how’re you guys doing we’re live in West
Yellowstone ahead of Yellowstone live
tonight at 9:00 8:00 central on National
Geographic and world with Trent and
naturalist at the Grizzly wolf Discovery
Center thank you so much for being here
Q tell us a little bit about the
Discovery Center all right welcome
everybody and land to be here and
geographic have some wonderful things to
talk about with was I tell you a little
bit about the Grizzly was just every
summer we are a nonprofit Wildlife Park
and education facility we’re in the town
of West Yellowstone just outside of
y’all so National Park and our mission
is to allow visitors to the ozone area
an opportunity to observe understand and
appreciate grizzly bears and gray wolves
and this morning we’re talking a little
bit about wolves here at the facility
and about why all the wolves and so we
have wolves here at the facility there
are two packs of two blooms when we’re
watching today a little bit of what we
call our granite pack the wolves in this
pack our summit summit is the male so
when you’re looking he he’s the larger
one males are about 20% bigger than
females
he’s also happens to be lighter in color
but you can’t tell was gender based on
its color in this case he has a unique
fold and it’s right here so when you see
him you should notice him and then we’re
looking right now a she is the female a
little bit smaller happens to be darker
and color and so those are the woods are
we talking about looking at this morning
great and guys please comment below with
questions and we’ll get to as many as
possible
can you tell us a little bit about the
generally in the United States North
America and then focus in on Yellowstone
it’s a it’s all tied together
wolves are native species they lived all
across the North America
and historically living from Central
America to the high ORAC and certainly
including in Yellowstone National Park
as European settlement happened was were
exterminated and in 1926 the last wild
wolf was killed by Park Rangers in
Yellowstone National Park
part of the extermination of predators
like wolves and mountain lions was
actually killed up here by soda Butte in
the Lamar Valley and so the Wolves are
gone from Yellowstone in the surrounding
region for about 70 years hmm in 1995 in
1996 there’s reintroduction of wolves
both Andy Allen Park and in the central
Idaho the purpose of that was to bring
this native species back and allowed to
play the important role in the ecosystem
so over the course of those two years 31
was from Canada and 10 wolves from
northern Montana were brought back in
the Yellowstone Park reintroduced here
and now we have a there’s about a
hundred was just slightly less than a
hundred was that have their territories
fully or partially inside Yellowstone
Park and and what are their impact on
the ecosystem reintroducing them and in
their effect when they weren’t there so
let’s talk about that wolves are really
important in the ecosystem they are
known as keystone species the keystone
species is a really important concept in
ecology keystone species are species
that play an extraordinary role in the
ecosystem they’re the keystone of an
arch and so was as apex predators affect
populations and what they had but also
affect behaviors of what they got and
was once they’re brought back went to do
exactly what wolves do they hunted they
hunted elk and a deer bison and moose
mostly elk is they’re the most abundant
ungulate the most abundant large
four-legged animal in
area and they certainly impacted their
population they also impacted their
behaviors interesting science that when
there isn’t a top predator around Alex
or hanging around at River bottoms
things like that eat on to what is there
what was help scare them up in a places
where they have a clear view of the
landscape and so with that it changed
alch interacted with the landscape and
we’ve seen recovery of things like Greg
Perry in our River habitats and so was
affect behaviors which affects the
ecosystem and and so you know once you
bring them you know reintroduce them
back into the park the next important
thing is mating can you tell us a little
bit about the mating of the Wolves so
wolves are social animals they live
together in packs in here in the
Northern Rockies
Stephanie about eight to ten in a pack
and was have specific roles within that
pack and so very few of the woes
actually are breeders you know typical
wolf pack and it’s just what we call the
Alpha pair that have hops there’s a
single litter of pups from the alpha
female each year in the breeding cycle
and then the birth of the pops really
affect the whole calendar year of the
whoops and so breeding takes place like
in February pups are born in April the
alpha female builds a den she actually
digs it down out and gives birth to the
pups there the pups live in that dam for
about eight to nine weeks so the sole
whole life of the pack is centered
around that den for that time and then
she’ll move the pack if series of what
are called romney woo sites and those
kind of are based operation for the path
the pups are there being babysitted like
all the members of pack over time and
then individual wolves are out honey not
patrolling and protecting the
