New research from the University of Minnesota upends long-held understanding about how wolves, bears and cougars—three of Yellowstone National Park's most iconic carnivores—compete for prey. For years ...

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A new study has found that cougars are making slight changes to their diets in order to avoid encounters with wolves. In Yellowstone National Park, cougar and wolf habitats are overlapping more than ...

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A cougar feeding on a deer carcass in Yellowstone National Park. Credit: National Park Service New research from the University of Minnesota upends long-held understanding about how wolves, bears and ...

Large carnivores are both clashing and coexisting in the western United States. Although wolves dominate cougars and steal their prey, cougars' shift from elk- to deer-heavy diets, paired with a ...