One summer morning a rack of antlers was visible in the distant meadow where the night before a pack of 14 wolves had taken down a bull elk. |
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In Medieval Europe, wolves acquired a pungent reputation for trickery and ferocity. |
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It was the voices of a thousand songbirds, of waves lapping against the shore, and of a pack of wolves, mourning the loss of their leader. |
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Among cooperative breeders of certain other species, such as wolves and jackals, pups born in the same litter can be sired by different fathers. |
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There are 36 species of Canidae, including dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals and foxes. |
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If wolves come into contact with domestic dogs, they pick up diseases and may cross-breed. |
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Readers may have heard about a pack of wolves or a litter of puppies, but do they know which animals make up a gaggle or a murder? |
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The scene of Yuri writing his poems in an ice-encrusted dacha with wolves and winds howling outside seems to sum up this land. |
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Having been flung to the wolves by the Ibrox set, he is quite ready to continue his resurrection at Molineux this Easter Monday. |
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Never did a sheep wander away, never a one was attacked by wolves, never a one lost in foul weather. |
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Central to this proposition is the recovery of existing top predators such as grizzlies, cougars, and wolves. |
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Something in my memories hints that there were rumors that the Hellhound was mixing his purebreds with wolves or coyotes. |
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You wouldn't see them at first, but sabertooth tigers, gigantic short-faced bears, and dire wolves prowl the land, stalking the grazers. |
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There were wolves about in those days, as well as grizzlies in Montana and Alberta. |
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He went into the apartment block and I turned around and saw wolves growling at me. |
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Angling closer and slowing to a walk, he is shocked to see a trio of dire wolves foraging in the snow. |
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The figures at the top left and bottom right are dire wolves, extinct relatives of wolves and dogs. |
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In the Pleistocene, gray wolves shared the region with C. dirus, the dire wolf. |
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It is likely that the bone-modifying behaviors of dire wolves were intermediate between those of extant wolves and spotted hyenas. |
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Domesticated dogs arose from wolves that somehow became accustomed to living among people. |
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No one knows just how many wolves were killed by government scientists or by Inuit hunters who prized wolf pelts for parka trim. |
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He was inclined to think that there were more than four wolves and that the man and his dogs were in a tight corner. |
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The Netherlands may be neat, but it doesn't have our happy mess of wolves and craggy mountains, and it never will. |
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Russians still regard it as a place inhabited by criminals, bears and wolves. |
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Excavations show that previous residents from the Ice Age included wolves, bison, rhinos, hyenas and bears. |
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The following day, in her rapidly diminishing window of hypnosis, she still hears water but also hears wolves and cattle. |
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Smaller prey such as beavers, rabbits, and other small mammals are usually hunted by lone wolves, and they are a substantial part of their diet. |
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On the relatively species-rich mainland, wolves hunt deer, but also moose, mountain goats, and smaller mammals. |
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The swordbilled hummingbird and the condor are found here, as well as wolves, pumas, deer. |
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An increased number of game animals, from red deer to wild swine, and trophy animals, such a wolves and bears, have been killed. |
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What I assumed were owls hooting through the trees turned out to be wolves. |
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The howls of the wolves and the hoots of owls were the only things that they heard. |
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Female gray wolves choose their mates and often form a life-long pair bond. |
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The rider muttered something, looking down at the horse, still not seeing the wolves, and urged his charge forward. |
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Sometimes falling prey, on land, to wolves and coyotes, the otter's principal enemies are humans. |
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Samoyeds were traditionally used to herd reindeer and guard against wolves and bears. |
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This includes both carnivores such as wolves, which eat other animals, and herbivores such as cows, which eat plants. |
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The rolling hills and forests are a haven for desert wolves, leopards, striped hyena, wild sheep, the rare Sindh ibex and the imperial eagle. |
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While Tanek was limping so heavily it was as if Valeska was watching a badger, ward the wolves away by its heavy-footed trot. |
