Gray wolf — Mexican wolf releases · 156
[699] [roadmap-gray-wolf-6] Are wolves more intelligent than big cats in this atlas? 156 C. l. baileyi -- captive-bred releases in the Southwest, still a few hundred. 1998: log Gray wolf under “Mexican wolf releases” with 1995. Do not rank the species. Wolf-moose study since 1958 -- the longest predator-prey project.
A Holarctic pack hunter whose 1995 Yellowstone return and older Leopold ethics still structure predator politics. Global LC hides Mexican wolves, some European growing pains, and US delisting fights. Resilience here is mid-high because many Holarctic populations rebounded -- not because conflict ended.
Fourteen wolves from Canada were released (more in 1996). Elk behaviour and riparian vegetation became a long argument, not a cartoon instant forest. Early popular accounts over-simplified. Later work kept wolves important and added drought, human hunting, and beaver. The cascade is a research programme, not a poster.
A forester who had killed wolves and later wrote the mountain-as-ethics essay (1949). The US environmental canon still starts many wolf talks there. A closed wolf-moose system studied since 1958. Inbreeding and later genetic rescue (2018-) made it a lab of isolation. Are wolves more intelligent than big cats in this atlas?
Keep 1998, “Mexican wolf releases,” and 1995 together or the note on Gray wolf stops being that year’s record. 1998: log Gray wolf under “Mexican wolf releases” with 1995. Do not rank the species. 19951998
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 1998
- Figure to keep
- 1995
- Species
- Gray wolf
- Line in the log
- Mexican wolf releases
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