The shamanistic universe of Central Asian nomads: wolves and she-wolves

The Wolves of Yellowstone

Perhaps no other large predator is more deeply embedded in our psyche than the wolf. Vilified throughout history in both legend and literature, humans had effectively eradicated wolves from Europe by 1850. In the United States, the government declared a war of extermination against gray wolves (Canis lupus) beginning in the early 1800s. Hunters, ranchers, and farmers eagerly enlisted, using let...

Wolves at the more

Wolves in America and Europe are facing a change of fortune after centuries of hunting that have seen them become extinct in many areas and reduced to tiny populations elsewhere. But new conservation measures in the US and Europe are having a dramatic impact. Wolves have already recolonised parts of the US Rocky Mountains, and they have been reintroduced successfully to parts of Idaho and Monta...

Heterozygosity of the Yellowstone wolves.

IVANA JANKOVIC,* BRIDGETT M. V O N HOLDT† and NOAH A. ROSENBERG*‡ *Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, 2017 Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, †University of California, Los Angeles, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 621 Charles E. Young Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA, ‡Department of Human Genetics and the Life Sciences I...

Distribution and Abundance of Wolves

At the time wolves were federally protected in the mid-1970’s, Minnesota contained the only known reproducing wolf population in the lower 48 states, except for that on Isle Royale. Over the years, much attention has been focused on studying and monitoring Minnesota’s wolves. Research efforts began in the mid-1930’s (Olson 1938) and with few lapses continue to this day. Efforts to delineate wol...

Aspen, Elk and Wolves in Yellowstone: Are Aspen Recovering Since the Return of Wolves