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Bears were gone from East Texas, as were wild turkeys, ivory-billed woodpeckers, jaguars, Carolina parakeets and red wolves. |
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When there is a loss of habitat, the woodland caribou becomes a prime target for wolves that gorge on their plentiful prey. |
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The journey takes you to Denali, travelling deep into the natural habitat of bears, moose, caribou and wolves. |
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The wolves have been adapted so not only can they survive the harsh climate, but they can also eat both animals and vegetables. |
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The owls were picked from the birds of prey, wolves from canines, dolphins from sea mammals. |
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There were big bad wolves at the door back then and the rituals and ceremonies we observed were an important part of our defences against them. |
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Sentimentality always cloaks brutality, as Jung once wisely observed, and wolves in sheep's clothing are always ready for the big chance. |
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Spend a week in the breathtaking Lamar Valley studying and observing wolves, grizzly bears, black bears, moose and other wildlife. |
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This morning, I trudged through the knee-high drifts of wolves to bring you a picture which sums up the stark terror facing this country. |
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When you hear a pack of wolves calling, you don't pay attention to anything else. |
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Howls that did not belong to wolves filled the air and made Lee's hair stand on end. |
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She peeped through the holes in the rock at the hundreds of wolves sitting and slouching or lying against the trees, looking at the rocks. |
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White-tailed deer and brush wolves are present even today, but, like many other mammals, are difficult to detect. |
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I also recall O.L. Butcher writing about brush wolves in the Adirondacks years before I was born. |
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Beavers, black bears, brown bears, harbor seals, moose, sea lions, sea otters, and wolves are among the local mammals. |
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The angry sorcerers and sorceresses attacked the remaining wolves at once, until all of them were gone for good. |
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Isolated and wild, the North Fork Valley houses moose and wolves along with pine marten, snowshoe hare and mountain lion. |
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A pack of wolves, fifty at least, were coming toward her, hackles raised, teeth bared, snarling. |
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The wolves of the group suddenly rushed towards the direction of the sound, baring their teeth and snarling. |
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Many of the bounty hunters use snare traps, which kill an irresponsible number of grizzly bears, elk, and moose, as well as wolves. |
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The fjords around Ammassalik Island are brimming with narwhals, seals, ermine, arctic wolves and dozens of other cold-comfort creatures. |
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Moose and caribou share the region's tundra and boreal forests with arctic foxes, wolves, lynx, and black bears. |
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With his hunting experience, he introduced trapping lures for mink, muskrats, fox, beaver, bobcats, coyotes and wolves. |
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Gray wolves have a dense underfur layer, providing them with excellent insulation against cold conditions. |
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Visitors will especially enjoy Eagle Canyon, with its streams, mountain lions, bobcats, Mexican wolves, and golden eagles. |
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This was true despite the high ratio of prey available to wolves and the large number of unculled prey. |
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As they continue on the road, the sky is filled with carrion birds and wolves feed on the bodies of unburied orcs. |
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While we allow wolves and foxes to be ululant, the head posture is an SCA invention. |
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They are part of a village that is being plagued by wild and bloodthirsty wolves. |
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Its forest covers an area half the size of Wales and supports a healthy population of wolves, moose and bears. |
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You're likely to see grizzly bears, moose, and elk, and hear wolves howling at night. |
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Should he lose, it will be like a pack of wolves that suddenly turns on itself. |
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Images from night-vision video cameras identified bears, foxes, turkey vultures, wolves, bald eagles, and others at the plots. |
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The wolves were culled in order to allow moose populations in those areas to increase for hunting purposes. |
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The model's poses, at first glance sexually provocative, are actually those used by wolves. |
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Most of the wolves trapped by biologists in Montana test positive for exposure to parvo, she said, but few succumb. |
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There are many wolves in sheepskin whose mission is to hoodwink the people at every turn with sugar-coated good-for-nothing promises. |
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The sheepdogs that protect the sheeple from the wolves out there, cannot be gentle vegetarians. |
