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In Yellowstone’s wild chess match between wolves and cougars, it turns out the real power play is theft. After tracking ...

A new study shows that interactions between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park are driven by wolves stealing prey killed by cougars and that shifts in cougar diets to smaller prey help ...

Wolves usually rely on cooperation to survive. Hunting large prey such as elk typically involves multiple pack members working together to isolate and exhaust an animal. That reality makes one ...