From West News Magazine:
A constant stream of howling emanated from the second row as soon as Regina Mossotti’s name was announced at the TEDxStLouis presentation on May 13. It was fitting, given that her talk was titled “Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
“Raise your hand if you’ve ever seen a movie or read a story with a big, bad wolf in it?” Mossotti, former Director of Animal Care and Conservation at the Endangered Wolf Center (EWC), asked the audience. She then shared how movies perpetuate a negative image of wolves, showing them as scary animals, snarling and often covered with blood. She said those images portray the wolf as something to be feared, and if we fear something, we don’t want to save it.
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Wandering Mexican gray wolf released back into Arizona wilderness ‘where she belongs’
From the Sacramento Bee:
Wildlife officials released an endangered Mexican gray wolf back into the Arizona wilderness after holding her in captivity for five months. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service captured female wolf 2754 — nicknamed Asha by conservationists — in northern New Mexico in January, and held her at the agency’s Sevilleta Mexican Wolf Management Facility outside Socorro, officials said in a June 14 news release.
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Michigan’s Isle Royale wolves: 4 new litters of pups, odd wolf pack dynamics
From MLive.com:
ISLE ROYALE, MI – The effort to rebuild wolf packs on Michigan’s remote Isle Royale National Park continues to gain momentum, with researchers’ annual study showing an increase in the number of wolves and new pups born, along with a sharp decline in the number of moose.
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Isle Royale Winter Study: Wolf Count Rises Slightly, Moose Population Drops
From Michigan Tech:
Wolves, their count up by three, stabilize and organize. Moose, down by 379, starve and decline. Michigan Technological University researchers discuss the latest populations in the 64th Isle Royale Winter Study.
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Watch endangered red wolf pups and their parents roam new home in the wild in NC
From The News & Observer:
A family of red wolves was released into the wild in North Carolina, giving new hope to an endangered species. Video captured the moments when two parents and a couple of their cute babies roamed onto a refuge for the first time as a family, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Red Wolf Recovery Program.
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Chicago Zoological Society Helps to Increase Genetic Diversity of Wild Mexican Wolves
From Association of Zoos and Aquariums:
On 27 April, seven Mexican wolf puppies were born at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. One male pup remains at the Zoo, while on 6 May, the other six puppies—four males and two females—were placed in wild Mexican wolf dens as part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’ Mexican Wolf Recovery Program.
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Minnesota researchers find that wolves go fishing in the spring
From Kare11 News:
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Spawning fish…apparently.
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Wolves kill livestock in Jefferson County
From The Madras Pioneer:
Within the past few weeks, a wolf or wolves have killed two calves owned by one rancher. The rancher wishes to remain anonymous. His ranch straddles county lines. One of the calves died in Deschutes County, the other in Jefferson County.
This is the first confirmed livestock kill in Jefferson County by a wolf since wolves started recolonizing Northeast Oregon more than a decade ago.
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Ancient wolf DNA could help unlock animal survival mysteries
From Axios De Moines:
Ancient DNA of sheep and wolves are among the latest animal remains being researched by a Des Moines University scientist who’s been exploring Natural Trap Cave (NTC) in Wyoming for nearly a decade.
Why it matters: The work may help unravel mysteries about animal survival through evolution during the Ice Age.
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Who is afraid of the big, bad wolf? Not Regina Mossotti
From West News Magazine:
A constant stream of howling emanated from the second row as soon as Regina Mossotti’s name was announced at the TEDxStLouis presentation on May 13. It was fitting, given that her talk was titled “Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
“Raise your hand if you’ve ever seen a movie or read a story with a big, bad wolf in it?” Mossotti, former Director of Animal Care and Conservation at the Endangered Wolf Center (EWC), asked the audience. She then shared how movies perpetuate a negative image of wolves, showing them as scary animals, snarling and often covered with blood. She said those images portray the wolf as something to be feared, and if we fear something, we don’t want to save it.
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Northern Minnesota researchers find that wolves are accomplished anglers
From MPR News:
In the spring of 2017, University of Minnesota graduate researcher Tom Gable had a rare, surreal and as it turns out, fortuitous encounter with a wolf while he was tromping through the thick, swampy woods of far northern Minnesota.
He knew a wolf that researchers had outfit with a GPS tracking collar had been spending time in the area. As he approached, he spotted it splashing in a creek, only 30 feet away. So he quickly hid behind some shrubs, pulled out his iPhone and videoed the scene.
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