Science Current Event Blog (1st post)

Article Title: Are wolves the pronghorn's best friend?

In this article, the writer is describing the interaction between the wolves and the pronghorns. It is about the Wild Conservation Society's' research on the decline of the species of the pronghorns. What they found was that the wolves in Yellowstone National Park actually helped the pronghorns by killing the coyotes (the coyotes are the main animals that feed on the pronghorn). This research was done over a three-year period and the results were that 10 percent of the pronghorn fawns survived without the wolves and 34 percent of the fawns survived with the wolves. However, now that the wolves population increased since 1995, so has the population of the pronghorn. As a result, Yellowstone has less than 200 animals now.

In my opinion, I believe that the wolves are similar to the pronghorns best friend. However, this does effect the balance in the entire ecosystem. Basically, with more pronghorns around, the other animals that eat the same food as them have a less source of energy since the pronghorns are feasting on them. In addition, I believe that it is injustice of the Conservation Society to reduce the population of the other animals. Instead, they should be reducing the amount of pronghorns in the national park. But this also means to eliminate the amount of wolves in the environment as well. In conclusion, I srongly belive that the population of the pronghorns and wolves should decrease.