Individuality is the frontier of understanding non-human animals. But for decades, the idea was forbidden territory. Scientists who stepped out of bounds faced withering scorn from colleagues. Jane Goodall experienced just that. After her first studies of chimpanzees, she enrolled as a doctoral student at Cambridge. There, as she later recalled in National Geographic, “It was a bit shocking to …
Wolf Reintroduction Changes Ecosystem
On a quiet spring morning, a resounding “Slap!” reverberates through the air above a remote stream leading to Lake Yellowstone. Over much of the past century, it has been a rarely heard noise in the soundscape that is Yellowstone National Park, but today is growing more common-the sound of a beaver slapping its tail on the water as a warning …
50 wolves once inhabited wild Isle Royale National Park
I have to Laugh when National Park Service say they do not interfere with wildlife…. In Yellowstone They began interfering long before they realized they had made a dire mistake when Park Officials allowed mange to be Introduced to Park Wolves in 1905 after Montana Governor ordered the State Veterinarian to infect wolves and Coyotes. Mange was introduced into the Yellowstone …
Wolves seeks refuge from hunters during breeding periods — ScienceDaily
We were very lucky to be able View the Wolves in Yellowstone’s Junction Butte Pack because it appeared they had used an age old habit to select not only their Whelping Den, but also their Rendezvous Den, up until a recent Incident that happened at the Junction Butte Rendezvous Den site! It was argued that amongst some Facebook experts, that are …