{"id":10304,"date":"2013-08-11T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=10304"},"modified":"2013-08-09T12:32:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T16:32:02","slug":"packs-of-humans-howl-for-wolf-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/08\/11\/packs-of-humans-howl-for-wolf-sightings\/","title":{"rendered":"Packs of humans howl for wolf sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Wolves<\/a>

Wolves in Algonquin Park. Photo: JDB Photos<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

This comes from the National Post about a new fad in which “…the hunters become the hunter in Algonquin Park as packs of tourists race around the woods to catch a glimpse of the lupine.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Yup. Move over pub crawl. Here comes the wolf howl. As a non-clandestine activity. The\u00a0Friends of Algonquin Park<\/a>\u00a0organization actually holds these as scheduled events<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wolf howling expeditions take place only on Thursdays in August, or in September before Labour Day, when weather and accessible wolves permit. We have a slide talk on wolf ecology and our changing perceptions of this elusive animal; event protocol is provided; and then we travel by car (on rare occasions, we walk) to a place where wild wolves may answer the imitations given by the Naturalist staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the Post article, “one August” this activity was once picked up by NORAD as an unidentified – something – that warranted a closer look.<\/p>\n

Security personnel stared at their computer screens wondering what on Earth they were looking at. They called Canadian defence headquarters in Ottawa. Everyone breathed easier when they learned it was a cavalcade of 500 cars moving bumper-to-bumper through Algonquin Park on a wolf howl.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure I believe that account. (Did NORAD confirm this?) But perhaps it happened that way. It makes a good story, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Here’s a video from Global news 16×9<\/a> about wolf howl events in Algonquin Park from 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Poking around the Internet, one can find various wolf howl type events in a number of places from Missouri<\/a>\u00a0and North Carolina<\/a> to South Salem New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s more about actual wolf howls<\/a> from PBS’s Nova.<\/p>\n

Are there wolves where you live? When do you hear their howls?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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