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The wolf is the prominent predator on Isle Royale. Wolves on the island have, historically, been separated into three or four packs, with each pack usually having between three and eight members, including two or three pups.
Isle Royale National Park is known for its timber wolf and moose populations, which are studied by scientists investigating predator-prey relationships in a closed environment. There is a cyclical relationship between the two animals: as the moose increase in population, so do the wolves.
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 ...
Historically neither moose nor wolves inhabited Isle Royale. Just prior to becoming a national park the largest mammals on Isle Royale were Canadian Lynx and the Boreal woodland caribou. Archeological evidence indicates both of these species were present on Isle Royale for 3,500 years prior to being removed by direct human actions (hunting ...
A stretch of unusually warm weather has forced federal officials to suspend researchers' annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades. Isle ...
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 ...
1966 photo by David Mech: Wolves holding moose at bay at Isle Royale. Mech was born in Auburn, New York, on January 18, 1937, and raised in Syracuse. [3] He obtained a B.S. degree in conservation from Cornell University in 1958 [3] and a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology from Purdue University in 1962.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Moose are thriving at Isle Royale National Park, but the trees on which they feast are paying a heavy price, scientists reported Tuesday.