Another suburban wolf attack on a little girl (this time in Greece).

https://www.tovima.com/society/wolf-that-attacked-child-caught-was-injured-and-starving/

Also: https://www.tovima.com/society/woman-survives-wolf-attack-in-central-greece/

wolves are cool but hard to draw especially front part, or i just overthinking

This happened in Anna Paulowna, the Netherlands on September 5th. This part of the Netherlands has no wolves yet though. Also the tail looks a little weird. Is this a wolf or a large dog?

To the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Department of Agriculture:

I am writing as a concerned American who strongly supports continued protections for gray wolves and Mexican wolves.

I urge the Department of the Interior to ensure that any decision regarding the Endangered Species Act status of wolves is based on the best available science—not political pressure or the interests of any single industry.

Wolves are native wildlife and an important part of healthy ecosystems. Their recovery represents one of America's most significant conservation achievements, but recovery should not be confused with the conclusion that federal protections are no longer necessary. Wolf populations remain vulnerable in many parts of the country, and Mexican wolves in particular continue to face significant challenges.

I also urge the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture to prioritize coexistence and effective nonlethal methods for preventing livestock conflicts. Ranchers should receive meaningful support for protecting livestock, but protecting agricultural interests should not require widespread killing of native predators. Federal agencies should continue investing in proven conflict-prevention strategies, including improved husbandry practices, range riders, deterrents, carcass removal, and other nonlethal approaches.

The USDA itself recognizes that predators play important roles in ecosystems and that livestock conflicts can be addressed through integrated solutions. I encourage USDA to expand research and support for effective nonlethal conflict prevention rather than making lethal removal the default response.

Wildlife belongs to all Americans, including those of us who value wolves and want future generations to experience them in the wild. Please uphold the Endangered Species Act and ensure that decisions affecting wolves are guided by rigorous, transparent science and the long-term health of wolf populations and ecosystems.

I respectfully urge you to:

• Maintain federal protections for gray wolves and Mexican wolves unless rigorous scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that delisting meets the requirements of the Endangered Species Act.

• Reject efforts to weaken protections based primarily on political or economic pressure.

• Prioritize nonlethal coexistence strategies and invest in research to improve them.

• Provide ranchers with resources and compensation that reduce conflict without unnecessarily killing wolves.

• Ensure transparency and meaningful public participation in any future decisions affecting wolf protections.

America can support ranchers while also protecting native wildlife. These goals do not have to be mutually exclusive. I urge you to pursue policies that reflect both compassion and science and that preserve wolves as an important part of America's natural heritage.

Thank you for considering my views.

It's been so fun drawing with everyone ❤️

3 hours to go! Canvas link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CommunityDraw/s/YKCL37gwm0

As I'm sure you already know, Trump recently removed the endangered species designation from grey wolvesI the US. He has done this as an obvious attempt to appease ranchers who believe (correctly or otherwise) that wolves are stressing and killing their livestock and want to shoot them on sight.

As someone who raises working dogs, the first thing this brought to mind was “don't we already have a way to prevent that?” Livestock guardian dogs have been used for thousands of years in Europe and the Middle East to deter predators from attacking cattle, sheep, and goats, and have been bred to curb attacks from large powerful predators like bears and wolves, typically without great harm to the wolves or dogs involved. They're certainly not infallible, but a well-raised team of guardian dogs can do an excellent job protecting herds even in high-wolf areas. So why don't they seem to be more common among American farmers?

Maybe I'm just missing something and they are being widely used, but I've spent a fair amount of time in the western US and even worked a few shipping seasons on my uncles’ ranch and never saw or heard of anyone using these dogs. So what gives? Why are we jumping to shooting the wolves we’ve spent the last 50 years struggling to reintroduce?

Recently, the Mollie’s pack has moved outside of protected park lines and established a den in the middle of hunting grounds to raise their pups, making it so they are vulnerable to being hunted.

Named after Mollie Beattie, the first woman to direct the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Mollie’s are only remaining pack today that can trace their bloodline back to the very first wolves reintroduced to Yellowstone.

Now they are in danger of being killed. Some hunters have even already started making threats to specifically shoot 1090F, a 12 year old wolf who is not only the matriarch of the Mollie’s but the OLDEST living wolf in Yellowstone national park.

There is only TWO WEEKS left before it is legal for them to do so. If you can, please sign. Thank you for taking the time to read this!

I loved wolves since I was a child. I had stuffed wolf plushies, went to the science museums, seen the wolves in zoos..read books and movies about wolves - fantasy and documentary...

