Jeffrey T. Reed
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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A chorus howl is when a pack or family of wolves communicate as a group, often to signal that this is their territory.
A wolf from the pack is off-camera howling but being totally ignored by his pack mates until something happens.
As soon as the alpha female howled, the rest of the wolves looked at her, and the chorus began.
She was the conductor of this chorus.
And as it kicks off, the wolves come together in this mosh pit of dancing bodies, making different types of calls.
But some of the wolves, especially females, use a particular type of howl called a woa, and we think it's to strengthen family bonds.
It's a wolf's version of I love you, but it sounds like this.
The entire event lasts about 60 seconds, and then everybody goes about their business.
This is what a chorus howl looks like when 11 wolves from the same pack howl at the same time.
And I don't know about you, but to me, it looks like an angry doctor's signature, but not to the wolves.
We've learned that wolves from one pack can count or estimate the number of wolves howling in a rival pack without seeing them, and they make a decision.
If they're outnumbered,
They typically run for the hills.
If not, they often approach that rival pack.
We're using technology from Google DeepMind to see if we can count wolves just from audio recordings and improve census estimates of wildlife.
Now, wolves also bark, like your dog.
But unlike most dogs, wolves combine barks with other sounds into sentence-like structures.
And in this video, a female wolf uses a bark howl after being chased and nearly killed by a rival pack.
The barks and alarm, and loosely translated, mean stranger danger, and the modulated howl send backup.
These secretive devices are teaching us that wolves communicate a lot in close quarters.
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