The Alaska wilderness has always had a way of humbling the assumptions of scientists. But even by that standard, what researchers have documented on the remote islands of southeastern Alaska over the ...

On a remote Alaskan shoreline, biologists watched a white wolf drag something enormous onto a sandbar and begin a half-hour struggle that would overturn decades of assumptions about what wolves are ...

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In late 2020, a female coastal wolf collared for a study on predation patterns unexpectedly died in southeastern Alaska. The wolf, No. 202006, was only four years old. "We spent quite a bit of time ...

Wolves on an Alaskan island caused a deer population to plumet and switched to primarily eating sea otters in just a few years, a finding scientists at Oregon State University and the Alaska ...

Firsthand observations of a wolf hunting and killing a harbor seal and a group of wolves hunting and consuming a sea otter on Alaska's Katmai coast have led scientists to reconsider assumptions about ...

Wolves, bears, and their primary prey differ strikingly in their characteristics and requirements and their responses to management. In Alaska, wolves are found over most of their historic range at ...

Scientists show that wolves that are eating sea otters in Alaska have much higher concentrations of mercury than those eating other prey such as deer and moose. In late 2020, a female coastal wolf ...

The post In Alaska, Wolves Have Switched to a Prey Nobody Expected Them to Hunt appeared first on A-Z Animals. On Alaska's Prince of Wales Island, the boundary between land and ocean is blurring in an ...

If wolves in Alaska act in this manner, even though the removal of wolves might yield more prey over the short run, substantial reductions in wolves could increase rather than decrease fluctuations in ...