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395 results for: Wolves

  1. Animals

    Ecotourism could bring new dangers to animals

    The presence of kindly tourists could make animals more vulnerable to predation and poaching, a new study warns.

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  2. Anthropology

    ‘The Invaders’ sees dogs as key to modern humans’ success

    Neandertals went extinct when Homo sapiens transformed wolves into hunting aids, author proposes.

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  3. Animals

    Animals give clues to the origins of human number crunching

    Guppies, dogs, chickens, crows, spiders — lots of animals have number sense without knowing numbers.

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  4. Animals

    A tale of wolves, moose and missing ice

    Wolves have persisted on Lake Superior’s Isle Royale for decades, keeping moose in check, but climate change may doom the balance between the two species.

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  5. Paleontology

    Ancient wolf skulls challenge dog domestication timeline

    A 3-D analysis of two ancient canine skulls from Russia and Belgium suggests the fossils were of wolves, not dogs.

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  6. Animals

    Same math describes relationship between diverse predators and prey

    From lions to plankton, predators have about the same relationship to the amount of prey, a big-scale ecology study predicts.

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  7. Animals

    Seeing humans as superpredators

    People have become a unique predator, hunting mostly adults of other species.

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  8. Animals

    ‘Domesticated’ explores how humans have altered animals

    Science journalist Richard Francis delves into the genetic changes humans have caused in dogs, cats, pigs, horses, camels and more.

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  9. Animals

    China’s reindeer are on the decline

    A small, semi-domesticated population of reindeer found in northern China is suffering due to threats ranging from inbreeding to tourism.

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  10. Genetics

    Exploring dog origins with data and a dose of imagination

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  11. Science & Society

    NCAA tournament puts prediction strategies to the test

    When it comes to strategies for building the most winning bracket during March Madness, all bets are off.

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  12. Life

    Feedback

    Readers discuss dog origins and how important a sense of scale is in science journalism.

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