Wildlife, conservation efforts and pets
According to a new study led by the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, an extinct Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax) may hold clues to the origins of modern dogs. Genomic analyses indicate that the two might share a common ancestor, and that up to 5.5 percent of modern dog genomes throughout East Eurasia are derived from Japanese wolf ancestry. The…
Are you curious to know your hidden personality traits? If you want to dig deeper and know more about your own personality, then this optical illusion is for you! What Do You See? Your task is simple. All you have to do is observe the illusion before you and figure out which animal you saw first. The animal you notice first…
WARNING: Video contains graphic and potentially upsetting footage The phrase “dog eat dog world” almost become a grim reality for a hunting dog named Klara. Klara, a Swedish elk hound, was out on a moose-hunting trip in Värmland County, Sweden, with her owner Tommy Berglund, when she wandered off into a dangerous situation, reports Gizmodo. “My…
The couple visited Lucerne Valley, California’s Wolf Mountain Sanctuary Wilmer Valderrama rang in his 36th year with the help of some furry friends over the weekend Demi Lovato accompanied her boyfriend of six years to the Wolf Mountain Sanctuary in Luverne Valley, California, on Saturday, to celebrate and mingle with the shelter’s residents. “Spent the day at Wolf Mountain sanctuary,” Lovato,…
Oregon Public Broadcasting brings us an epic tale: OR-7, a long-wandering wolf who ventured from northeast Oregon all the way to California in search of new territory and a chance for a mate, may have finally found one. Biologists with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say they imaged a black wolf in the area where they’ve been tracking…
Some wolf puppies are unexpectedly willing to play fetch, according to scientists who saw young wolves retrieve a ball thrown by a stranger and bring it back at that person’s urging. This behavior wouldn’t be surprising in a dog. But wolves are thought to be less responsive to human cues because they haven’t gone through…
Meet Loki, a wolf-dog hybrid who proves that dogs aren’t man’s only best friend. Loki, a low-content wolfdog who’s a husky/Arctic wolf/malamute mix, goes on amazing hiking adventures with his human, Kelly Lund, in the great outdoors of Colorado and beyond. From backcountry skiing, to sleeping in hammocks under the stars, to roaming miles of…
It’s a coyote, it’s a wolf, it’s a coywolf? This is the classification for the highly successful wolf-coyote-dog hybrid that has been rapidly expanding its population along the east coast of North America over the past century. The arrival of this carnivore marks the rare event of the creation of a new species through a…
Finnish Photographer Lassi Rautiainen expertly captures the beautiful relationship that’s shared between a gray wolf and a brown bear. One wouldn’t normally see this type of companionship in the wild, but these two seem to have a perfectly symbiotic connection. “No one can know exactly why or how the young wolf and bear became friends,” the artist…
In the fall of 2012, Brooklyn-based artist group FAILE, a collaboration between artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller, unveiled this permanent public installation entitled Wolf Within. Standing approximately 16.5 feet tall, the sculpture consists of fiberglass, steel, and granite, and is located at the site of the National Garden Park in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Wolf Within concept…