Yellowstone National Park biologist have shared video footage showing wolves delivering animal bones and other items to their den to keep younger wolves occupied.
Yellowstone National Park has shared video footage showing wolves delivering bones and other skeletal remains to their den to keep younger wolves occupied.
“Pups await food deliveries from successful hunts, but in the absence of food adults bring ‘toys.’ The instinct to bring items back to the den may be reinforced by evolution, and probably helps keep adults from being mobbed by sharp puppy teeth.”
Two adventurous dogs apparently out to make new friends approached a pack of wolves with tails wagging, but that didn’t last long.
Two adventurous dogs apparently out to make new friends approached a pack of wolves with tails wagging, but they quickly turned around and ran away with tails between their legs when the reception they got was anything but friendly.
Raffaele Imondi captured the encounter on video in Abruzzo, Italy.
Fortunately, things turned out well for the dogs, as Imondi explained to USA Today/FTW Outdoors:
“The dogs are not mine, they are someone’s dogs, used to walking around alone and in this case they went where the wolves slept, probably looking for food. In the end the wolves chased them away twice, but without attacking them…allowing the dogs to go away permanently without hurting them.”
We take a look at what you need to know for the UNC football program’s matchup against NC State this Friday.
The 9-2 North Carolina Tar Heels will host their last regular season game against 7-4 NC State on Friday as the season winds down.
A game that has been circled on calendars for quite some time is finally here, as the two rivals finally meet. Both teams have shared moments of success, being in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, and moments of disappointment as being on the losing end of games they heavily favored in.
North Carolina is coming off their worse loss of the season to a 5-6 Georgia Tech team, losing 21-17 in a game they were favored to win by 21 points. NC State’s injury bug has been a clear indicator on their downward path, going 2-3 since their starting quarterback Devin Leary was listed OUT for the remainder of the season after undergoing surgery for a torn pectoral muscle.
Despite the two paths, both programs’ hatred for one another stayed as they traded shots throughout the season. UNC has a shot at sweeping North Carolina’s top division one programs, already having wins over Appalachian State, Duke and Wake.
The last time these two teams met, the Wolf Pack got the better of UNC, beating them 34-30. The trash talk and looking to even the score from last season should motivate North Carolina to get it done.
The North Carolina football program announces kick off time for the NC State game on November 25th.
The highly anticipated North Carolina Tar Heels vs. NC State Wolf pack football game has a schedule update, with the two teams set to face off at 3:30 P.M. eastern time on ABC. The Atlantic Coast Conference rivalry game will take place in the sold-out Kenan Memorial Stadium on November 25th.
The two teams started with different trajectories as NC State got gifted a 13th ranking in the Associated Press Top 25 Polls to start the season. Meanwhile, UNC cracked the list in week eight.
This pivotal meeting has been circled for quite some time, with both teams trading shots throughout the season. There is a chance UNC will have already locked up the ACC Coastal division. However, with the noise outside the field, UNC still has plenty to play for in this meeting.
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A wolf pack in Yellowstone was feeding on a bison, prompting officials to mark off the area with traffic cones. The pups misunderstood.
The Wapiti Wolf Pack of Yellowstone National Park was feeding on a bison carcass recently, prompting park officials to put out traffic cones to mark off the area.
Obviously, the pups of the pack didn’t much care about traffic control or protecting their kill, since they took the opportunity to snatch up a traffic cone and play with it in the snow.
Kyle Warren captured video of the “shenanigans,” along with the pups playing on a snowbank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkifefTJy7c
“Some of the members of the Wapati Wolf Pack were feeding on a bison carcass,” Warren said in describing his video, taken March 29 but posted by ViralHog last Wednesday.
“They had taken one of the traffic cones several days prior from the road. I thought the wolves were leaving the area. Instead, they grabbed the cone and started playing with it.”
Yellowstone Wolf Tracker also posted Facebook video of the pups playing with a traffic cone, saying several other cones were moved about “no doubt the work of these pups.”
The wolf pack a visitor had been searching for in Yellowstone suddenly appeared right before his eyes in a once-in-a-lifetime sighting.
Nick Zimmer spent the day in Yellowstone National Park on Monday attempting to find the remainder of the Wapiti Lake wolf pack. He had spotted eight of them sleeping and hoped they would lead him to the others.
As darkness began to fall on the northern range of Yellowstone, Zimmer gave up his quest and started to head out of the park. And then it happened. He found the rest of the pack.
Zimmer explained to USA Today/For The Win Outdoors what transpired:
“Right around the corner, I saw shadows moving very quickly and towards the road. So all I could think to do was grab my phone and record whatever animal was running towards the road.
“All of a sudden an elk appeared in my headlights running full speed and with wolves closely behind it. I was shocked, and when the elk ran onto the road, it slipped and a wolf gained on it and actually bit onto its hind leg. The elk managed to regain its footing and kick the wolf off.