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The dogs were sympathetic to this proposal, so the wolves, making their way inside the sheepfold, tore the dogs to pieces. |
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The hair of coastal wolves also appears to be coarser and better at shedding water, perhaps to cope with the heavy rainfall on the west coast. |
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Before European settlers arrived, gray wolves once roamed all over North America, their population in the millions. |
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I stepped into a pair of slippers that were supposed to look like wolves, but had sort of lost any shape about a year ago. |
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No, mightiness comes later after many battles with enemy units, big spiders, polar bears, wolves, giants, and gangs of thugs. |
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Over the course of the day, they encounter a family of loons, an eagle, and a pack of timber wolves. |
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The most ferocious biters among mammals aren't lions, tigers, or wolves, but meat-eating marsupials, a new study says. |
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For example, wolves were bred into dogs, and wild grasses were bred into wheat, rye, oats and barley. |
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Most of the wolves were nodding to each other and conversing in wolf speech, which consisted mostly of growls, grunts, barks and howls. |
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Towns urged residents to purchase hounds and mastiffs and train them to hunt wolves. |
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It was the wail of a thousand banshees, mixed with the mournful cries of wolves. |
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Birmogh Lasht marks the fringes of Chitral Gol National Park, home to markhor, bears, wolves and a handful of elusive snow leopards. |
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To Mesa's disappointment, the wolves all belonged to the River Pack, who were located much more south of his terra. |
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Low growls of warning were echoing from the throats of the wolves while the raptors mantled their wings and hissed in agitation. |
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Because of their debilitated condition, mangy wolves may also be more likely to attack easy prey such as domestic sheep. |
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In Brazil's Pantanal, South America's largest wetlands, you'll stalk giant anteaters, armadillos, maned wolves, and jaguars. |
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Carcasses left by wolves supply food for scavengers such as ravens, eagles, magpies, and wolverines. |
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Unlike the wolves the coyotes preferred to scavenge the dead carcasses left behind by others. |
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He faces down a bear with bow-and-arrow, scatters wolves with a slingshot, and shoots rabbits for dinner. |
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The wolves proved very clever and I was only able to see a few green shapes in a night scope and get some detailed pictures of scat and prints. |
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She's also hoping to prevent the establishment of hunting seasons on mourning doves, sandhill cranes, and wolves. |
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The same was true with the deer population in areas where wolves were eradicated. |
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This year leaflets about the habits of bears, wolves and lynxes were given to all the schools in mountain villages. |
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Hours later, the howling of wolves, augmented by the valley and echoing off the steep, timbered slopes, woke me from a dreamless sleep. |
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Local police and hunters are working day and night to track the surviving wolves down. |
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Similarly, the petroleum reserve is home to a spate of declining species, including polar bears, Arctic wolves and foxes, and musk ox. |
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She turned around only to see a whole pack of wolves standing there, saliva dripping from their open mouths. |
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As for the dub, it just sounded odd after seeing the original, the wolves didn't sound right for a start. |
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For instance, by choosing to hunt at a different place or time, coyotes avoid wolves, cheetahs avoid lions, and leopards avoid tigers. |
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The neoconservatives are collectivist wolves in the sheep's clothing of freedom. |
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The Dutchers spent six years living in yurts on the compound, recording whatever the wolves were doing. |
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At least a dozen wolves, including the pack's alpha male, rushed out and surrounded her. |
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When snow is deep and moose ''yard'' together, they are more accessible in greater numbers to wolves. |
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In 1427, James I of Scotland passed an Act requiring all lairds to seek out and destroy wolves. |
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Twenty wolves were reintroduced in central Idaho, and the reintroduction was spectacularly successful. |
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Can Nick keep the wolves at bay while also remaining a good role model to his increasingly impressionable son? |
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We were told the reason Komondors are so protective is because they are closely related to wolves. |
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You'll encounter giant rats, spiders, kobolds, wolves, trolls, and the rest of the usual suspects. |
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Gray wolves can be distinguished from red wolves by their larger size, broader snout, and shorter ears. |
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Mating between eastern Canadian wolves, red wolves, and coyotes is possible, he said, because they share a common ancestor. |
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Other predators are red foxes, coyotes, wolves, bear, mountain lions, lynx, bobcats, eagles, and great horned owls. |
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I love Mother and everything, but what was she thinking, throwing you to the wolves like this? |
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I mean, what's stopping them from throwing us to the wolves once they've got us? |
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So my theory is that someone higher than Sanchez is throwing him to the wolves. |
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Basically, throwing Rummy to the wolves may slow the haemorrhage, but it may not stop it. |
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Only about 500 Ethiopian wolves remain in the wild, and the species has been ravaged by rabies epidemics at least twice in the recent past. |
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Wild dogs, especially the big wild dogs, are famously family oriented, and wolves are no exception. |
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The extent of livestock loss to wolves is often overstated, wolves typically prefer their wild prey. |
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Their proposal would allow wolves that attack hunting dogs or livestock outside of fenced areas to be shot. |
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Dogs can be vaccinated against the virus, but it is not feasible to trap and vaccinate all the wild wolves in Yellowstone, park officials say. |
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The wolves that remained wild find themselves all but exterminated in the lower forty-eight states. |
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Everything from saber-toothed carnivores and wolves to flying squirrels and anteaters were produced independently. |
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We saw predatory birds hunting, which is not uncommon as Transylvania also hosts wild boars and wolves. |
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Researchers say that wolves in the coastal region are much more genetically variable than wolves elsewhere in North America. |
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Returning west, we take the road through middle Skane, where dense pine forests hide wild boar and even wolves. |
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In medieval times the area was a hunting forest, roamed by deer, wild bear and wolves. |
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Among wild dogs and wolves, the cooperative hunting pack includes both males and females, and they provision both pups and a nursing mother. |
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Alaskans voted in 2000 to stop private citizens from using aircraft to track and kill wolves for state predator-control programs. |
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Isle Royale is an island wilderness supporting packs of wolves and herds of moose and is home to many rare plant species. |
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He tracked roe deer and wild boar, and found wolves and lynx doing the same. |
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We're on the edge of a national park and the landscape and wildlife is spectacular, including wild boar, deer and even wolves. |
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One candidate knows that if Giblets's rivals are elected president he could transform into a pack of ravenous wolves and eat your children. |
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Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. |
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Then, we have much more public things that happen, like the aerial shooting of wolves in Alaska. |
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I heard the pounding feet and paws of other wolves and werewolves coming towards the tree. |
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Entire packs of grey wolves have also been plucked from the Canadian outback and released in Yellowstone Park. |
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He knew that they were the same pack of wolves he had seen on the hunting trip. |
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Grey wolves live in a packs of up to twenty animals that are usually related to each other. |
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Unlike pure dingoes, which, like wolves, live in packs ruled by an alpha male and female, wild packs of crossbreeds are uncontrolled. |
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At times she fell asleep in her seat and dreamed of being surrounded by packs of wild wolves. |
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Remember wolves hunt in packs but the wolf will take care of the sick, feed the old first, they do all of that. |
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The hares' main predators are gyr falcons, Arctic foxes and Arctic wolves. |
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With each gasp for breath, the wolves became more and more tired. |
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The wolves gather again the following day, a few suspecting the hero is purblind to all but his own ambitions, caught up as he is in the hysteria of his last days. |
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All I needed was a grubstake to keep the wolves from the door. |
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There is a lot of controversy over whether or not wolves should be released into the park. |
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I did once see a pack of wolves try to bring down a bison at decade or so ago. |
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Werner has also taken to living closely with his wolves, behaving as an alpha male to earn their acceptance and respect. |
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The state of Idaho paid a bounty hunter to kill wolves in the Salmon River country. |
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The rivers never have seen a dam, and the fish never have seen a hatchery, and the angler wading a remote gravel bar stands in the company of bears and eagles and wolves. |
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There are also caribou, wolves, walruses, polar bears and beluga whales. |
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At the few remaining watering holes, wolves lie in wait for wild camels. |
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Red foxes are solitary animals and do not form packs like wolves. |
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Over 150 wolves, from eight packs, now roam Yellowstone's forests and river valleys, attesting to a radical reversal of fortune for the maligned predator. |
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Moose, elks, black bears, wolves, pumas, groundhogs, squirrels, beavers, whisky jacks, sandhill cranes, ravens and bald eagles are seen frequently. |
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Unlike other wolves, the species hunts alone, with individuals leaving their groups in the late morning and early afternoon in search of giant mole rats and grass rats. |
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What's very annoying is that as soon as the meals are brought in the rest of the family become like a pack of ravening wolves and will promptly start begging for them. |
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I can understand people's concerns about animals such as wolves, but as anyone who has worked with them in the wild will tell you, they don't represent a threat to humans. |
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Participants allow the recolonization of the gray wolf on their private lands and will not use lethal controls on coyotes, wolves and other predators. |
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The ability to place young pups as well as older wolves in the wild will inject the population with new genes and increase the numbers of wild wolves. |
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Instead, rather intriguingly, it has become a grim battle of the superpowers, both engaged in a hard fight to keep the media wolves from their door. |
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Quickmatches allow you to set the parameters of your battles, including the number of bots, type of game, and other variants before throwing you to the wolves. |
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For it, I was later accused of purposely throwing her to the wolves. |
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Brown and black bears, wolves, wolverines and mountain goats roam the mountains, while millions of migratory birds rest and feed along mudflats and estuaries. |
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Roads fragment wildlife habitat, eliminating creatures that require big tracts of undeveloped land such as forest birds, elk, caribou, lynx, wolves, wolverines, and grizzlies. |
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He was referring to the lone wolves such as ISIS is now urging online to detonate pipe bombs in Times Square. |
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The Kwakiutl of the Pacific Northwest believed that their nation descended from four wolves that survived a great flood, before shedding their skins to become human. |
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The Leopolds have been the most stable pack in Yellowstone, run by an alpha male and an alpha female that were among the original wolves brought here from Canada. |
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How did wolves transform into today's greyhounds, pugs, and Yorkies? |
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I yowl at the moon again, and if wolves could cry, I would be crying. |
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The wolves now thriving in Yellowstone National Park, for example, are routinely caught with leghold traps so they can be outfitted with radio collars. |
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They tend to be lone wolves who suffer marginalisation, branded eccentrics, accused of being traitors in order to demean and degrade what they write and broadcast. |
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He had to find a rout of wolves and travel with them for a bit. |
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He prepared to ignite the sticks as the rout of wolves came near. |
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Primitive humans would have needed to avoid certain species of animals, as we do now, such as venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, tarantulas and wolves. |
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Last year, Rivers threw herself to the comedic wolves and allowed herself to be the honoree of a Comedy Central roast. |
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When the bison slaughter rose to its height, wolves and other scavengers thrived on the availability of carrion, and wolf numbers probably spiked briefly. |
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They considered deleterious human influence in the habitat of maned wolves to be more intense in the southeast than in the midwestern Brazilian states. |
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Adaptable and resourceful, individual maned wolves range through enormous territories where they live off everything from rodents and birds to venomous snakes and berries. |
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True wolves are strict carnivores but the maned wolf is omnivorous. |
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Possibly extinct in Uruguay, the remaining maned wolves live in Bolivia and Brazil, with a handful in Argentina and Paraguay, and just a single pair in Peru. |
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Eighty percent of captive and wild maned wolves suffer from a genetic disease, and in addition they are susceptible to the common diseases of domestic dogs. |
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At present it is not known how many maned wolves remain in the wild. |
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Bears shall maul the wicked, and the wolves shall consume them. |
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To explain this about-face in Japanese attitudes toward wolves, we need to return one last time to the issue of Japan's vision of modernity in the early Meiji years. |
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Dinerstein believes bears, wolves, bison, and elk are the way to go if the goal is to restore the grandeur of the Pleistocene to the Great Plains. |
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The five national and sixty six provincial parks contain a healthy population of bighorn sheep, mountain goats, elk, bears, wolves, bison and woodland caribou. |
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When the sunrise finally came and Abdullah was no where to be found the other Bedouins would assume that the wolves had taken him instead of a goat. |
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The problem was timorous shepherds who failed to protect the flock, and especially the lambs, fearing to confront the wolves admitted to the sheepfold. |
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Firstly their lack of success trapping wolves has meant that they have been unable to fit radio collars and so cannot accurately follow the animals' movements. |
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The theriodonts included both carnivores and herbivores, and various lineages correlated to late Cenozoic wolves, weasels, otters, rodents, and shrews. |
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Her early work gave way to more chilling visions that echoed fairy tale evils, sinister forests, cunning wolves, and grandmothers ready to eat you. |
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Black bears, grizzly bears, mountain lions, bobcats, and wolves have been effectively removed from most U.S. farming areas, leaving coyotes as the top livestock predators. |
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Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders. |
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A pack of wolves emerged snarling and snapping at their new found prey. |
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There were more wolves now, snapping at and pouncing upon the hawks. |
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Attack of the paparazzi Stephen Rodrick, The Rolling Stone On the hunt with the wolves of Hollywood. |
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My fur bristled as I could tell that wolves had surrounded the clearing. |
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Maybe you will hear the yips of some brush wolves running across the lake. |
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Since August, the team has been tracking brush wolves in the Burwash and Killarney area to study their predation on the reintroduced elk population. |
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Before the wolves can get him, however, he is rescued by a wise old shepherd and brought up as a helot, one of the aboriginal population the Spartans have enslaved. |
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Snow wolves were vicious, bloodthirsty wolves that roamed the forest. |
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Rats and wolves burrow from underneath and strike in packs from behind. |
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He acquired the wolves as cubs from zoos or animal parks and has reared them mostly by hand. |
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The vines were thick and heftily wooded, larger than any plant life a desert dweller could ever imagine, and more voracious than the most haggardly pack of wolves. |
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The wolves live in packs of up to 12 adults but hunt and forage alone, unlike gray wolves, their North American and European cousins, that hunt in packs. |
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He faced grizzly bears, had a stare-down with a pack of wolves, perpetually fought hunger and once went 50 straight days without seeing another person. |
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The game may have its origin in ancient times, when herds of cattle grazed in the steppes and mountains and were exposed to the threat of attack by wolves. |
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In the uniquely articulated natural environment you can watch seals, bears, carcajous, wolves and other beasts of prey, as well as reptiles, birds or monkeys. |
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The caribou had returned and the wolves were now released from the famine. |
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Western explorers construed the presence of wolves as an ominous portent. |
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A land that is home to walruses, seals, foxes, wolves, oxen, polar bears, and where six million birds fly in for summer, can hardly be called forbidden. |
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In the distance, he could hear wolves barking, even closer, owls hooting. |
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With chronometrical precision Switzerland does away with all wolves, and is charged with the killing of at least 25 wolf cubs, which amounts to a generalised licence to kill. |
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I could have mistaken all their offers as howls from wild wolves. |
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The idea is to keep the wolves at bay, so the radar unit is sending teams of engineers, radar maintainers and civil engineers across America to make adjustments. |
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Is there anything intrinsically different between the hunt as organised by people over those hours as you say, and the normal experience of deer being hunted by wolves? |
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During last year's aerial wolf hunt, hunters in Alaska killed 144 wolves. |
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There are also jackals, wolves, the ichneumon and, possibly, a polecat. |
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The third color phase occurs during the first pelage of young wolves. |
