The Last Wild Wolves

The image of a black wolf with piercing golden eyes, set against a backdrop of falling snow, is a powerful representation of nature’s raw beauty and untamed spirit. The wolf, often regarded as a symbol of loyalty, perseverance, and inner strength, carries with it a deep sense of mystery, especially in its darker, more enigmatic…

O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — The St. Louis Zoo plans to use land it owns in a rural area of Missouri as habitat for a wolf breed on the verge of extinction, zoo officials said Monday. Only about 20 American red wolves remain in the wild due mostly to illegal hunting, vehicle strikes and habitat loss….

With a brown satchel slung over his shoulder and eyes scanning the ground, Joe Butera walked down a logging road in a remote section of the northern Adirondacks. He was looking for canid tracks and scat, like he’d seen this past winter and spring. “This is where I found three individual scats that were huge,”…

Animal friendships are always adorable, and there’s something extra sweet about friendships between two different species. Some bonds are so just so close that they transcend any other differences. That was the case for Cinnamon the goat and Felix the dog, a pair of friends so inseparable that their shelter couldn’t split them up, and…

Casey Anderson was out hiking, exploring the vastness of the earth, when he suddenly encountered something startling and frightening. Casey found an abandoned grizzly bear cub alone, with the mother not seen in the area. Instead of running away like most people, Casey felt he had to help the abandoned cub. So he took him…