territories and so there’s these hubs of
activity and then like spokes of a wheel
they’re heading out to their territory
and if you guys are just tuning in we’re
here at West Yellowstone at the Grizzly
wolf Discovery Center ahead of
Yellowstone live tonight in
a central National Geographic in NatGeo
wild so we have a couple questions if
you guys have any questions comment
below and we’ll get you as many as
possible we have a question from
Anastasia who asks what are some
misconceptions about wolves so there’s
lots of different misconceptions about
wolves there they’re really not very
well understood some of that is popular
media and things like that one of the
things is how dangerous wolves are two
people certainly any animals potentially
dangerous about wolf attacks aren’t
human beings are exceedingly rare
extremely rare and there’s other ideas
about was people come to visit the girls
named wolf discovery center and one of
the things that they can’t believe is
how small the wolves are mm-hmm well and
a male in the Northern Rockies generally
about a hundred pounds females are
typically about eighty we’re looking at
a daughter here she’s right in that that
eighty pound range or so where people
are expecting was to be huge the size of
like a Great Dane Messiah you know a big
big dog where they’re the size of a
medium dog German Shepherds are a really
good equivalent for weight sure and so
last night we had our aerial reporter in
a chopper for Yellowstone live we had
general wolf up there and she was
looking for wolves and it was kind of
you know fine some of them so can you
tell us one where to find them and you
know a little bit about the scarcity and
you know where they hide around the park
right so y’all started South 2.2 million
acres the size of Rhode Island Delaware
combined it’s a huge huge area just for
Yellowstone National Park and again
there’s right around just a less than a
hundred was living in that whole area so
that does make it a difficult species to
spot but there are certain areas in
Yellowstone that have a higher
concentration of wolves the northern
range what’s called the Lamar Valley
from tower junction out to the Northeast
enters is the most likely place to see
was in Yellowstone the hayden valley
from cane
going to Lake is another place but
wolves are want to notice crepuscular
animals and those are animals that are
active around sunrise and sunset will
sleep in the middle day and sleep in the
real night and so here’s your wildlife
watching any sort
especially for was going at those early
morning late evening hours really help
increased your chances of spotting
spotting these nettles in a while okay
tell us a little bit about their speed
and its importance to the hunting and
you know and how often they eat so
that’s yeah talk about all of us if any
thinks it’s all time together and it’s
really interesting
wolves can run fast and they can run
like 30 miles per hours or top speed
about what their prey well hi Ron I’m Oh
like what an outfit around but they’re
they’re not evolved for sprinting
they’ll do that under short distances
but they’re marathon runners the Sun has
set a slower speed and then they can go
for hours and hours and so wolves are
chased predators they’re not an ambush
predator like mountain lion will
surprise and spray if an elk is being
hunted by was it is fully aware of it
there’s no subtlety to the process they
actually will get a herd running they’ll
chase the herd chase the herd and then
ultimately what they’re doing is seeking
outlaw no really it’s and why those al
qarani they can see if an animal is slow
maybe been injured it has something like
that and they’ll actually switch to
hunting and specific animals and then
that endurance race helps them out they
can keep going and going for long
distances and there’s something really
interesting about was in the hunt there
seems to be a division of labor based on
gender we’ve talked about the size of
the wolves males definitely bigger in
females about 20% difference in size and
so the females a little bit smaller and
they tend to be faster animals and end
up doing most of the actual chasing
chasing and then once they have it got
the animal down a little bit they worked
on it it’s the males that generally come
in
the actual killing of the animal in the
hunt and so there’s there’s a process
wolves automated again cooperative
animals and so we talked a little bit
about the reintroduction of wolves and
TLO stone it’s an impact he tell us a
little bit about its impact on the other
animals certain animals that may be
flourishing because of the wolves in
reintroduction yeah let’s talk about
that a little more we talked about how
they affect behavior so what we’re
seeing is some interesting recoveries of
certain species we’re also seeing some
species that are going down
certainly Alcon umbers and populations
in effect away blows and then reduced
because that is their primary prey
the animal that’s been affected the most
actually was initially coyotes how to
steal so much of their further
competition for the food and so they
affected them but by changing behaviors
moving out on a river bottoms which
Aspen will lock on to entries seem to be
