, they have made a population comeback in recent decades with the help of conservation efforts. Now, the country with the most wolves in Europe is Italy. Our correspondent in Rome sets out for the Italian forest with an organization that takes small groups to try to see wolves in the wild.
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‘The wolf is not the bad guy’: working with [Mexico] farmers to protect a reintroduced species
From Nature.com:
Carmen García-Chávez monitors the activities of wolves after their reintroduction to Chihuahua, northern Mexico.
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A Multispecies Data Logger for Wildlife Research and Conservation
From Hackster:
Animals communicate with signals that range from simple visual cues to complex vocalizations and gestures. Intraspecies and interspecies communication has been studied extensively in birds, dolphins, dogs, primates, and other animal species.
The field is beleaguered with challenges. Data is hard to obtain, and animal communication signals are often difficult to interpret objectively. However, with advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, we can begin to make sense of the chirps, calls, whines, and other signals animals communicate.
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Researchers with Minnesota’s Voyageurs Wolf Project capture and collar their first black wolf
From Outdoor News:
It’s not every day you see a black wolf roaming the wilds of northern Minnesota in and around Voyageurs National Park near the Canadian border. As wilderness happenings go, it’s a rare occurrence. That’s the word from the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which reported the black wolf Aug. 8 on its social media platforms after collaring the animal as part of its ongoing wolf research at the 218,000-acre Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem (which includes Voyageurs National Park).
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Wolf movement continues across Western Colorado and some Front Range watersheds in new map
From The Aspen Times:
Colorado’s collared gray wolves are primarily sticking to Western Slope watersheds, with some exploration toward the east.
In the latest map from Colorado Parks and Wildlife — which shows the watersheds where the state’s collared gray wolves were located between July 22 and Aug. 26 — wolves checked out northwest areas in Routt, Jackson, Rio Blanco, Grand, Summit, Eagle, Lake, and Pitkin counties.
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Group looking to end wolf reintroduction in Colorado fails to collect enough signatures for 2026 ballot measure
From Colorado Sun:
A group seeking to end wolf reintroduction in Colorado says it’s going back to the drawing board after failing to collect the voter signatures needed to get a measure on the November 2026 ballot.
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How to Count a Wolf
From Mountain Journal:
To understand how thorny a problem wolf management is in Montana, just look at the clock. The August 21 state Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting started at 8:30 a.m. and ticked a dozen items off its agenda before noon. The debate over 2025-26 wolf regulations took another seven hours.
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Foushee, Murphy introduce resolution to protect North Carolina’s endangered red wolves
From NC Newsline:
Two members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation introduced a bipartisan resolution on Monday to back red wolf repopulation and recovery efforts.
Filed by Democratic Rep. Valerie Foushee and Republican Rep. Greg Murphy, the resolution asks for continued support and approval of federal programs and initiatives, such as wildlife corridors, to aid in protecting North Carolina’s native red wolf population.
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[Colorado] Effort to kill livestock-attacking wolf ends with its fate unclear
From The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel:
Wildlife officials have ended their effort to kill a livestock-attacking gray wolf in Rio Blanco County, unsure about whether they succeeded in the effort.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in a news release Tuesday that it concluded an “active removal period” aimed at lethally removing an uncollared wolf determined to be responsible for attacks on livestock in the county in late July and August.
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Hope for red wolves New pups born in the wild signal a brighter future
From Southern Environmental Law Center:
Full tree canopies and blooming goldenrod. Shifting bird sightings with migrating flocks. The thrum of cicadas, late sunsets, and lightning bugs. The final remnants of summer are all around — and in Eastern North Carolina they include the welcome yips and yaps of growing red wolf pups.
On August 8, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) shared the good news that the world’s only wild population of red wolves has grown by as many as 16 pups. These births are a critical step forward for a population that numbered as few as 7 known wolves in the wild just five years ago.
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