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He shows us the white puppies with woolly coats whose job it is to protect the sheep from wolves and explains how they live outside with only the strongest surviving. |
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Perhaps KB the wise old bird saw through the manipulation and the scheming of the pretenders, fakes, and exploiters, and was determined to keep the wolves away. |
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Although canine distemper is lethal in dogs, it has not been recorded to kill wolves, except in Canada and Alaska. |
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Friday accompanies him and, en route, they endure one last adventure together as they fight off famished wolves while crossing the Pyrenees. |
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With large prey, mature wolves usually avoid attacking frontally, instead focusing on the rear and sides of the animal. |
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The husky dog breed comes from Inuit breeding of dogs and wolves for transportation. |
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White pointed to species hybrids such as foxes, wolves, and jackals, which were separate groups that were still able to interbreed. |
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They scavenge on carcasses left by larger predators such as wolves and polar bears, and in times of scarcity even eat their feces. |
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Were they raised by wolves? What exactly are you expecting them to do at your reception, dance on the tables? |
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Mother wolves do not leave the den for the first few weeks, relying on the fathers to provide food for them and their young. |
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The user claims that there were cages for dire wolves on the huge set, but was unable to take pictures. |
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Wolfkin are humanoid wolves. They have long wolf faces and thick fur. They walk on the tips of their long feet and have thick ragged wolf tails. |
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Red wolves, Canadian otters and aardwolves turn out not to have lost their genetic sweet spot. |
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This suggests that the monument originally contained two addorsed wolves, one facing in each direction. |
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But the giant packs formed by dire wolves were organised to be able to kill some of these super-sized herbivores. |
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It is also known as monkshood due to the shape of its purple flowers, and wolfsbane, because it was once used to kill wolves. |
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It will explain how bone-cracking dogs, dire wolves and saber-toothed tigers hunted hoofed animals. |
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Wild wolves are sometimes kept as exotic pets and, in some rarer occasions, as working animals. |
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Shooting wolves from aircraft is highly effective, due to increased visibility and direct lines of fire, but is controversial. |
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Male gray wolves often mount each other when the highest ranking female in the pack comes into heat. |
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This method relies heavily on the wolf's fear of human scents, though it can lose its effectiveness when wolves become accustomed to the smell. |
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Unlike with predatory attacks, the victims of rabid wolves are not eaten, and the attacks generally only occur on a single day. |
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Rabid wolves usually act alone, travelling large distances and often biting large numbers of people and domestic animals. |
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Incidents of rabies in wolves are very rare in North America, though numerous in the eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and Central Asia. |
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In Tajikistan, wolves are their most serious enemies, having been observed to destroy cat burrows. |
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Also, wolves with pups experience greater food stresses during this period. |
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Such attacks typically occur only locally, and do not stop until the wolves involved are eliminated. |
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The victims are repeatedly bitten on the head and face, and are then dragged off and consumed, unless the wolves are driven off. |
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Saint Andrew is invoked to ward off wolves, who are thought to be able to eat any animal they want on this night, and to speak to humans. |
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Raptors used their big claws to slash their prey, Some raptors attacked in packs the way wolves hunt elk and moose. |
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Plus, a look at how Arctic foxes have adapted to catch auks in mid-flight and the hunting strategies of Arctic wolves. |
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The fear of wolves has been pervasive in many societies, though humans are not part of the wolf's natural prey. |
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Gray wolves also practice alloparental care, in which a wolf pair may adopt the pup or pups of another. |
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Wolf packs rarely adopt other wolves into their fold, and typically kill them. |
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Although the numbers of dogs killed each year are relatively low, it induces a fear of wolves entering villages and farmyards to take dogs. |
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In Croatia, wolves kill more dogs than sheep, and wolves in Russia appear to limit stray dog populations. |
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Pleistocene dire wolves, gray wolves, and the current red wolf recovery effort will be presented. |
