Author Archives: Nathan Lyle
Wolves Use Diverse Tactics to Track Partially Migratory Prey
August 29, 2025
Shawler et al. highlight dynamic predator responses to prey with variable migratory behavior. Wolves tracked partially migratory elk using diverse movement tactics, including migratory coupling. Some wolves moved young pups to homesites closer to migratory elk summer range, challenging assumptions … read more
National Wolfwatcher Coalition Announces 2025 Wolf Education Mini-Grants Available
February 4, 2025
We are proud to announce that we will again be awarding mini-grants for wolf education and includes the promotion of non-lethal measures to minimize wolf conflicts. Due date for submission is July 31, 2025 and will be awarded in the amount … read more
Posted in Front Page News, Grants
Intrinsic and environmental drivers of pairwise cohesion in wild Canis social groups
February 1, 2025
Animals within social groups respond to costs and benefits of sociality by adjusting the proportion of time they spend in close proximity to other individuals in the group (cohesion). Variation in cohesion between individuals, in turn, shapes important group-level processes … read more
Posted in All News, Biology, Resources | Tagged animal sociality, canis, cohesion, cooperative behavior, coyotes, group size, human footprint, wolves
A mummified Pleistocene gray wolf pup
February 1, 2025
In July 2016, a mummified carcass of an ancient wolf (Canis lupus) pup (specimen YG 648.1) was discovered in thawing permafrost in the Klondike goldfields, near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada (Figure 1A). The wolf pup mummy was recovered along a … read more
Alliances between conservation and animal activism
February 1, 2025
Conservation is in no danger of being too effective. One means of enhancing effectiveness is via alliances, such as between conservationists and animal activists and others who have similar or common goals. By acting jointly to further campaigns to pass … read more
Posted in Human Dimensions, Resources
Species recovery as a half empty process: the case against ignoring social ecology for gray wolf recovery
February 1, 2025
The criteria used to assess recovery under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) often fall short when considering social, group-living species. To illustrate this, we use recent insights on sociality in gray wolves to highlight how such definitional failures in … read more
Posted in Biology, Resources | Tagged conservation, Gray Wolves, social group, species management, structured reproduction
