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Mission wolf rescue : all about wolves and how to save them
Introduces the behavior and characteristics of wolves and discusses why it is important that they be saved.
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Wolves
Wolves are some of the world's most charismatic and controversial animals, capturing the imaginations of their friends and foes alike. Highly intelligent and adaptable, they hunt and play together in close-knit packs, sometimes roaming over hundreds of square miles in search of food. Once teetering on the brink of extinction across much of the United States and Europe, wolves have made a tremendous comeback in recent years, thanks to legal protection, changing human attitudes, and efforts to reintroduce them to suitable habitats in North America.
As wolf populations have rebounded, scientific studies of them have also flourished. But there hasn't been a systematic, comprehensive overview of wolf biology since 1970. In Wolves, many of the world's leading wolf experts provide state-of-the-art coverage of just about everything you could want to know about these fascinating creatures. Individual chapters cover wolf social ecology, behavior, communication, feeding habits and hunting techniques, population dynamics, physiology and pathology, molecular genetics, evolution and taxonomy, interactions with nonhuman animals such as bears and coyotes, reintroduction, interactions with humans, and conservation and recovery efforts. The book discusses both gray and red wolves in detail and includes information about wolves around the world, from the United States and Canada to Italy, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Israel, India, and Mongolia. Wolves is also extensively illustrated with black and white photos, line drawings, maps, and fifty color plates.
Unrivalled in scope and comprehensiveness, Wolves will become the definitive resource on these extraordinary animals for scientists and amateurs alike.
\"An excellent compilation of current knowledge, with contributions from all the main players in wolf research. . . . It is designed for a wide readership, and certainly the language and style will appeal to both scientists and lucophiles alike. . . . This is an excellent summary of current knowledge and will remain the standard reference work for a long time to come.\"—Stephen Harris, New Scientist
\"This is the place to find almost any fact you want about wolves.\"—Stephen Mills, BBC Wildlife Magazine
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Lobos. Mitos y leyendas. El lobo en la actualidad
¡El lobo! Desde los tiempos más remotos, siempre ha acompañado al hombre. Sólo el hecho de oír su nombre produce una mezcla de escalofrío y fascinación. Gran desconocido y tremendamente misterioso, este inteligente animal, al que a veces se puede escuchar en la noche profunda pero que raramente se deja ver, se ha considerado peligroso por el simple hecho de ser un depredador. Siempre ha causado temor, pero este miedo, afortunadamente, ahora comienza a desaparecer. Aunque ha estado al borde de la extinción, en los últimos años se ha logrado una recuperación que avanza día a día, si bien sigue despertando polémica, sobre todo entre los pastores. El parque de Gévaudan, en Francia, posee una reserva de lobos única en su género. En este maravilloso marco de paisajes escarpados donde descansan los profundos valles de Lot y Tarn, con bosques de hayas y de pinos, mesetas calcáreas y llanos áridos, Gérard Lecomte y Bernard Dumort, provistos de su cámara de fotos y una buena dosis de paciencia, se han adentrado a descubrir este extraordinario animal. Con esta obra, la primera que se ha realizado íntegramente en el parque, han querido sensibilizar al público mostrándole al lobo en todas sus facetas, en su hábitat natural; y mediante sus maravillosos textos y sus excepcionales fotografías, han logrado componer un verdadero himno al Canis lupus.
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Ecology and Conservation of the Maned Wolf
Wolves are controversial figures worldwide and much effort has focused on how to conserve them while addressing public concerns. With its solitary habits and fruit-eating diet, the endangered maned wolf roams the South American grasslands and swamps, playing a vital part in maintaining biodiversity hotspots. Compared to the grey wolf,
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Saving the gray wolf
In this book, early fluent readers will learn how the gray wolf came back from the brink of extinction.
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Habitat suitability and movement corridors of grey wolf (Canis lupus) in Northern Pakistan
Habitat suitability models are useful to understand species distribution and to guide management and conservation strategies. The grey wolf (Canis lupus) has been extirpated from most of its historic range in Pakistan primarily due to its impact on livestock and livelihoods. We used non-invasive survey data from camera traps and genetic sampling to develop a habitat suitability model for C. lupus in northern Pakistan and to explore the extent of connectivity among populations. We detected suitable habitat of grey wolf using a maximum entropy approach (Maxent ver. 3.4.0) and identified suitable movement corridors using the Circuitscape 4.0 tool. Our model showed high levels of predictive performances, as seen from the values of area under curve (0.971±0.002) and true skill statistics (0.886±0.021). The main predictors for habitat suitability for C. lupus were distances to road, mean temperature of the wettest quarter and distance to river. The model predicted ca. 23,129 km2 of suitable areas for wolf in Pakistan, with much of suitable habitat in remote and inaccessible areas that appeared to be well connected through vulnerable movement corridors. These movement corridors suggest that potentially the wolf range can expand in Pakistan's Northern Areas. However, managing protected areas with stringent restrictions is challenging in northern Pakistan, in part due to heavy dependence of people on natural resources. The habitat suitability map provided by this study can inform future management strategies by helping authorities to identify key conservation areas.
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Wolf
Feared and revered, the wolf has been admired as a powerful hunter and symbol of the wild and reviled for its danger to humans and livestock. Garry Marvin reveals in Wolf how the ways in which wolves are imagined has had far-reaching implications for how actual wolves are treated by humans.
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Museomics and morphological analyses of historical and contemporary peninsular Italian wolf (Canis lupus italicus) samples
After centuries of decline and protracted bottlenecks, the peninsular Italian wolf population has naturally recovered. However, an exhaustive comprehension of the effects of such a conservation success is still limited by the reduced availability of historical data. Therefore, in this study, we morphologically and genetically analyzed historical and contemporary wolf samples, also exploiting the optimization of an innovative bone DNA extraction method, to describe the morphological variability of the subspecies and its genetic diversity during the last 30 years. We obtained high amplification and genotyping success rates for tissue, blood and also petrous bone DNA samples. Multivariate, clustering and variability analyses confirmed that the Apennine wolf population is genetically and morphologically well-distinguishable from both European wolves and dogs, with no natural immigration from other populations, while its genetic variability has remained low across the last three decades, without significant changes between historical and contemporary specimens. This study highlights the scientific value of well-maintained museum collections, demonstrates that petrous bones represent reliable DNA sources, and emphasizes the need to genetically long-term monitor the dynamics of peculiar wolf populations to ensure appropriate conservation management actions.
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