7/5/2023 0 Comments Evolved by N.R. Walker![]() ![]() “The wolves had buried heads in the snow,” recalls Prugh. During a field season in Alaska, the wildlife ecologist came across the remains of coyotes massacred by wolves. What the aftermath of this violence looks like is something that Prugh has witnessed firsthand. ![]() Then, as large predators were reintroduced into the wild - including wolves in Yellowstone National Park - scientists started to notice deadly (and mostly-one sided) violence erupting between old and new meat-eating residents ( SN: 7/21/20). When large carnivore populations plummeted from being hunted in vast stretches of North America, predators less threatening to humans flourished. ![]() The study is among the first to show that large cats and wolves shape the behavior of other predators outside of wilderness areas, says Laura Prugh, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |