In this 2008 photo provided by Josh Harrison, a coyote stands in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass. Coyotes have lived in the East since the 1930s, and recent genetic tests have shown they are actually a mixture of coyote, wolf and dog. And scientists say they might be getting genetically closer to wolves, helping […]
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Your dog's ancestor came from a group of wolves 40,000 years ago, study says
We know quite a bit about dog biology. We know that, though a chihuahua and a chow chow are dramatically different in size and shape, dogs share all but 0.15 percent of their genome. We know that a dog’s sense of smell is so refined it can sniff the passage of time. We know that […]
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Outdoors in Maine: A hunt turns into a lesson in futility
You would think that I would learn after a while. Big game can be hit hard with a high velocity bullet and leave no trace. When my wife Diane shot a cow moose a decade or more ago with a .35 Remington, the animal disappeared into a fir thicket. There was no indication on the […]
Posted inLetters
A. Girouard: No help for the wolves
There is no real good reason for trying to bring back wolves to the upper states in the U.S. State officials will do what was done in Michigan — have a wolf hunt. People have spent a lot of time and money in trying to bring those great animals back. As soon as the wolves […]
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Debate continues over presence of wolves
Are there wolves in Maine? While most wildlife experts agree that Maine would be a great place for wolves because it has abundant habitat to support them, they say there is no resident population of breeding wolves here. But a group that advocates for the natural recovery of wolves in Maine sees things differently, and […]