A new study documents the complex interactions between cougars and gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park and finds their “enemies without benefits” relationship is driven by competition: wolves ...
A new study shows that interactions between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park are driven by wolves stealing prey killed by cougars and that shifts in cougar diets to smaller prey help ...
Large carnivores are both clashing and coexisting in the western United States. Although wolves dominate cougars and steal their prey, cougars' shift from elk- to deer-heavy diets, paired with a ...
WDFW biologists Ben Maletzke, left, and Trent Roussin do a health check on a wolf after collaring it prior to releasing it. (Photo courtesy of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife) The gray wolf ...