Wolf-Bison Interactions in Yellowstone National Park

• Main Authors: Smith, Douglas W., Mech, L. David, Meagher, Mary, Clark, Wendy E., Jaffe, Rosemary, Phillips, Michael K., Mack, John A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2000
• Subjects: Feature Articles; Lone; Canis lupus; Bison bison bison
• Online Access: http://jmammal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/81/4/1128; https://doi.org/10.1644/1545-1542(2000)081<1128:WBIIYN>2.0.CO;2

We studied interactions of reintroduced wolves ( Canis lupus ) with bison ( Bison bison ) in Yellowstone National Park. Only 2 of 41 wolves in this study had been exposed to bison before their translocation. Wolves were more successful killing elk ( Cervus elaphus ) than bison, and elk were more abu...