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A 57-year predator study will likely be forced to shift directions as early as next year because the wolf population it studies is nearly extinct. Since 1958, scientists have tracked the ebbing wolf population on Michigan’s Isle Royale, an island in Lake Superior. Now the study is down to only three predators, and that number may reach zero by as early as next year, according to a report in Nature.
When the study first began, the Isle Royale wolf population neared 50, but it has been declining for some time now. A decade ago there were just 30 wolves on the island, and a Nature report last year had that number down to ten.
The last male wolf joined the pack in 1997
In the 1940s, three Canadian gray wolves walked across the ice on Lake…
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