Wildlife interactions are an intriguing prospect for many people due to the dynamics in play. Unlike human society, wildlife is not dominated by law; everyone has their roles, and they follow them to ...

Gray wolves and cougars are not only iconic to the Yellowstone National Park landscape, but they also play important roles in ...

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When gray wolves returned to Yellowstone National Park, the public heard a simple story: predators came back, balance returned, and the whole ecosystem changed. That narrative held that elk numbers ...

In Yellowstone National Park, the reason cats and canines don’t get along is simple — wolves will kill cougars and steal their food. A recently published study that utilized GPS collar data collected ...

In Yellowstone’s wild chess match between wolves and cougars, it turns out the real power play is theft. After tracking nearly a decade of GPS data and thousands of kill sites, researchers found that ...

A tour group watched a pack of wolves unsuccessfully try to take down a bison in Yellowstone National Park this past weekend.

What some see as the unofficial mascot of Banff is also a critical part of balancing its delicate ecosystem as its population ...

Across North America, mountain lions, bears, and gray wolves have made a remarkable comeback over the last 50 years. Once nearly exterminated, these animals have been recovering their populations and ...

For the past 15 years, Luke Painter has been traveling to the northern range of Yellowstone National Park, where mountains rise and tributaries carve valleys of sage, willows and trees. This includes ...

WDFW biologists Ben Maletzke, left, and Trent Roussin do a health check on a wolf after collaring it prior to releasing it. (Photo courtesy of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife) The gray wolf ...