{"id":8176,"date":"2026-10-03T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/?p=8176"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:57:10","slug":"wolves-did-not-save-yellowstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/8176","title":{"rendered":"<svg class=\"svg-icon svg-icon-link\" aria-labelledby=\"title-6ac739c108b11\" role=\"img\"><title id=\"title-6ac739c108b11\">Link<\/title> <use href=\"#link\" xlink:href=\"#link\"><\/use> <\/svg>8176"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-wolves-yellowstone-desperate.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Wolves did not save Yellowstone\u2014why were we so desperate to believe they did?\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/10\/yellowstone-wolf-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x999 size-150x999\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/10\/yellowstone-wolf-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/10\/yellowstone-wolf-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/10\/yellowstone-wolf-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/10\/yellowstone-wolf-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/10\/yellowstone-wolf-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/10\/yellowstone-wolf-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/10\/yellowstone-wolf-1600x1067.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Wolves did not save Yellowstone\u2014why were we so desperate to believe they did?<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">[Scientists] have found that this linear chain of causes and effects is an oversimplification of ecology. Wolves eat elk, yes, but so do humans, bears and mountain lions. [Additionally,] feeding takes priority in elk behavior: Hungry animals will seek good grazing, predators or no predators.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14097],"tags":[29737,28603,33466,30289],"class_list":["post-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-english","tag-conservation","tag-ecology","tag-george-monbiot","tag-yellowstone","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8178,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions\/8178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}