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With their piercing looks and spine-tingling howls, wolves inspire both adoration and controversy around the world. Find out how many wolf species exist, the characteristics that make each wolf's howl unique, and how the wolf population in the continental United States nearly became extinct.

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Three years after voters approved a plan to reintroduce gray wolves in Colorado, paws are finally on the ground. The state completed its first release of five animals on Monday afternoon in Grand County, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

The Colorado Conservation Alliance filed a separate lawsuit against the reintroduction on Thursday. That filing has similar allegations about the requirements for an environmental impact study. Both cases cite requirements under the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act as arguments against the process.

Wolves were native to Colorado until they were eradicated by about 1940, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Over the past decade, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reintroduced gray wolves in Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona.

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The following books and videos aout wolves provide a feast of reading and viewing for people interested in wolves. Our online Wolf Den Store and local bookstores and libraries also have many of these titles available. Some of the books are out of print. However, all of them can be purchased (used copies) through online book vendors at a fraction of the original price. An asterisk denotes selections that may be interesting to teenagers as well as to adults.

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What is the life of a wolf or moose like, from their perspective? How do moose live throughout the course of each season? What are the primary needs and concerns of a wolf?
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An accessible, but slightly more technical, account of the ecology and life history of wolves - patterns of mortality and reproduction, social lives, dietary habits, and more.
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Ecological knowledge depends on carefully collected data and observations. Learn about the field methods used to study the wolves and moose of Isle Royale - moose necropsies, observing wolves from light aircraft, estimating moose abundance, and more.
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How and why do populations of wolves and moose fluctuate over time? The most important events in the history of wolves and moose on Isle Royale have been entirely unpredicted - introduced diseases, severe winters, outbreaks of parasitic ticks, genetic rescues fromimmigrant wolves. These fluctuations and their causes lead to someimportant insights aboutnature in general.
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Islands are special places, and some ecological insights can only be had by understanding the biogeography of a place. Learn how island biogeography has been so important for understanding wolves and moose on Isle Royale.
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Learn about how much of our knowledge about predation is rooted in ecological theory and concepts like kill rate, predation rate, functional response, numerical response, and more. Learn what the wolves and moose of Isle Royale teach us about these theories of predation.
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What would it mean to say, wolves are an important top-down, destabilizing force on moose population dynamics? And are they?How do Isle Royale wolves compare with wolves in Yellowstone and Banff National Parks?
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Life history theory aims to explain every aspect of an individual organism. Why are moose as large as they are and no larger? Why do males grow larger and die sooner than females? Learn about the answers to these questions and more.
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Senescence is the decline in body function as an organism ages. Why do organisms senescence? Does it serve any purpose? Arthritis is a particular manifestation of senescence. Why do moose get arthritis as they age? Also, learn how senescence can have an important impact on the population dynamics of moose and wolves.
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A new study from North Carolina State University suggests that people have more tolerance for wolves after seeing positive videos about them, which could make YouTube an important wolf conservation tool.

"A lot of wildlife species we care about only need tolerance to persist in a landscape," Peterson added. "They're not domestic animals that need a lot of help from us. They just need us not to kill them or destroy their habitat."

In the study, researchers evaluated how a group of 273 people rated their tolerance for wolves before and after watching either a playlist of five different negative videos, a playlist of five different positive videos, or a neutral video.

To measure their tolerance, researchers asked questions in three categories: they asked participants about their overall attitudes toward wolves, such as whether they thought wolves were "good" or "bad;" their level of acceptance of wolves in their state and near populated areas; and their intended behaviors, or whether they would be likely to act for or against wolves or their conservation.

Survey participants had positive attitudes, acceptance and behavior intentions about wolves prior to receiving any treatment, but researchers saw that positive videos could still increase attitudes, acceptance and participants' willingness to act. They also saw those changes regardless of whether the viewer identified as conservative or liberal.

"Everybody is on social media these days, including state wildlife agencies, federal agencies, nonprofits, and everybody is putting content out there," said the study's lead author Will Casola, a Ph.D. student at NC State. "This study shows that this material actually has the potential to influence people, and they're not just putting time and resources into something that goes in one ear and out the other."

However, people who identified as liberal were more likely than conservatives to show positive changes in favor of wolves in measures of attitudes, acceptance and intended behaviors regardless of the videos they watched.

"We didn't see anything that would suggest people reacted differently to each video treatment depending on their political affiliation," Casola said. "Instead, we saw that no matter which videos they watched, liberals were more likely to exhibit positive changes."

The largest changes in tolerance were linked to older age. People above the age of 40, regardless of political background, were more likely to have larger changes in their attitudes for or against wolves.

Researchers saw improvements in respondents' willingness to act for wolf conservation overall, but except for signing petitions to support wolf re-introduction, respondents showed reluctance to take other specific actions to aid wolf conservation.

"People in general said they weren't likely to participate in many of these behaviors, but they were also less likely to participate in behaviors that were directly opposed to wolf recovery and conservation," Casola said.

Researchers focused on wolves since they can be controversial. While researchers said wolves are essential for maintaining a diversity of species in a landscape and improving the health of populations they prey on, they can also compete with people for space and resources, and can pose a risk for livestock.

But he wasn't sure, so in early October he posted the videos and photos on the Colorado Elk Hunters Facebook group page. Many commenters agreed the black animals were wolves, while others weren't so sure.

But Chirichetti's hunch proved true and rare. After talking and sharing his video with a biologist at Colorado Parks and Wildlife, it was confirmed that the elk hunter and traveling nurse working in Greeley recorded Colorado's first wolves born in the state in 80 years.

"At first it was exhilaration to see them because I've never seen a wolf that close and especially because they aren't really around here much,'' said Chirichetti, who estimated he was within 40 yards of the wolves. "It was a pretty cool experience, and then it hit me they were running right where I was about to hunt.''