1. As a wolf population expands, he said, it spreads outside parks. 2. But while the number of tigers continued to plunge, with many poached to feed the market for tiger parts elsewhere in Asia, wolf populations soared. 3. Countries with large wolf populations generally have large problems with them, judging from the conference presentations. 4. In the latest count, the wolf population is up and the moose population is down, showing that there is no static balance. 5. It also found that the Adirondacks had little more than half the area needed to sustain a wolf population. 6. Just one of them had ever succeeded in rearing pups, and biologists feared that inbreeding had caused the isolated wolf population to stagnate. 7. Left to themselves, wolf populations tend to expand until they inhabit all suitable territory available. 8. Moreover, the study says, the Adirondacks are so isolated from the wolf populations living in Canada that natural recolonization is unlikely there. 9. People are disappearing and the wolf population is a tad out of control. 10. People are disappearing in the Seattle suburb of Wolf Lake and the wolf population is on the rise. |
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