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Gray wolves are thriving at Isle Royale National Park five years after authorities began a last-ditch attempt to prevent the species from dying out on the Lake Superior island chain, scientists ...
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A gray wolf relocated this fall from mainland Minnesota to Isle Royale National Park has died of unknown causes, officials said Tuesday, a minor setback in a ...
[2] [3] From 2018 to 2019, 19 wolves were released at Isle Royale in hopes of bringing stability to the ecosystem, and as of 2020, there are estimated to be 14 wolves remaining on the island. [4] The relationship between wolves and moose on Isle Royale has been the subject of the longest predator-prey research study, begun in 1958. [5]
Jul. 12—Isle Royale's revived wolf population appears to be doing well, with several new pups born over the last two years, while the island's overpopulated moose herd continues to crash.
A small isolated highly inbred population of gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, USA, was considered in 2019 to be at imminent risk of extinction. [22] This gray wolf population had been experiencing severe inbreeding depression primarily due to the homozygous expression of strongly deleterious recessive mutations.
Gray wolves (Canis lupus) had a population established on Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior, which dropped to two individuals in 2017. This has led to an unmitigated growth in its moose population (Alces alces) and a call for translocation to restart the Isle Royale wolf population. Individuals were taken from the Great Lakes region in ...
Since 1959, a research team has spent most of the winter observing the interplay between wolves and moose at Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior. Experts from several universities, the park ...
Isle Royale (/ ˈ r ɔɪ əl /, ROY-əl) [1] is an island of the Great Lakes located in the northwest of Lake Superior and part of the U.S. state of Michigan. The island and the 450 surrounding smaller islands and waters make up Isle Royale National Park .