STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Coyote? Wolf? Someone’s wandering pet? The answer could be crucial for all of Staten Island. There’s a video making the rounds showing some kind of animal dragging a deer carcass off the road. The footage looks to have been shot in Travis, perhaps on the fringes of Freshkills Park. The nighttime video, shot from inside an idling …
2018 Montana Wolf Season Slaughters 315 Reported Sacred Wolves
Last Year Montana Slaughtered 315 Sacred Wolves. With only a few days remaining before the end of Montana’s general wolf-hunting season on March 15, a record 315 wolves have been harvested across the state, with the bulk of them taken before cold temperatures and heavy snows made hunting and trapping conditions more difficult. As of March 10, preliminary results from …
‘Wolf inside’ pet dogs helps them cooperate with humans, study finds
Dogs cooperate well with humans because of “the wolf within,” new research suggests. The study, published in Scientific Reports last week, claimed that dogs work well with humans due to specific behavioral characteristics they share with wolves. Led by Friederike Range from the Konrad Lorenz Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, researchers studied how dogs and grey wolves cooperated with humans to solve …
Wolves and Wolverines: A Complicated Relationship
Wolves and Wolverines: A Complicated Relationship The larger mammal will prey on the smaller, but wolverines prefer areas occupied by wolves over areas that aren’t. I stood up on my snow machine as we approached, back straightened and muscles tensed. One of our satellite-collared wolverines, a young female named Avalanche, had stopped moving 48 hours ago, long enough to warrant …