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Wolves Were Our Pets Before Dogs

Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they ...
Now that wolf populations are returning to Europe's forests after centuries of being hunted to near extinction, wildlife researchers are asking: Are these predators starting to lose their fear of ...
In September 2017 a close friend was killed in Rhodope Prefecture in Norhern Greece. Her death was initially reported as being due to an attack by wolves with the local coroner reported as saying that ...
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Introduction: The beginnings -- 1. The spaniels of San Marcos : what is a dog and who cares? -- 2. Cooperation between species -- 3. Homo canis : why humans are different than all other primates -- 4.
Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea – a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans. The study, published in ...
Humans cared for wolves long before dogs emerged, study finds - New evidence of wolves and humans living together on Swedish island points to likely prehistoric domestication ...
Understanding the “landscape of fear” that predators create in their environments has helped us uncover just how drastically ...
This is the second story in a two-part series recapping Colorado’s second year of wolf reintroduction. When Coloradans ...
The gray wolf, also called the timber wolf, is the largest member of the canine family with fur ranging from gray to brown, black or white. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...
Although the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Pet and Livestock Protecting Act that would delist gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act, there is no guarantee that it will pass ...