Visitors at Yellowstone National Park may get lucky enough to hear the howling of wolves in the distance at the park. However, those moonlight nights were once silent, after the natural population of ...
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A Yellowstone wolf (Courtesy NPS/Jacob W. Frank) Editor’s note: WyoFile partnered with Mountain Journal to produce this story. If not for a series of tones broadcasting her location, no one would’ve ...
In Yellowstone’s wild chess match between wolves and cougars, it turns out the real power play is theft. After tracking nearly a decade of GPS data and thousands of kill sites, researchers found that ...
A new study shows that interactions between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park are driven by wolves stealing prey killed by cougars and that shifts in cougar diets to smaller prey help ...
Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Mountain Journal. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Around Crystal Creek, where the road bridges the Lamar River at the fringe of Yellowstone National Park’s ...
Large carnivores are both clashing and coexisting in the western United States. Although wolves dominate cougars and steal their prey, cougars' shift from elk- to deer-heavy diets, paired with a ...