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Animals News tagged with wolves

Do Wolves Kill for Sport?
Animals  (tags: wolves, survival, endangered, massacred, tragedy, wildife )

Simone
- 6 hours ago - slate.com
During this fall's inaugural wolf-hunting season in Montana, hunters killed the matriarch of a Yellowstone wolf pack that researchers had been studying for more than a decade. Park officials suspect that her mate and three other pack members were also
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About 50 Wolves Killed in Montana Hunt So Far
Animals  (tags: wolves, massacred, montana, wolf killers, slaugher, tragedy, humans, cruelty )

Simone
- 7 hours ago - flatheadbeacon.com
About 50 wolves have been taken so far in Montana's wolf hunting season. Carolyn Sime, wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, says the state may reach its quota of 75 by the time the season ends Nov. 29. This year's gray wolf hunt,
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Middle-Aged Wolves Retire From the Hunt
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Katie
- 4 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
According to a new study, most wolves lose their prowess by age 3, just halfway through their lives. After that, they have to rely on younger members of the pack to catch the majority of their meals.
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Wolves, Moose and Biodiversity: An Unexpected Connection
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, moose, wolves, biodiversity, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 5 days ago - newswise.com
Newswise -- Moose eat plants; wolves kill moose. What difference does this classic predator-prey interaction make to biodiversity?
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THEY ARE SHOOTING THE "MOTHERS" OF ALL DOGS IN ALASKA AND IDAHO TODAY.
Animals  (tags: wolves, wolf slaughter, massacre, dogs, humans, betrayal, cruetly )

Simone
- 5 days ago - gather.com
Even though your dog may not understand your effort in the same way we do, I would bet that she or he will understand it on another level--the same level that the Gray Wolf knows, probably with great bewilderment, that it has been betrayed by the species
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Fate of Cottonwood Pack Uncertain
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, wolf, cottonwood, pack, fate, yellowstone, montana, suffering, endangered, cruelty, extinction, killing, sadness, death, hunters, investigation, wildlife, protection, humans, environment, habitat, research, science, biology, study )

Tom
- 6 days ago - billingsgazette.com
Animal rights advocates and environmentalists have said the killing of the pack's two alpha wolves, as well as a collared female and pup, will result in the death of the pack's remaining wolves. The survivors include four adult gray males and two pups.
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Shooting of Collared Wolves Impacts Research
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, wolf, yellowstone, montana, suffering, endangered, cruelty, extinction, killing, sadness, death, hunters, investigation, wildlife, protection, humans, environment, habitat, research, science, biology, study )

Tom
- 6 days ago - billingsgazette.com
Yellowstone National Park's scientific research on wolves got caught in the crossfire of Montana's inaugural wolf season when hunters killed two collared wolves just north of the park earlier this month. "They (the wolves) got caught off guard."
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Get Your Wolf On
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, wolves, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 7 days ago - daily.sightline.org
Somewhat bizarrely, the future of this endangered species -- which you might think would depend largely on science -- in fact depends greatly on public opinion. So if you're part of the public and you have an opinion, it might be a good to share your
9 comments
Bad News on the Wolf Front - Key Alpha Wolves Killed in Montana
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Cher
- 12 days ago - treehugger.com
Three alpha wolves vital to a study tracking their pack's patterns were killed earlier this month by hunters in Montana. The study effectively ended, but the controversy around the wolf hunts, which were allowed to start again this year, is sparked up.
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Southern Montana's Wolf Hunting Season Lasts Two Days
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Cher
- 12 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Wolf hunting season in a large southern district of Montana ends after sunset tonight, just one day after the season officially opened. The 12-wolf quota was quickly exceeded by one.
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Montana Wolf Hunt Is Stalked By Controversy
Animals  (tags: wolves, wildanimals, wildlife, animals, animalwelfare, death, humans, protection, habitat, environment )

Cal
- 13 days ago - latimes.com
The demise of a much-studied pack raises questions about lifting the hunting ban in areas bordering Yellowstone park.
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Save Greater Yellowstone Wolves ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, AnimalWelfare, environment, killing, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 14 days ago - all-creatures.org
Tell Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to withdraw his flawed delisting rule that prematurely removed vital protections for wolves in the northern Rockies region. Already, 60 wolves have been killed under this plan.
11 comments
Iberian Wolves Prefer Wild Roe Deer To Domestic Animals
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 16 days ago - sciencedaily.com
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 ruminants (sheep, goats, cows and horses).
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Decline in Big Predators Wreaking Havoc on Ecosystems, OSU Researchers Say
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, predators, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 17 days ago - all-creatures.org
The study authors, who also included researchers from U.C. Berkeley and New Mexico State University, suggest that increasing wolf populations could actually benefit sheep growers by reducing coyotes.
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Montana Stops Wolf Hunting Near Yellowstone
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, hunting, Yellowstone, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 17 days ago - all-creatures.org
Montana wildlife commissioners shut down gray wolf hunting Tuesday in backcountry adjacent to Yellowstone National Park after nine of the predators were killed there in recent weeks
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