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What big teeth you have: the wolf in children’s books – The UNESCO Courier

The UNESCO CourierPan-African Forum for the Culture of PeacePublic access to information is a key component of UNESCO’s commitment to transparency and its accountability.Based on human rights and fundamental freedoms, the 2005 Convention ultimately provides a new framework for informed, transparent and UNESCO’s e-Platform on intercultural dialogue is designed for organizations and individuals to learn from […]

Alpha wolf concept is too furious for pet food industry – PetfoodIndustry

One of Hollywood’s alpha males, Vin Diesel, unwittingly debunked the dominance hierarchy idea in a quote from “The Fast and the Furious” series.In real wolf packs, there are no alphas, betas or other Greek letter designations for degrees of dominance and submission. Nevertheless, the concept of alpha males appears repeatedly in business leadership guides and […]

They said a bear attacked their Rolls Royce. But the real culprit was even stranger – Los Angeles Times

The footage is shocking. A brown bear — and there hasn’t been one of those in Southern California for more than a century — breaks into a 2010 Rolls Royce Ghost, seemingly using the door handle. Then it lumbers around inside the car, raking the leather seats with its mighty claws. Except it wasn’t a […]

In "True West," a glimpse of the myth and brutal reality of wolf reintroduction – The Colorado Sun

The Colorado Sun Telling stories that matter in a dynamic, evolving state. Editor’s Picks: Colorado is getting older | Child care crisis | “Big, beautiful bill” & MedicaidAuthor’s note: The following passage is about a man who operated a wolf-friendly ranch on the edge of the Yellowstone ecosystem. Roger Lang moved to Montana in the […]

Evolution in the savannah – Museum für Naturkunde

In Africa today, savanna habitats such as grasslands and woodlands support many different herbivorous mammals, including antelopes, giraffe, zebra, pigs, elephant, rhinos, and hippopotamus. This is even truer in the past, as it is common to find almost double the number of species at African fossil sites of the last 5 million years. Today, savanna […]

Kenya’s “man-eater” lions of the 19th century confirmed using DNA – cosmosmagazine.com

Cosmos » AnimalsCosmos science journalistDNA extracted from between the teeth of 2 Kenyan lion specimens from the 1890s shows that the animals ate humans, as well as giraffes and wildebeests.The pair of male lions were dubbed the “Tsavo Man-Eaters” and are thought to have eaten dozens of people, including workers on the Kenya-Uganda railway in […]