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MOSCOW, Idaho - The University of Idaho has received a nearly $650,000 donation that will fund research into native animal species in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE).
MOSCOW, Idaho - The University of Idaho has received a nearly $650,000 donation that will fund research into native animal species in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE).
Over the past 30 years, efforts to recover gray wolf populations in the United States have been broadly successful, with many regions now sporting robust populations of the charismatic carnivore. Writing in BioScience, wolf experts David E. Ausband and L. David Mech describe the conservation landscape and also the obstacles that wolves face as their populations expand into their historical ranges.
The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs are simply families