Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Love them or hate them, wolves are vital members of natural ecosystems and the health of a wolf population can be an important ...

Sound Science: Tracking Gray Wolves by Their Howls by Dr. Angela Dassow, Carthage College Wolf–human conflicts are an ongoing concern that can lead to both legal and illegal killing of wild wolves, ...

CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 9 (UPI) --Genetically or taxonomically speaking, wolves aren't all that closely related to humans, but they organize and behave like people, and researchers believe the ...

The largest ever study of howling in the 'canid' family of species -- which includes wolves, jackals and domestic dogs -- has shown that the various species and subspecies have distinguishing ...

This time of year, the sound of a wolf howl piercing the night can really send shivers up your spine. But that call of the wild isn’t meant to scare you; it’s actually a message to other wolves.

Biologists have confirmed the presence of a small pack of wolves in Oregon's Northeast corner, the first evidence in decades that a reproducing family of wolves is roaming this state. The Oregonian's ...

There is an uncanny similarity between wolf howls and emergency sirens. The sound of a siren might be effective because we evolved to be alerted by howls, suggest researchers. Hynek Burda at the Czech ...