News tagged with wolf

Oct 31, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist Jonathan G. Lundgren, while exploring corn fields at night, has found a very different group of predators than the ones that feed during the ...

Wolves lose their predatory edge in mid-life, study shows

Oct 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Although most wolves in Yellowstone National Park live to be nearly six years old, their ability to kill prey peaks when they are two to three, according to a study led by Dan MacNulty and recently published ...

Iberian wolves prefer wild roe deer to domestic animals

Oct 23, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

A Spanish researcher has analysed the preferences of wolves from the north east of the Iberian Peninsula to demonstrate that, in reality, their favourite prey are roe deer, deer and wild boar, ahead of domestic ...

Wolf release in Mexico sparks concern in US

Aug 13, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- American wildlife officials and ranchers are raising questions over a plan to release a rare North American gray wolf to its historic range in northern Mexico: Will it stay south of the border and ...

California lawmakers take aim at Alaska's aerial wolf hunts

Aug 10, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 1

Alaska's predator-control program to kill wolves, which drew renewed national scrutiny last year during former Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for vice president, is under attack again in Congress.

Water webs connect spiders, residents in Southwest

Jun 25, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you are a cricket and it is a dry season on the San Pedro River in Arizona, on your nighttime ramblings to eat leaves, you are more likely to be ambushed by thirsty wolf spiders, or so ...

Grey wolf withdrawn from US endangered list

May 04, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 1

The grey wolf was Monday taken off the US list of endangered species, making a comeback 35 years after it virtually disappeared and can now be hunted in most US states, officials said.

Judge sides with environmentalists in wolf case

Apr 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- A federal judge says a lawsuit by environmental groups to keep the government from aggressively removing endangered Mexican gray wolves that have attacked livestock can move forward.

Scientists Create Innovative Listening Device to Track Wolves

Feb 25, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Tracking the elusive wolves of Idaho is a costly and exhaustive endeavor. The shadowy animals inhabit some of Idaho’s - and the country’s - most rugged and isolated terrain. The average pack of seven animals ranges across ...

Black wolves: The first genetically modified predators?

Feb 05, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (12) | 2

Emergence of black-colored wolves is the direct result of humans raising dogs as pets and beasts of burden, according to new research by a University of Calgary biologist published today by the prestigious ...

Scientists examine effect of wolves' absence and see an ecosystem 'unraveling'

Jan 29, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 1

No trace remains of the wolves whose howls ricocheted for millennia down the lush valleys of the Olympic Peninsula. Settlers and trappers killed them all in little more than three decades.

Rabies 'barrier' to save rare wolf

Nov 10, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Oxford University and Ethiopian conservationists are battling to save the world’s rarest wolf from a rabies outbreak by creating a ‘barrier’ of vaccinated wolf packs.

Extinct may not be forever for some species of Galapagos tortoises