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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

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

Temporal dynamics in gray wolf space use suggest stabilizing range in the Great Lakes region
November 6, 2024
Species distribution models can facilitate conservation planning and action but presume species-environment relationships are stable, which is not the case for invasive or recolonizing species only partially occupying their potential distributions. This complicates our understanding of colonization and recolonization processes … read more
Posted in Biology, Resources | Tagged Equilibrium, gray wolf, Range stabilization, recolonization, Space use, Species distribution

Habitat selection of resident and non‐resident gray wolves: implications for habitat connectivity
November 6, 2024
Habitat selection studies facilitate assessing and predicting species distributions and habitat connectivity, but habitat selection can vary temporally and among individuals, which is often ignored. We used GPS telemetry data from 96Gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the western Great Lakes … read more

Not afraid of the big bad wolf: calls from large predators do not silence mesopredators
March 9, 2024
Large predators are known to shape the behavior and ecology of sympatric predators via conflict and competition, with mesopredators thought to avoid large predators, while dogs suppress predator activity and act as guardians of human property. However, interspecific communication between … read more
Posted in Biology | Tagged Canis familiaris, Canis latrans, Canis lupus, eavesdropping, ecology of fear, interspecific communication