in interesting recovery with that they
helped they’ve helped shade rivers keep
keep the temperatures down they helped
prevent erosion as rivers have come back
Beaver populations and come back and
Chris beavers engineer landscape they
create a landscape great wetlands and as
they’ve created the wetlands or scenic
amphibian populations that seem to
recovery and so ecosystems are
incredibly complex and they’re dynamic
they’re constantly changing and if a
species is removed from an ecosystem
it affects all kinds of things things
that we just wouldn’t even expect things
that we wouldn’t think that there’s a
connection between wolves and in towns
like boreal toads and so when the
species got back all these changes came
around again things that again we just
are not expecting and it still being
closely studied wolves urban back since
1995 it’s been 23 years and every year
you know with new things that they
didn’t know about was in a connection to
the rest of nature great and if you’re
just joining us we’re here at the
Grizzly wolf Discovery Center in West
Yellowstone just outside of Yellowstone
National Park
again common blow with questions we’ll
get to as many as possible so we talked
a little bit about you know the
reintroduction and the habitats and now
we want to get to the people so if
you’re out in the park or you around the
park and you and you happen to run into
a wolf
you tell us a little about what to do
and what not to do so when you’re in
your Elster National Park what you want
to do is just be aware of all wildlife
all wildlife
well I was included you want to be aware
of their presence the animals see also
National Park are wild people need to
certainly think about that understand
that they’re not even raised pets
they’re not tame and not domesticated
any animal is potentially dangerous well
certainly included there hasn’t been in
in a human injury by wolves in
Yellowstone National Park we hope that
that continues and it’s very rare that
humans are ever injured by was anywhere
in the world the animal in Yeltsin that
actually injures the most people is
bison is bison and so in Yeltsin
National Park the rule is 25 yards away
from any animal hundred yards away from
bears and wolves and so keep your
distance take amazing pictures y’all so
it’s an amazing place to see wildlife
Trent I want to thank you so much for
joining us and thank you everyone who’s
watching make sure to tune into
Yellowstone live tonight at 9:00 8:00
central on National Geographic and
NatGeo wild thanks so much guys all
right have a wonderful day please come visit the gerousia most Discovery son
Yellowstone ahead of Yellowstone live
tonight at 9:00 8:00 central on National
Geographic and world with Trent and
naturalist at the Grizzly wolf Discovery
Center thank you so much for being here
Q tell us a little bit about the
Discovery Center all right welcome
everybody and land to be here and
geographic have some wonderful things to
talk about with was I tell you a little
bit about the Grizzly was just every
summer we are a nonprofit Wildlife Park
and education facility we’re in the town
of West Yellowstone just outside of
y’all so National Park and our mission
is to allow visitors to the ozone area
an opportunity to observe understand and
appreciate grizzly bears and gray wolves
and this morning we’re talking a little
bit about wolves here at the facility
and about why all the wolves and so we
have wolves here at the facility there
are two packs of two blooms when we’re
watching today a little bit of what we
call our granite pack the wolves in this
pack our summit summit is the male so
when you’re looking he he’s the larger
one males are about 20% bigger than
females
he’s also happens to be lighter in color
but you can’t tell was gender based on
its color in this case he has a unique
fold and it’s right here so when you see
him you should notice him and then we’re
looking right now a she is the female a
little bit smaller happens to be darker
and color and so those are the woods are
we talking about looking at this morning
great and guys please comment below with
questions and we’ll get to as many as
possible
can you tell us a little bit about the
generally in the United States North
America and then focus in on Yellowstone
it’s a it’s all tied together
wolves are native species they lived all
across the North America
and historically living from Central
America to the high ORAC and certainly
including in Yellowstone National Park
as European settlement happened was were
exterminated and in 1926 the last wild
wolf was killed by Park Rangers in
Yellowstone National Park
part of the extermination of predators
like wolves and mountain lions was
actually killed up here by soda Butte in
the Lamar Valley and so the Wolves are
gone from Yellowstone in the surrounding
region for about 70 years hmm in 1995 in
1996 there’s reintroduction of wolves
both Andy Allen Park and in the central
Idaho the purpose of that was to bring
this native species back and allowed to
play the important role in the ecosystem
so over the course of those two years 31
was from Canada and 10 wolves from
northern Montana were brought back in
the Yellowstone Park reintroduced here
and now we have a there’s about a
