“There’s not a shred of doubt in my mind,” said Gable, a University of Minnesota wolf biologist. Native Americans wove wolves into their traditions, with some people regarding wolves as kin. The reentry of wolves, though, didn’t appear to diminish the deer population enough to explain the full decrease in car collisions. Wolves use roads and trails “for basically the same reasons why people would use roads and trails,” Gable said. Leaning on wolf-movement research like Gable’s, economists Parker and Raynor developed a theory of why the presence of wolves was leading to fewer car collisions.

Source: Daily Sun January 05, 2026 02:24 UTC