Wolves are deeply social animals whose lives revolve around long-term family bonds within a pack. Because of this, scientists have closely studied how wolves behave when a pack member dies. While ...

In May 2025, the European Parliament changed the status of wolves in the EU from “strictly protected” to “protected,” which opened the way for its member states to allow hunting under certain ...

Wolves remain fearful of humans even in areas where they are protected, according to a study published on Thursday in the Current Biology journal. The study finds that the predators deliberately avoid ...

Wolves, with their powerful presence and keen hunting instincts, have long fascinated humans. Standing up to six feet tall and weighing between 66 to 180 pounds, the gray wolf is a formidable predator ...

This post was cowritten by Marc Bekoff and certified force-free dog trainer Mary Angilly. Conflict is an inevitable part of many social relationships, including those between humans and nonhuman ...

Wolves became dogs via cooperation and reciprocity rather than through competition with humans "I wrote this book to remind people that the wolves we often demonize and persecute through wildlife ...

Introduction: The beginnings -- 1. The spaniels of San Marcos : what is a dog and who cares? -- 2. Cooperation between species -- 3. Homo canis : why humans are different than all other primates -- 4.

In September 2017 a close friend was killed in Rhodope Prefecture in Norhern Greece. Her death was initially reported as being due to an attack by wolves with the local coroner reported as saying that ...