Listening to the Wild: What Wolf Howls Can Teach Us

Just before dawn in Yellowstone National Park, something ancient fills the valley. A wolf howl rises — low, long, carrying for miles through the cold air. To most visitors, it is breathtaking. To Taylor Rabe and Amir Dehbi, Conservation Nation fellows working at the frontier of wildlife science, it is data.  Wolves are among the most ecologically important, and socially controversial animals in […]