2/14/2023 0 Comments Carnivores in the everglades![]() ![]() The wolves ate coyotes, freeing up their prey for others. Birds and beavers, as well as the animals that live in dams, also returned. In the places where they returned, wolves tidied up explosive deer and elk populations, which had eaten valleys barren. Since their reintroduction to Yellowstone and Idaho in the 1990s, gray wolves have done so well that they're reclaiming other parts of the northern Rockies. Poisonings and unregulated hunting obliterated nearly all of these majestic canines from Canada to Mexico, their original home range. But a century ago, you'd have been hard pressed to find any there. If you're lucky, you can spot a gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park. (John and Karen Hollingsworth/United States Fish and Wildlife Service via The New York Times) ![]() The gray wolf’s reintroduction to Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s has been a success story of a carnivore’s rewilding helping an entire ecosystem. ![]()
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