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In recent years, viral videos online have spun new tales about the wolf, attributing immense ecological changes to the canine. Scientists debunk myth that Yellowstone wolves changed entire ...
The restoration of the gray wolf to the Yellowstone National Park not only restores an important ecosystem component (the wolf) and process (predation by wolves) to bring the park into better ecological balance, but it also is economically sound. After weighing the costs (including full reimbursement to ranchers for the loss of livestock) and ...
It is estimated that approximately 500 wolves are present now throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The wolves’ presence played a vital role in increasing the health and diversity of ...
The history of wolves in Yellowstone includes the extirpation, absence and reintroduction of wild populations of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) to Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. When the park was created in 1872, wolf populations were already in decline in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
The reintroduction of wolves in 1995 has significantly decreased the coyote population, although those who remain often scavenge from wolf kills. Throughout the restoration project, coyote research has continued, with an eye toward identifying the interactions between coyotes and wolves and on assessing the effects of wolves on coyote populations.
Adult wolves at Yellowstone were documented on video carting "toys" — in the form of bones of various shapes and sizes — back to their offspring. Adult wolves at Yellowstone were documented on ...
So, because the keystone predators, the wolves, had been removed from the Yellowstone-Idaho ecosystem, the ecosystem changed. This change affected other species as well. Coyotes filled in the niche left by wolves, but could not control the large ungulate populations.
Video shows the intense moment a pack of wolves chases down a herd of more than 300 elk in Yellowstone National Park. The video follows the elk herd as it races away from wolves trailing behind it.