hundred was just slightly less than a
hundred was that have their territories
fully or partially inside Yellowstone
Park and and what are their impact on
the ecosystem reintroducing them and in
their effect when they weren’t there so
let’s talk about that wolves are really
important in the ecosystem they are
known as keystone species the keystone
species is a really important concept in
ecology keystone species are species
that play an extraordinary role in the
ecosystem they’re the keystone of an
arch and so was as apex predators affect
populations and what they had but also
affect behaviors of what they got and
was once they’re brought back went to do
exactly what wolves do they hunted they
hunted elk and a deer bison and moose
mostly elk is they’re the most abundant
ungulate the most abundant large
four-legged animal in
area and they certainly impacted their
population they also impacted their
behaviors interesting science that when
there isn’t a top predator around Alex
or hanging around at River bottoms
things like that eat on to what is there
what was help scare them up in a places
where they have a clear view of the
landscape and so with that it changed
alch interacted with the landscape and
we’ve seen recovery of things like Greg
Perry in our River habitats and so was
affect behaviors which affects the
ecosystem and and so you know once you
bring them you know reintroduce them
back into the park the next important
thing is mating can you tell us a little
bit about the mating of the Wolves so
wolves are social animals they live
together in packs in here in the
Northern Rockies
Stephanie about eight to ten in a pack
and was have specific roles within that
pack and so very few of the woes
actually are breeders you know typical
wolf pack and it’s just what we call the
Alpha pair that have hops there’s a
single litter of pups from the alpha
female each year in the breeding cycle
and then the birth of the pops really
affect the whole calendar year of the
whoops and so breeding takes place like
in February pups are born in April the
alpha female builds a den she actually
digs it down out and gives birth to the
pups there the pups live in that dam for
about eight to nine weeks so the sole
whole life of the pack is centered
around that den for that time and then
she’ll move the pack if series of what
are called romney woo sites and those
kind of are based operation for the path
the pups are there being babysitted like
all the members of pack over time and
then individual wolves are out honey not
patrolling and protecting the
territories and so there’s these hubs of
activity and then like spokes of a wheel
they’re heading out to their territory
and if you guys are just tuning in we’re
here at West Yellowstone at the Grizzly
wolf Discovery Center ahead of
Yellowstone live tonight in
a central National Geographic in NatGeo
wild so we have a couple questions if
you guys have any questions comment
below and we’ll get you as many as
possible we have a question from
Anastasia who asks what are some
misconceptions about wolves so there’s
lots of different misconceptions about
wolves there they’re really not very
well understood some of that is popular
media and things like that one of the
things is how dangerous wolves are two
people certainly any animals potentially
dangerous about wolf attacks aren’t
human beings are exceedingly rare
extremely rare and there’s other ideas
about was people come to visit the girls
named wolf discovery center and one of
the things that they can’t believe is
how small the wolves are mm-hmm well and
a male in the Northern Rockies generally
about a hundred pounds females are
typically about eighty we’re looking at
a daughter here she’s right in that that
eighty pound range or so where people
are expecting was to be huge the size of
like a Great Dane Messiah you know a big
big dog where they’re the size of a
medium dog German Shepherds are a really
good equivalent for weight sure and so
last night we had our aerial reporter in
a chopper for Yellowstone live we had
general wolf up there and she was
looking for wolves and it was kind of
you know fine some of them so can you
tell us one where to find them and you
know a little bit about the scarcity and
you know where they hide around the park
right so y’all started South 2.2 million
acres the size of Rhode Island Delaware
combined it’s a huge huge area just for
Yellowstone National Park and again
there’s right around just a less than a
hundred was living in that whole area so
that does make it a difficult species to
spot but there are certain areas in
Yellowstone that have a higher
concentration of wolves the northern
range what’s called the Lamar Valley
from tower junction out to the Northeast
enters is the most likely place to see
was in Yellowstone the hayden valley
from cane
going to Lake is another place but
wolves are want to notice crepuscular
animals and those are animals that are
active around sunrise and sunset will
sleep in the middle day and sleep in the
real night and so here’s your wildlife
watching any sort
especially for was going at those early
morning late evening hours really help
increased your chances of spotting
spotting these nettles in a while okay
