Tracking Arctic Wolves Through the Winter
December 2nd, 2009 | By Nora Sawyer | Filed in Uncategorized
This news story really pleases my inner eight-year-old/Julie of the Wolves fan:
Up on Ellesmere Island, just 600 miles south of the pole, scientists are trying to find out how the world’s northernmost wolf pack spends the winter. The wolves’ winter habitat is too cold and too dark for human observers, so researchers are utilizing the latest technology to keep abreast of the wolves and their winter movements.
They’ve attached a tracking collar to Brutus, the pack’s 9-year-old leader. The collar emails the team about the pack’s movements, allowing them to observe the movements of the wolves and gain some insight on how the wolves survive the long, cold winter. And best of all for all us armchair wildlife biologists, there’s a blog posting regular updates of the wolves’ travels across the Arctic ice.
Wolves that blog! On the Internet no one will know they aren’t dogs.
This is one blog I want to follow, thanks for the heads up!
By Mary Gray - 12/02/2009 @ 11:04 pm
do you know what some of their winter activities are because i am doing a project on arctic wolfs.
By dylan - 01/27/2010 @ 1:33 pm