The Red Wolf of NC is almost extinct. The other wolves of yellowstone are very endangered. When I found out about Wolfquest I was thrilled. When I found about Wolfquest AE - I was OVER THE MOON SO MUCH that I went and bought a brand new gaming PC JUST TO PLAY WOLFQUEST AE.

I LOVE THE DEVS OF THIS GAME AND ENJOY EVRTYTHING THEY HAVE ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

I even made a suggestion to them years ago off on their youtube channel and THEY ACTUALLY INCLUDED MY IDEA into the game!! 😁😁

But Will we seriously witness the SLAUGHTER of ALL THE WILD WOLVES of Trump doing this?? I'm devestated.

President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the Interior Department to begin the process of removing endangered-species protections for gray wolves, again intervening in a long-running fight between conservationists and ranchers who say the predators threaten their operations.Trump also ordered the Interior and Agriculture departments to make it easier for ranchers to kill the wolves if necessary. The measures, long sought by GOP lawmakers from Western states, elicited a swift rebuke from animal rights groups and could draw legal challenges.

Trump signed an Executive Order today that could result in gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves losing federal protections and being killed. Wolves are responsible for less than .1% of livestock losses - the biggest threat to ranchers is the Administration’s beef imports.

What do we know about the wolves that lived in Ireland? What did they look like, and how big did they get?

What do we know about their genetics? What is the closest subspecies, the Iberian or the Eurasian? The wolves in Ireland had been on the Ireland since before the island seperated from Great Britain about 14,000 BC, so I assume that was before the other European Pleistocene wolves where replaced by Siberian wolves.

This is in Northern Wisconsin last winter. I saw a wolf chase a deer across the property about a mile away from this. Is it maybe a pup crawling out of a den that’s just melted to look like it only has two toes? I highly doubt it but every other possibility (fox, rabbit) doesn’t make sense.

I don't know how to link things in the title, but here's the article on this sociopath: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/09/01/wolf-advocates-get-creative-in-effort-to-save-famed-yellowstone-pack-from-hunters/

And here's a petition to help stop this bullcrap:

Help Save the Historic Mollie’s Wolf Pack Before It’s Too Late | Species Unite

Big Piney-area outdoorsman Mitch Gilliam told Cowboy State Daily that “I plan to be there on Sept. 15,” in hopes of filing his wolf tag.

In the shadow of nuclear disaster, these canines show remarkable resilience to the deadly disease.

1. Wolves

2. Sharks

3. Spiders

4. Vultures

5. Snakes

6. Crows

7. Hyenas

8. Piranhas

I was reading a book wherein a wolf pack gets poisoned and starts behaving very aggressively (due to mental degradation) and was wondering how wolves in the real world would actually behave (or if this has ever been studied and anybody could point me to some papers/scientific articles).

The context: in this fictional story (set in a fantasy world), a person is developing a poison and testing it on animals. With all the previous animals, the infected animal turns violent (even if they are usually incredibly peaceful and herbivores) and attacks everything it sees, humans and other animals alike. Relentlessly. Death seems to be the only thing that stops the animal. The impression I took from the descriptions is something like if a rabbit was infected and it saw a tiger or elephant, it would attack and not stop until dead, so that's the level of persistent aggression and mental collapse I'm talking about.

In the story, the person doing this testing then infects a whole wolf pack, which then attack some travelers. However, the wolves are still very pack-centric, attacking as a pack and with their attack having planned and thought-out elements (surround the group of prey, perform some feints to try to break the formation of the group of prey, attack from multiple directions, attacking in consistent waves to give the prey no break).

And, in the context of this fictional story, that strikes me as odd, since this poison seems to deteriorate an animal's mind to the point that they are just AGGRESSIVE and cannot think or reason. All the other examples talk about how the animals zero in on anything alive and just attack and attack and attack.

So, to me, it would make more sense that this infected wolf pack would attack the travelers, but also each other, and it would be an incredibly random and aggressive melee ending with few survivors among the wolves. I know some wolf behaviors are instinctual, but I think most of the hunting techniques we witness and associate with wolves are driven by intelligence just as much as instinct, so removing the intelligence of a wolf would drastically reduce its capacity to work effectively or in a pack.

Ergo, my question about if this has ever been studied. As in, has a pack ever been observed to still work well as a pack when several of its members are suffering from something causing mental degradation?

My dad thinks it’s a wolf, but I think it’s more likely to be like a black coyote or something. Looks too small and skinny to be a gray wolf. This was out in Stanley, Idaho.