From SierraClub.org:
Bae, like many ingenues before her, captured the hearts and minds of people across the globe when she showed up in Southern California just before Valentine’s Day. Over a five-day period, the three-year-old wolf toured the Golden State, crossing alpine meadows, roads, and oak woodlands.
State officials call her by her government name, BEY03F, but admirers offer something with a little more heart, gesturing toward why she embarked on her 500-mile trek.
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Remote Cameras Follow Wolf’s Historic Journey into Los Angeles County
From PetaPixel.com:
Remote cameras and tracking data are documenting a wolf’s historic journey into Los Angeles County, the first confirmed sighting of the species there in nearly a century.
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Chief: Lancaster County parents charged after ZooAmerica wolf incident, child left unattended
From WGAL.com:
HERSHEY, Pa. —Police charged the parents of a 17-month-old boy, saying they left their child unsupervised at ZooAmerica and a wolf grabbed the child’s hand. The charges against the Lancaster County man and woman came down Monday.
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Wolf sightings near homes spur calls to change California gray wolf management
From KRCR.com:
SISKIYOU, California — Gray wolves were spotted closer to homes in Siskiyou County, as the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said the encounters are becoming more frequent and more concerning.
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Germany moves to legalise wolf hunting in response to livestock ‘bloodlust’
From TheGuardian.com:
Wolf hunting will be allowed in Germany under legislation passed by the lower house of parliament in response to a rapidly growing population and a sharp rise in attacks on livestock.
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These AI sound recorders are going to be the Google Nest cameras of the wild
From SFGate.com:
Deep in the heart of Yellowstone National Park, audio recorders roughly the size of hardcover books are documenting wolf barks, elk bugles and bird chirps 24 hours of the day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
But it’s the new insights into wolf behavior that have proven most useful.
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California Wolf Blazes New Trail
From SierraClub.org:
Bae, like many ingenues before her, captured the hearts and minds of people across the globe when she showed up in Southern California just before Valentine’s Day. Over a five-day period, the three-year-old wolf toured the Golden State, crossing alpine meadows, roads, and oak woodlands.
State officials call her by her government name, BEY03F, but admirers offer something with a little more heart, gesturing toward why she embarked on her 500-mile trek.
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Scientists Identify the World’s First Known Dog, Which Pushes Back the Animals’ Genetic Record by About 5,000 Years
From SmithsonianMag.com:
Two new ancient DNA studies suggest that domesticated dogs were widespread in western Eurasia more than 14,000 years ago.
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Kills despite herd protection: How is that possible?
From WildBeimWild.com:
Long-term herd protection monitoring shows that when wolf attacks occur despite herd protection measures, the wolf has usually found a weak point at some location. Only in the rarest cases has it learned to deliberately circumvent well-implemented protective measures.
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7 best places to spot the Indian wolf in the wild
From IndiaTimes.com:
The wilderness of India is often associated with tigers, elephants, and leopards, but very little is known about one of the most elusive predators of the Indian wilderness: the Indian wolf. Unlike its forest-living counterparts, this species of wolf flourishes in the open grasslands, scrublands, and semi-arid plains of India, which have traditionally been neglected when it comes to conservation efforts.
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UK wildlife park euthanizes entire wolf pack after they turned on each other
From CNN.com:
A wildlife park in southeast England has euthanized an entire wolf pack after the group’s dynamic broke down, leading to escalating conflict.
The pack of five wolves were put down after three of them sustained life-threatening injuries amid increasing violence, Wildwood Trust said in a statement shared with CNN Friday.
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