Our dogs aren’t just barking at cars — they’re communicating like their ancestors, wolves. That's according to Jeffrey Reed, ...

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MAMMOTH, Wyo. — At 1:23 a.m. on a recent summer night, the matriarch of the Rescue Creek wolf pack, known to scientists as 1490F, bellowed out two long, melodic howls that reverberated across the ...

Of all the myths that dog the wolf, none is more widely accepted than the idea that wolves howl at the moon. Images of wolves with their heads upturned, singing at the night sky, are as unquestioned ...

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This time of year, the sound of a wolf howl piercing the night can really send shivers up your spine. But that call of the wild isn’t meant to scare you; it’s actually a message to other wolves.

If there were ever a good excuse to howl at the moon, it’s the next full moon on Thursday, January 25. (Seriously, it's literally called the Wolf Moon.) Wolves howl this time of year, hence the ...

Howling is loudest when a close companion is taken away, study shows. Sept. 1, 2013— -- The most ferocious predator in the forest, despised by cattle ranchers and feared by humans and nearly ...