Mexican Wolf Heads North Towards Valles Caldera National Preserve

From National Parks Traveler:

A female Mexican wolf with a penchant for roaming has turned up in northern New Mexico near Valles Caldera National Preserve, hundreds of miles from the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area.

Asha was tracked recently to Jemez Springs on the southern boundary of the national preserve, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Late last year the wolf also had roamed north, prompting Fish and Wildlife Service crews to capture her and return her to the experimental population area.

 

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GOP bill would end restrictions on spring hound hunting and training in northern Wisconsin

From Wisconsin Public Radio:

A GOP proposal would eliminate restrictions for hound hunting and training on wild animals during the spring in northern Wisconsin, drawing support from hound hunters and opposition from animal protection groups.

Sen. Romaine Quinn, R-Cameron, and Rep. Chanz Green, R-Grand View, are lead authors of the legislation.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources currently bars people from hunting or training with dogs on free-roaming wild animals from May 1 to June 30 on any public or private lands in northern Wisconsin. The restricted area extends along a line north of U.S. Highway 8 in northwestern Wisconsin to State Highway 22 in northeastern Wisconsin.

 

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Arrival of male red wolf brings new hope to Durham museum’s mating program for endangered species

From WHQR Public Media:

A new red wolf has arrived at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham.

Museum staff said they hope the new male will help with population recovery efforts for the endangered species. Red wolves are considered the rarest wolf species in the world. The only wild population exists in North Carolina, with fewer than 20 red wolves.

Nine-year-old Adeyha joined the museum last week. Sherry Samuels, the museum’s senior director of animal care, said Adeyha’s name comes from the Cherokee language, meaning “in the oak woods.” Fittingly, he’ll be paired for breeding with Oak, the museum’s female red wolf.

 

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Biologists are keeping a close eye on a rare Mexican wolf that is wandering out of bounds

From Manistee News Advocate:

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Northern New Mexico or bust — that seems to be the case for at least one Mexican gray wolf that is intent on wandering beyond the boundaries set for managing the rarest subspecies of gray wolf if North America.

 

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Wolf attacks on pets reported in Ely and Babbitt areas

From The Timberjay:

BABBITT- Anthony Bremel, the local conservation officer for the Babbitt area cautioned pet owners to be aware of recent wolf attacks on pets, which may be more likely given the low deer population.

 

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Arrival of male red wolf brings new hope to Durham museum’s mating program for endangered species

From WUNC 91.5:

A new red wolf has arrived at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham.

Museum staff said they hope the new male will help with population recovery efforts for the endangered species. Red wolves are considered the rarest wolf species in the world. The only wild population exists in North Carolina, with fewer than 20 red wolves.

Nine-year-old Adeyha joined the museum last week. Sherry Samuels, the museum’s senior director of animal care, said Adeyha’s name comes from the Cherokee language, meaning “in the oak woods.” Fittingly, he’ll be paired for breeding with Oak, the museum’s female red wolf.

 

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Never-Before-Seen Wolf Predation Finally Caught on Film

From Explorers Web:

Wolves will eat just about anything. And humans will film just about anything.

So it’s a surprise when we’ve never seen a wolf catch a particular prey species before. But you can now cross seals off the list.

Researchers in Alaska’s Katmai National Park caught a wolf dragging a harbor seal to shore, killing it, and eating pieces of it (after briefly leaving to grab a dinner date).

 

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Carnivore coexistence team working to help smooth wolf reintroduction in Colorado

From CBS Colorado:

Wolf reintroduction to Colorado is imminent, and while Colorado Parks and Wildlife put the finishing touches on the plan, a team over at Colorado State University is working to make sure things go as smoothly as humanly possible.

Kevin Crooks, a professor in the fish, wildlife and conservation biology department at CSU and director of the Center for Human Carnivore Coexistence, has been studying carnivores of all kinds for years. He’s been tapped to help make sure the reintroduction of wolves into Colorado’s high country and Western Slope is the least dangerous for the wolves, along with the humans and livestock in those areas.

 

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Watch The First Footage Of A Single Wolf Hunting And Killing A Seal

From IFLScience:

Wolves are famously pack animals, living and hunting together in family groups, they are famous for working together to take down prey items like caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and moose (Alces alces). Now, observations of wolves in Katmai National Park have shown they have developed a taste for a new kind of prey: marine mammals.

 

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Researchers observe wolves hunting and killing sea otters and harbor seals on Alaska’s Katmai coast

From Oregon State University:

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Firsthand observations of a wolf hunting and killing a harbor seal and a group of wolves hunting and consuming a sea otter on Alaska’s Katmai coast have led scientists to reconsider assumptions about wolf hunting behavior.

Wolves have previously been observed consuming sea otter carcasses, but how they obtain these and the frequency of scavenging versus hunting marine prey is largely unknown. Scientists at Oregon State University, the National Park Service and Alaska Department of Fish and Game are beginning to change that with a paper just published in Ecology.

 

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