Animals

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…

By combining two pre-taxidermied wolves into one, artist Nicholas Galanin has created a startling piece. Called Inert Wolf, it was made for a traveling group exhibition that deals with humanity’s impact on the environment. “The inability to progress or move forward was the basic concept,” he tells us. It was created so that we could focus…

Wildlife officials say a far-ranging gray wolf, the first to tromp across Southern California in more than a hundred years, has been found dead near a roadway a little more than an hour’s drive north of downtown Los Angeles. It appeared to have been struck by a vehicle. The male wolf, named OR93 when it…

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,”…

Meet Jupiter, this enormous Colombian lion who became famous during the years living at Refugio Villa Lorena. Villa Lorena is a special sanctuary for wild creatures, where all these abused animals received human love and care. Ana Julia Torres, this kind-hearted woman, takes care of all her non-human friends and gives them all the proper…

The Robinson family bought a house in an isolated area, where they wanted to build a farm. Mrs. Robinson was pregnant and had to give birth to her second child, a boy, in 4 months. As soon as they moved into the new house, they started arranging the child’s room to be ready when the…