BACKGROUND The movement of animals makes them fascinating but difficult study
subjects. Animal movements underpin many biological phenomena, and understanding …

Dispersal is a key demographic process involving three stages: emigration, transience and
settlement; each of which is influenced by individual, social and environmental …

Movement data provide a window–often our only window–into the cognitive, social and
biological processes that underlie the behavioural ecology of animals in the wild. Robust …

The growth of the Finnish wolf (Canis lupus) population during the last years has highlighted
people's contradictory attitudes toward wolves. The supranational conservation objectives …

Wolf Canis lupus diet was studied by scat analysis in four main and several other locations
recolonised by this species in Central and Western Poland between 2002 and 2009. Wild …

Conservation of wide-ranging species and their mobility is a major challenge in an
increasingly fragmented world. Species are traditionally viewed as static conservation …

Highlights•We demonstrate how cohesion among wolf pack members changes over
time.•Cohesion was strongest during mid-winter but decreased gradually towards …

Since the mid-twentieth century, under different management regimes (over 20 years of a
wolf control program followed by 20 years of trophy hunting), wolves were absent or rare in …

ABSTRACT By using Global Positioning System technology, we documented the long‐
distance dispersal of a wolf (Canis lupus) from the northern Apennines in Italy to the western …

During the last few decades wolf management objectives have largely switched from state
sponsored control to conservation. Following this change in status there has been a …