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At The Wildlife News, we get quite a few comments from people who enter a fake email addresses. It is time to ask them to read the rules how to comment in this forum. You are free to use an alias as a name, but we want a real email, no exceptions! That prevents people…
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This replaces the 35th edition
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We fear death, so do animals, even some insects like dragonflies- “Playing possum” by possums is not a clever fraud. Instead it seems to be a last ditch involuntary device to avoid death by giving up and entering a state from which they can’t be roused when the predator leaves until minutes or hours have…
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Recent observation of a grizzly in the Pitt River, a reason for hope- One look at the forested, very scenic, and deep mountains around busy Vancouver, British Columbia and you would think the woods might be full of grizzly bears. It isn’t true, especially close to Vancouver. The Garibaldi-Pitt grizzly bear population unit (GBPU) and…
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Beyond 4 wolves in a chase, success falls because of “free riders-“ The idea that big wolf packs menace elk more than small ones when it comes to killing them just isn’t so according to a new study of Yellowstone wolves. Researchers found that hunting success falls beyond 4 wolves not because wolves get in…
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Some wolves hunted and lived after severe injuries- Sue Ware, a paleopathologist, has examined the skeletons of about 160 Park wolves, and found numerous injuries and reinjuries, but she says Park are wolves healthier on the whole than others she has studied. Yellowstone wolf skeletons hint at their lives. By Brett French. Billings Gazette.
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This replaces the 33rd edition.
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This replaces the 31st edition.