Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Love them or hate them, wolves are vital members of natural ecosystems and the health of a wolf population can be an important ...

By using sound to track wolf movements and locations, we can develop suggested mitigation measures to reduce wolf–livestock interactions. Since the acoustic devices also recorded barking dogs and ...

The largest ever study of howling in the 'canid' family of species -- which includes wolves, jackals and domestic dogs -- has shown that the various species and subspecies have distinguishing ...

CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 9 (UPI) --Genetically or taxonomically speaking, wolves aren't all that closely related to humans, but they organize and behave like people, and researchers believe the ...

When a member of the wolf pack leaves the group, the howling by those left behind isn't a reflection of stress but of the quality of their relationships. So say researchers based on a study of nine ...

This time of year, the sound of a wolf howl piercing the night can really send shivers up your spine. But that call of the wild isn’t meant to scare you; it’s actually a message to other wolves.

Largest quantitative study of howling, and first to use machine learning, defines different howl types and finds that wolves use these types more or less depending on their species, resembling a ...