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Kelly's team recommended culling hybrid species when possible, as has been done for the offspring of red wolves and coyotes in the United States. |
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Black specimens are more common in North America than in Eurasia, with about half the wolves in Yellowstone National Park being black. |
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Some nations help offset economic losses to wolves through compensation programmes or state insurance. |
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Tolstoy's War and Peace and Chekhov's Peasants both feature scenes in which wolves are hunted with hounds and borzois. |
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Older wolves generally have more white hairs in the tip of the tail, along the nose and on the forehead. |
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Tapeworms generally cause little harm in wolves, though this depends on the number and size of the parasites, and the sensitivity of the host. |
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Tapeworms are commonly found in wolves, as their primary hosts are ungulates, small mammals, and fish, which wolves feed upon. |
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One of the elements that came from the Roman and Thracian celebrations concerned wolves. |
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Among flukes, the most common in North American wolves is Alaria, which infects small rodents and amphibians that are eaten by wolves. |
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Ticks of the genus Ixodes can infect wolves with Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. |
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Lice, such as Trichodectes canis, may cause sickness in wolves, but rarely death. |
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In areas where wolves inhabit pastoral areas, the parasites can be spread to livestock. |
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Most of these parasites infect wolves without adverse effects, though the effects may become more serious in sick or malnourished specimens. |
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Wolves carry ectoparasites and endoparasites, with wolves in the former Soviet Union having been recorded to carry at least 50 species. |
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Although bovine tuberculosis is not considered a major threat to wolves, it has been recorded to have once killed two wolf pups in Canada. |
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Female wolves tend to have smoother furred limbs than males, and generally develop the smoothest overall coats as they age. |
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Animal life includes Arabian leopard, Arabian wolves, striped hyenas, mongooses, baboons, hares, sand cats, and jerboas. |
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Wolves may catch tularemia from lagomorph prey, though its effect on wolves is unknown. |
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Although lyme disease can debilitate individual wolves, it does not appear to have any significant effect on wolf populations. |
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The canine coronavirus has been recorded in Alaskan wolves, with infections being most prevalent in winter months. |
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Wolves eat the brown bears they kill, while brown bears seem to only eat young wolves. |
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Papillomatosis has been recorded only once in wolves, and likely doesn't cause serious illness or death, though it may alter feeding behaviors. |
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Wolves may catch infectious canine hepatitis from dogs, though there are no records of wolves dying from it. |
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Infected wolves do not show any fear of humans, with most documented wolf attacks on people being attributed to rabid animals. |
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He mopped up the sauce with the bread and scarfed it down like he had been raised by wolves. |
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She isolated new rickettsia species in ticks from wolves that was 98 per cent similar to all other rickettsia species on BLAST analysis. |
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Reintroduced Mexican wolves in Arizona and New Mexico are protected under the ESA and, as of late 2002, number 28 individuals in eight packs. |
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As of 2002, there are 250 wolves in 28 packs in Yellowstone, and 260 wolves in 25 packs in Idaho. |
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He's on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic where the 24-hour daylight and sound of howling wolves make it difficult to have a lie in. |
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He's on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic where the 24-hour daylight and the sound of howling wolves make it difficult to have a lie in. |
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Thousands of wolves were killed from the early 1950s to the early 1960s, mostly by poisoning. |
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All terrorists, including lone wolves are seeking attention and using social media for it. |
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Instinctively, we know there are many more lone wolves, thinking, planning, stalking, getting ready to strike us again. |
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He was sending the message to other lone wolves to commit acts of terrorism, to go out there and try it,'' Leyden said. |
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They include Finland's Salomo Nkkljrvi, who uses his dog Tafie to herd reindeer and protect them from wolves. |
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The north has a declining population of an estimated 400 wolves, while Xinjiang and Tibet hold about 10,000 and 2,000 respectively. |
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