tell us a little bit about their speed
and its importance to the hunting and
you know and how often they eat so
that’s yeah talk about all of us if any
thinks it’s all time together and it’s
really interesting
wolves can run fast and they can run
like 30 miles per hours or top speed
about what their prey well hi Ron I’m Oh
like what an outfit around but they’re
they’re not evolved for sprinting
they’ll do that under short distances
but they’re marathon runners the Sun has
set a slower speed and then they can go
for hours and hours and so wolves are
chased predators they’re not an ambush
predator like mountain lion will
surprise and spray if an elk is being
hunted by was it is fully aware of it
there’s no subtlety to the process they
actually will get a herd running they’ll
chase the herd chase the herd and then
ultimately what they’re doing is seeking
outlaw no really it’s and why those al
qarani they can see if an animal is slow
maybe been injured it has something like
that and they’ll actually switch to
hunting and specific animals and then
that endurance race helps them out they
can keep going and going for long
distances and there’s something really
interesting about was in the hunt there
seems to be a division of labor based on
gender we’ve talked about the size of
the wolves males definitely bigger in
females about 20% difference in size and
so the females a little bit smaller and
they tend to be faster animals and end
up doing most of the actual chasing
chasing and then once they have it got
the animal down a little bit they worked
on it it’s the males that generally come
in
the actual killing of the animal in the
hunt and so there’s there’s a process
wolves automated again cooperative
animals and so we talked a little bit
about the reintroduction of wolves and
TLO stone it’s an impact he tell us a
little bit about its impact on the other
animals certain animals that may be
flourishing because of the wolves in
reintroduction yeah let’s talk about
that a little more we talked about how
they affect behavior so what we’re
seeing is some interesting recoveries of
certain species we’re also seeing some
species that are going down
certainly Alcon umbers and populations
in effect away blows and then reduced
because that is their primary prey
the animal that’s been affected the most
actually was initially coyotes how to
steal so much of their further
competition for the food and so they
affected them but by changing behaviors
moving out on a river bottoms which
Aspen will lock on to entries seem to be
in interesting recovery with that they
helped they’ve helped shade rivers keep
keep the temperatures down they helped
prevent erosion as rivers have come back
Beaver populations and come back and
Chris beavers engineer landscape they
create a landscape great wetlands and as
they’ve created the wetlands or scenic
amphibian populations that seem to
recovery and so ecosystems are
incredibly complex and they’re dynamic
they’re constantly changing and if a
species is removed from an ecosystem
it affects all kinds of things things
that we just wouldn’t even expect things
that we wouldn’t think that there’s a
connection between wolves and in towns
like boreal toads and so when the
species got back all these changes came
around again things that again we just
are not expecting and it still being
closely studied wolves urban back since
1995 it’s been 23 years and every year
you know with new things that they
didn’t know about was in a connection to
the rest of nature great and if you’re
just joining us we’re here at the
Grizzly wolf Discovery Center in West
Yellowstone just outside of Yellowstone
National Park
again common blow with questions we’ll
get to as many as possible so we talked
a little bit about you know the
reintroduction and the habitats and now
we want to get to the people so if
you’re out in the park or you around the
park and you and you happen to run into
a wolf
you tell us a little about what to do
and what not to do so when you’re in
your Elster National Park what you want
to do is just be aware of all wildlife
all wildlife
well I was included you want to be aware
of their presence the animals see also
National Park are wild people need to
certainly think about that understand
that they’re not even raised pets
they’re not tame and not domesticated
any animal is potentially dangerous well
certainly included there hasn’t been in
in a human injury by wolves in
Yellowstone National Park we hope that
that continues and it’s very rare that
humans are ever injured by was anywhere
in the world the animal in Yeltsin that
actually injures the most people is
bison is bison and so in Yeltsin
National Park the rule is 25 yards away
from any animal hundred yards away from
bears and wolves and so keep your
distance take amazing pictures y’all so
it’s an amazing place to see wildlife
Trent I want to thank you so much for
joining us and thank you everyone who’s
watching make sure to tune into
Yellowstone live tonight at 9:00 8:00
central on National Geographic and
NatGeo wild thanks so much guys all
right have a wonderful day please come visit the gerousia most Discovery son
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