6 Citations
Wolves choose ambushing locations to counter and capitalize on the sensory abilities of their prey
- Environmental Science
- 2021
The work describes in detail the ambush strategies wolves use to hunt beavers and continues to overturn the traditional notion that wolves rely solely on cursorial hunting strategies, demonstrating that ambush predators can anticipate the movements and behavior of their prey due to a fundamental understanding of their targets’ sensory abilities.
Cross‐continental comparison of parasite communities in a wide‐ranging carnivore suggests associations with prey diversity and host density
- Environmental ScienceEcology and evolution
- 2021
The result that fecal prevalence of parasites was lower in wolves with more diverse diets could provide insight into the mechanisms by which biodiversity may regulate disease, as well as regulate the effects of parasitism on prey populations.
Indirect Effect of African Swine Fever on the Diet Composition of the Gray Wolf Canis lupus—A Case Study in Belarus
- Environmental ScienceAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI
- 2021
Only intensive hunting of wolves by humans can explain the resulting dietary fluctuations between elk and beaver, as well as the fact that wolves did not turn to other food sources.
Trumpeter Swan Killed by Gray Wolf in Minnesota
- Environmental ScienceNortheastern Naturalist
- 2019
Abstract Canis lupus (Gray Wolf) have been suspected as natural predators of Cygnus buccinator (Trumpeter Swan), but detailed descriptions of such predation events are lacking from the peer-reviewed…
Outsized effect of predation: Wolves alter wetland creation and recolonization by killing ecosystem engineers
- Environmental ScienceScience Advances
- 2020
This study demonstrates how predators have an outsized effect on ecosystems when they kill ecosystem engineers by killing dispersing beavers.
Nature of the beast? Complex drivers of prey choice, competition and resilience in Pleistocene wolves (Canis lupus L., 1754)
- Environmental ScienceQuaternary Science Reviews
- 2021
References
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Seasonal foraging strategies of Alaskan gray wolves (Canis lupus) in a salmon subsidized ecosystem
- Environmental Science
- 2017
The authors' results demonstrate substantial variability in the use of salmon over time in gray wolf diets in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in southwestern Alaska, with one group of wolves consistently consumed salmon in summer and switched to terrestrial prey in winter.
Exploitation of marine resources by wolves in southwestern Alaska
- Environmental ScienceJournal of Mammalogy
- 2016
Predation by large carnivores is a dominant factor shaping wildlife communities and an understanding of local foraging strategies of predators is central to the management of wildlife populations.…
Weekly Summer Diet of Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) in Northeastern Minnesota
- Environmental ScienceThe American Midland Naturalist
- 2018
This work is the first to examine wolf diet via scat analysis at weekly intervals, which enabled it to provide a detailed description of diet plasticity of this wolf pack, as well as the rapidity with which wolves can respond to new available food sources.
Foraging Behaviours and Diets of Wolves in the Queen Maud Gulf Bird Sanctuary, Nunavut, Canada
- Environmental Science
- 2009
Predation patterns often reflect the abundance and distribution of prey although factors such as vulnerability and ease of prey capture also affect these patterns. Wolves ( Canis lupus ) rely…
Food Habits of Wolves in Relation to Livestock Depredations in Northwestern Minnesota
- Environmental Science
- 2005
A 3-y study examining the food habits of wolves in an agricultural area of northwestern Minnesota and their relation to depredation records of livestock losses in the same area found that wolves in the area preyed mostly on native prey species.
Food habits of the world's grey wolves
- Environmental Science
- 2016
No evidence is found that grey wolf dietary diversity varies globally, although the results from southern Europe suggest that grey wolves may switch their diets away from domestic species if more wild ungulates are available, and the diversity of prey consumed by grey wolves shows that the species is capable of surviving dramatic anthropogenic upheaval.
Where and How Wolves (Canis lupus) Kill Beavers (Castor canadensis)
- Environmental SciencePloS one
- 2016
By identifying kill sites and inferring hunting behavior, this work has provided the most complete description available of how and where wolves hunt and kill beavers in boreal ecosystems.
Problems with studying wolf predation on small prey in summer via global positioning system collars
- Environmental ScienceEuropean Journal of Wildlife Research
- 2010
It is found that a male and female wolf with global positioning system (GPS) collars programmed to acquire locations every 10 min in the Superior National Forest of Minnesota missed finding many prey items and discusses the problems associated with trying to conduct such a study.
Diet and prey selection of wolves ( Canis lupus ) recolonising Western and Central Poland
- Environmental Science
- 2011
Gray Wolf ( Canis lupus ) dyad monthly association rates by demographic group.
- Environmental Science
- 2015
Preliminary data from GPS-collared wolves (Canis lupus) in the Superior National Forest of northeastern Minnesota indicated wolves had low association rates with packmates during summer. However,…