{"id":1507,"date":"2010-04-08T11:56:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2010-04-08T11:56:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:56:16","slug":"biologist-wants-to-ban-howling-at-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Biologist Wants to Ban Howling at Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"

A biologist and consultant to national parks is telling wolf-cultists <\/a> in Canada not to howl at their four-legged gurus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alberta carnivore expert Cam McTavish says it is animal harassment.<\/p>\n

“When we have commercial groups or individuals or even researchers that are randomly calling wolf howls, I feel it is unwarranted,” he says.<\/p>\n

“In my opinion, it is a disturbing event in that wolves do react to these calls. If in their territory they hear another wolf howl, they have to respond to that wolf.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, mass human-wolf howling events<\/a> have been held with official blessing for many years, the article reports.<\/p>\n

A University of Alberta professor <\/a>suggested that listening to wolves howl builds support for saving endangered species.<\/p>\n

It’s an interesting question. Yes, you can harass wild animals and interfere with their feeding, breeding, and so on, even in the name of “nonconsumptive wildlife recreation.”<\/p>\n

The issue has arisen before with birders using recorded calls to entice rare birds, thus disrupting whatever the birds were doing otherwise.<\/p>\n

Yet when M. and I were censusing owls for the Bureau of Land Management<\/a> in the early 1990s, we both learned to make passable Mexican spotted owl <\/a>calls. Getting an owl to call back was the only way to locate them.<\/p>\n

Wolves are a special case. To some people they are “power animals” who somehow bless people. Other times, they kill people<\/a>, not to mention sheep, calves, dogs, etc. They are not our friends; they are wolves. And they have wolf value systems and priorities.<\/p>\n

That said, I would want more evidence before banning howling at the wolves.<\/p>\n

(Via Cat Urbigkit’s “Wolf Watch<\/a>.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A biologist and consultant to national parks is telling wolf-cultists in Canada not to howl at their four-legged gurus. Alberta carnivore expert Cam McTavish says it is animal harassment. “When we have commercial groups or individuals or even researchers that are randomly calling wolf howls, I feel it is unwarranted,” he says. “In my opinion, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-oj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1083,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1083","url_meta":{"origin":1507,"position":0},"title":"Seeking the Blessing of the Wolves","author":"Chas S. 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