Coyotes are only native to Central United States and Mexico. With Wolf reintroduction gaining traction, should Coyotes be removed from these areas to support wolf populations? I honestly don’t know and I would love to hear your input.

(sources only in Italian, for now)

Long story short, a wolf has attacked a 4-year-old girl in Umbria (central Italy). This happened while she was playing in a park with her parents. Thankfully, the girl survived.

It is the 3rd case in 3 years and people are understandably worried and angry.

https://tg24.sky.it/cronaca/2026/07/10/bambina-aggredita-animale-parco-arrone?fbclid=IwdGRzaAS-ypxjbGNrBL7KmWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnvMp7W9Zb2JwdYUTQpd1g1u6x-6xrM_gfN_CkyiL5zGqm7OHf_8c8VMhHat_aem_yyBRHvZ9VivOEKhfY13RLw

Hi, I was recently watching some documentaries about homosexuality in animals and was wondering how this would work in wolves...

Normally people would consider the "alphas" or "breeding pair" the parents of the pack, but would a pack even form if the wolves are of the same gender? Would they join a pre-existing pack or vice versa? Or could they be considered their own pack even if it's only 2 members?

Hello, my first post here. A little background on me real quick, wolves probably started me down my life path. My childhood love for the species and wildlife as a whole is what spurned me to go to college for a bachelor's in natural resources, with emphases in wildlife and fisheries ecology and management, and ecological restoration.

Someone, approximately named malinoisjaw, posted a development timeline of an ambassador pup about a day ago which just popped up on my feed. I've always had complicated feelings on captive populations of wild species, despite having interned at a zoo in highschool. The discussions in the comments reflected some of those feelings, and reading them in our modern context actually made me realize something I hadn't personally considered before.

In America in particular, but also the globe as a whole, we've taken a lot of our progress in wildlife management for granted. But severe, sudden relapse in policy is all too real a threat. With our modern technologies, given carte blanche, the human population could likely extripate any K selected species in the country within just a decade or 2. A captive population acts as an air bag against this worst case scenario.

Mind you, i believe this benefit should be viewed as a second order priority to those wild populations' viabilities and the individual animals' standard of living. But in so far as maintaining the captive population doesn't negatively impact either of these higher priorities, I think that the safe guard they provide against human extirpation is actually really valuable and something worth considering when we discuss the merits and evils of captive populations.

A bit of fun : https://youtu.be/dMCBeT59TYw

A bit of fun : https://youtu.be/dMCBeT59TYw

"If you rebuild a Chihuahua with wolf DNA, it’s not a Chihuahua anymore — it’s a wolf wearing a tiny corpse. Same thing here: if you reintroduce direwolf traits back into wolfdogs — bone density, skull structure, primal mass — you’re not just ‘modifying’ a gray wolf, you’re resurrecting a direwolf. Genetics define what an animal is. Change the genetics enough, and you’re not tweaking the old — you’re bringing back the ancient.

Hey everyone so I know a alpha male wolf leads the pack in a hunt, but are they also the first to attack or do they send the lower ranking members first to preserve their health like male lions do?

https://x.com/jgn_paleo/status/1909800784084320685?s=46