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 ...
On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...
ELY, Minn. — A new exhibit at the International Wolf Center in Ely explores how wolves survive during the summer months, a tougher time to bring down their usual prey. Titled “Starvation, Adaptation ...
A new study has found that cougars are making slight changes to their diets in order to avoid encounters with wolves. In ...
BILLINGS – Since wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in 1995, Kristin Barker jokingly estimated there have been “12.75 bajillion studies” conducted to answer: How a recovering ...
In Yellowstone, cougars coexist with wolves by changing what they eat and where they hunt, minimizing conflict driven largely by prey theft.
In late 2020, a female coastal wolf collared for a study on predation patterns unexpectedly died in southeastern Alaska. The wolf, No. 202006, was only four years old. "We spent quite a bit of time ...
A new study shows how wolves steal kills from cougars in Yellowstone, driving an uneven feeding rivalry and changing cougar ...