Wolf harvests were litigated for years until Congress, under pressure from hunters and ranchers who felt that environmental lobbyists disregarded data saying that wolf populations were sufficiently robust, removed the animal from the Endangered Species List in 2011.
The instructor reminds the class that wolf pups grow up to be adult wolves because they have wolf genes not because they are raised in a forest.
The other is that the wolf population across the northern Rockies has not in fact reached sustainable levels — it is now just under 1,600 — and that wolves should be left alone until there are at least 2,000.
Caro said that wolves did not hibernate.
Not only were our informants' perceptions of the wolf changing through time but they also had the perception that wolves are changing along with the wolf - human relationship.
Don't be rude -- acknowlegde that wolf.
That wolf I showed you before wasn't even a real wolf.
Genetic analysis revealed that the wolf was not an ancestor of today's wolves.
