From CowboyStateDaily.com:
Players of the online game WolfQuest virtually put themselves in the place of Yellowstone wolves, sometimes becoming so immersed in the experience that they cry when their wolf character dies.
WolfQuest isn’t just for entertainment, it’s meant to be educational and realistic, the game’s producer, Dave Schaller of St. Paul, Minnesota, told Cowboy State Daily.
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200,000-Year-Old Teeth Reveal Hidden Climate Stress in Grey Wolves
From DiscoverMagazine.com:
Grey wolves are often portrayed as supremely adaptable survivors, capable of thriving almost anywhere. But new fossil evidence suggests that even these iconic predators feel the strain of a warming world.
By examining microscopic wear patterns on wolf teeth spanning more than 200,000 years, researchers have uncovered that as the climate warms, wolves work harder for their meals — and literally grind their teeth down in the process.
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Wolf-Moose Foundation: Saving Michigan’s 68-year ecological research project
From MLive.com:
HOUGHTON, Mich. – Supporters of the world’s longest-running predator-prey study on Isle Royale have launched a new nonprofit foundation and want to raise $2.2 million to protect the research from uncertain federal funding.
Wolf sighting prompts class cancellation at Butte Falls Charter School [Oregon]
From KTVZ.com:
BUTTE FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Butte Falls Charter School canceled classes at its Natural Resource Center on Feb. 12 after a wolf was sighted near the property. The animal was spotted at approximately 1:15 p.m. in close proximity to the center, which is located outside of town across from the Butte Falls Prospect Highway.
Assistant Principal Ana Apgar contacted the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to monitor the situation and ensure student safety. The school is working with state and federal authorities to manage the presence of wolves in the area.
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Wolf abandons catch to keep fishing, bear senses opportunity
From USAToday.com:
Trail-cam footage from Minnesota shows a wolf dropping two fish in the forest before rushing out of frame, presumably to continue fishing.
The footage, featured Monday by Voyageurs Wolf Project, was captured last spring near a creek that a wolf pack is known to utilize as a prey source.
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Hundreds Of Thousands Pretend They’re Yellowstone Wolves In Online Game ‘WolfQuest’
From CowboyStateDaily.com:
Players of the online game WolfQuest virtually put themselves in the place of Yellowstone wolves, sometimes becoming so immersed in the experience that they cry when their wolf character dies.
WolfQuest isn’t just for entertainment, it’s meant to be educational and realistic, the game’s producer, Dave Schaller of St. Paul, Minnesota, told Cowboy State Daily.
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From Plumas County to LA — a wolf’s 500-mile yearlong trek to find love
From SacramentoBee.com:
Looking for a mate in Los Angeles could easily put you in the path of a few wolves. Or so the 3-year-old female wolf dubbed BEY-03F may have felt as she made her way to LA County last weekend, part of a yearlong 500-mile journey that started in northern end the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Plumas County.
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Wolves are forced to work harder for food as winters get warmer
From Earth.com:
Gray wolves don’t just change where they roam when the climate shifts. New research suggests they also change how they eat.
In warmer periods, wolves appear to consume harder parts of carcasses, including bones, as if they’re squeezing every last bit of nutrition out of a meal when conditions make hunting and feeding more difficult.
The study was led by the University of Bristol with the Natural History Museum.
France loosens rules on allowing farmers to shoot wolves
From Yahoo.com:
The French government said Monday it would authorise the shooting of wolves that attack livestock even outside protected enclosures, a policy shift welcomed by farmers, a powerful and increasingly disgruntled constituency.
Once hunted to extinction in France, wolves began crossing over from Italy after gaining protected status under the 1979 Bern Convention.
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Five gray wolves captured by CDFW [California]
From Appeal-Democrat.com:
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recently completed helicopter capture operations resulting in the satellite collaring of five gray wolves in northern California.
Operations occurred between Jan. 12 and 20 in Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, and Tehama counties. The wolves collared were associated with the Whaleback and Harvey packs.
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Cody Roberts [Wyoming] Wants No Testimony About Running Wolf Down, Taping Its Mouth Shut
From CowboyStateDaily.com:
A lawyer for Cody Roberts wants to bar testimony about him allegedly running a wolf down with a snowmobile or taping its mouth shut. Those are “prior acts” to taking the wolf to a local bar, according to a motion filed Monday in Roberts’ animal cruelty case.
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