“More and more wolves ran across and I realized this was the rest of the pack I was looking for all day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVXpG1eclWI
“They continued to chase the elk and actually (took) it down about 70 yards off of the road. Being the only one there, it was so quiet around that you could actually hear the wolves panting after a long chase.
“I could still barely see them in the darkness and stayed a while watching and listening to the wolves eat their fresh kill. I have spent many days in the park tracking wolves but have never had an experience like this. Once in a lifetime sighting.”
Only eight wolf packs are known in Yellowstone National Park, so it was quite a rare sighting when tourists came upon a pack and captured video one night.
Only eight packs of wolves—numbering less than 100 in all—are known to roam in Yellowstone National Park, so it was quite a rare sighting when tourists traveling inside the park at around 10 o’clock at night came upon a pack of wolves strolling on the road ahead.
As Daryl Mckay and his companion slowly approached, the entire wolf pack appeared before them in their headlines in a sighting Mckay called on Facebook a “simply amazing and awesome experience.”
They were driving back from a day trip to Cody, Wyo., between Norris and Madison junctions on Highway 89 just before Gibbon Falls when the sighting occurred on the night of Sept. 11. They captured the video on their iPhone.
“We got to watch these beauties for about 15 minutes, including a lot of howling,” Mckay wrote.
The incredible sighting comes on the heels of Yellowstone National Park, in the winter of 2019-20, celebrating the 25th anniversary of wolves being reintroduced into the park.
The park reported an estimated 528 wolves resided in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as of 2015, but as of January 2020, there were at least 94 wolves in the park and eight wolf packs were noted.
In general, wolf numbers have fluctuated between 83 and 108 wolves since 2009, the park notes, adding that they inhabit most of the park with their peak activity at dawn and dusk.
These tourists just happen to catch them at the right time. In fact, it was quite the wildlife adventure for Mckay and his companion, as he also posted video of a grizzly bear, a bull moose and a large bison strolling down the road in what he called a “classic Yellowstone traffic jam.”
JaVale McGee hasn’t played for the Nevada Wolf Pack since 2008, but the next three months might give him flashbacks to his college life.
“I feel like I’m in college. I feel like I’m in a dorm,” he told his dad on a video chat featured in one of his YouTube videos.
The 7’0 Lakers center recently started Life in the Bubble, a vlog that gives a true insider look at what life is like for NBA players staying in the Disney World bubble. McGee’s oldest video on his YouTube channel is the Golden State Warriors’ Championship parade three years ago. He has not always been a consistent vlogger, although he has shared a decent amount of music credited to Pierre, his music producer alter ego.
Life in the Bubble is only about two weeks old, with the first episode being released on July 12. However, each of the first six episodes have reached at least a million views and have helped him acquire 432K subscribers even with less than 40 total videos in his channel. An episode titled Full Team Scrimmage! Who Won?! posted on July 21 has been the most popular so far, reaching 2.1 million views. That video also happens to debut LeBron James and head coach Frank Vogel.
Sports bubbles are something that have not really been done before, so a lot of people are curious about the details of it. McGee’s videos show a range of stuff, from the Call of Duty set up in his room to the area where players get tested for COVID-19. Since McGee is a familiar face, other players and staff are seen having relaxed, casual interactions with him.
Stacey Robinson, a massage therapist who McGee playfully teases, has quickly become a fan favorite. She doesn’t love being on camera, she told McGee to “turn that mess off” after he told her she was a star and people love her on the internet.
A handful of players have already shared photos of food, but the vlog shows McGee’s experience with his vegan diet. Spoiler alert: not everything is good, but the tater tots are fire. McGee is not afraid to share parts of his personal life. In one episode, he is seen having a conversation with strength and conditioning coach Chattin Hill talking about when he first found out he had asthma.
McGee films his own videos but they are edited by Devin Dismang who is also an executive producer of the series. They feature some of Pierre’s music.
The latest episode came out July 26 and it’s a little different from the other ones.
“Another 9AM Practice? I wasn’t in the mood to vlog so decided to make one of my teammates do it,” wrote McGee, not a morning person, in the YouTube video description.
Danny Green, who has his own podcast called Inside the Green Room, was the lucky player to take over the show for that day.
The Lakers are not the only ones with this type of content. Matisse Thybulle from the Philadelphia 76ers is also vlogging a series called Welcome to the Bubble. The rookie films and edits all the material himself. As for media members, outlets like the Washington Post have published content sharing their own experiences.
Fans have already shown their love for insider looks. Earlier this year, Michael Jordan’s The Last Dance averaged 5.6 million viewers throughout its 10 episodes. In Thybulle’s first video, Tobias Harris joked about how they were practically filming their own version of an ESPN 30 for 30. With a limited amount of media access in Orlando, any content that gives an inside look at the bubble should be hot stuff for a while, so maybe that’s not so far fetched.
The NBA is currently playing scrimmages but the season is set to officially restart at the end of July. McGee and the rest of the Lakers will face the Los Angeles Clippers for their first game at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Arena on July 30.
