Tag: wolves

In a study involving several wolves and dogs, both animals performed better at finding hidden food if they had observed ...

Ice Age saber-tooth cats and dire wolves experienced a high incidence of bone disease in their joints, according to a ...

The wolf’s comeback in Europe has preoccupied people all across the continent over the last years. Where is it? What ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, provides interesting new evidence about the evolution ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Wolves on an Alaskan island caused a deer population to plumet and switched to primarily eating sea ...

Canine distemper virus (CDV) outbreaks can drive the evolution of fur color and mating behavior in wolves, according to a ...

New research from the University of Oxford, Yellowstone National Park, and Penn State, published today in the journal Science, may ...

New research from the University of Oxford, Yellowstone National Park, and Penn State, published today in the journal Science, may ...

When it comes to showing affection towards people, many dogs are naturals. Now comes word reported in the journal Ecology ...

Key findings include: Credit: Sarah Hoy Key findings include: A doubling of the wolf population, now estimated at 28 total ...

A small study did not find evidence that wolves or dogs could form reputations of humans as “generous” or “selfish” ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University scientists are proposing management changes on western federal lands that they say would result ...

Researchers at the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, measured the sleep of the dog’s wild counterpart, the wolf for ...

The Swedish Parliament recently presented its ambition to drastically reduce number of wolves in Sweden – from approximately 400 down ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - In a new finding that goes against current conservation paradigms, re-introducing wolves and other predators to our landscapes ...

Predators may keep prey populations healthy by acting as a selective force against genetic diseases. A new study found that ...

For many years, researchers at Uppsala University have been exploring the genetic origins of the Scandinavian grey wolf population, which ...

If you are a wolf living in Yellowstone National Park, bears mess with you. Matthew Metz, a recent Credit: U.S. ...

Popular belief has been that small dogs, such as Pomeranians and Chihuahuas, exist because once dogs were domesticated, humans wanted ...

It’s an environmental success story that feels like a parable—the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s ...