Canis Minor

Hungry and tired you wonder through the woods with no direction. You have no idea where you are. The faint smell of possible food is nipping at your nose, and you are frantically searching for scraps to feed your family. A small amount of any meat will ward off starvation. Suddenly, in the distance you see a glimmer of hope, a deer is standing less than 100 yards in front of you. Now is your chance, to eat, to live. Running as fast as you can towards your pray you have hope that this deer doesn’t

Protect the Gray Wolves Long before the settlers started to make the United States their home, “American Indians lived long beside the Gray Wolf before settlers started to come here.” (Rowe, Mark) The wolf is native to the North American continent and has been inhabiting its land for centuries. It is a canid species, or member of the canine family and is a cunning, smart, fast, and sly animal. Gray wolves range in color from black, brown, gray, and white and also look like a grown German Shepherd

The Reintroduction of the Gray Wolf to Yellowstone Gauss’ Law states that no two organisms can occupy the same ecological niche without excluding the other, but what happens when man gets involved with nature and tries to introduce a species where it doesn’t belong which in turn provides a second organism to fill the same niche as the first? The results of human intervention have often been disastrous for the organism that we’re supposedly helping. Humans often times do not understand the

Wolves are a marvelous creature, but should the be protected by the government? The answer is yess. Wolves need to be protected by the government. As a population they have finally come back. Having wolves in the wild benefits the people and the ecosystem. In 2010 they cost farmers over $3.5 million in lost cattle to wolves but so much more to other creatures. Wolves have successfully re-established a population in the rocky mountains. According to source #6 the wolf population in the northern rocky

Justin’s Changing the world essay on the domestication of wolves Subject/Topic of Essay: Introduction Paragraph Engaging Beginning Sentence: how long has dog really been man’s best friend I will be telling you more about how the domestication of wolves was an important point in history(Important Idea #1. This will be explained in Paragraph 2), what effects the domestication of wolves had on ancient and modern humans(Important Idea #2. This will be explained in Paragraph 3), and how it changed

Another challenge to the long-term survival of the NRM gray wolf is its persistent widespread public persecution. Many public landowners, namely ranchers, cite the gray wolf as being the primary cause for livestock population declines. According to the USFWS, throughout a period between 1995 and 2008, gray wolves were directly involved with the deaths of 3242 livestock (cattle and sheep) animals in the northern Rocky Mountain states. During the thirteen year span, there were 988 confirmed wolf kills

CANINES WHAT: The reintroduction of wolves in 1995 has significantly decreased the coyote and fox populations, although those who remain often scavenge from wolf kills. Yellowstone's coyotes are among the largest coyotes in the United States; adults average about 14 kg and some can weigh up to 20 kg. These intelligent canines primarily eat voles, mice, rabbits, other small animals. They will commonly feed on carrion and only when in packs, hunt young elk calves in the spring. In the Lamar Valley

Canadienne Cattle Canadienne Cattle are dairy cattle that originated in Canada and is starting to become more popular in the United States. Canadienne cattle were the main cattle breed up until 1850. The breed developed it’s own official herd book in 1886 when they were almost extinct. The population of the Canadienne was nearly 300,000 head before the book was developed. Today, the breed is not as common, but it still thrives (The Canadienne Cow, 2009). The Canadienne is a breed that certainly

coyotes. Currently, eastern wolves are mainly identified as a subspecies of Grey wolves or as a hybrid, resulting from interbreeding between grey wolves and coyotes. Following the genotypic cluster species concept, this paper identifies eastern wolves (Canis Lycaon) as a distinct species because they show little similarities in genomic data with the gray wolves and coyotes and carry Y-chromosome haplotypes that are unique to eastern wolves only. provides evidence that eastern wolf is a separate species

Grey wolf Habitats: They are normally found in North America.Today, their range has shifted to Canada, Alaska, the Great Lakes, northern Rockies, Pacific Northwest and Yellowstone park. Diet: Gray wolves will eat large prey such as moose, goats, sheep and deer. Normally, the pack of wolves will find the weakest or sickest animal in a herd, circle it, and kill it together. Wolves are known to attack and slay domestic animals as well as animals they find in the wild.Wolves are ferocious eaters. They