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A wolf's long journey

Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. Gray wolf crossing an eastern European forest edge; distant industrial structure is only a broad visual reference to the study region.

A gray wolf fitted with a radio collar leaving a release crate. Original page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_gray_wolf_fitted_with_a_radio_collar_is_released_into_the_wild.jpg. Author credited as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; public domain as a U.S. federal government work. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The image illustrates radio-collar research generally and is not the wolf from study 1.

Gray wolf (*Canis lupus*) in snow. Original page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canis_lupus.jpg. Photograph by Bernard Landgraf, own work, 2005; CC BY-SA 3.0. Attribution: “Bernard Landgraf, CC BY-SA 3.0”; license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Retrieved from the original 800 × 533 JPEG; no edits.

AI-generated conceptual scene of a lone wolf with a faint dotted trail and two far-apart location markers.

AI-generated illustration of a field observer watching a wolf from a distance, to represent wildlife tracking work generally.

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Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. Gray wolf crossing an eastern European forest edge; distant industrial structure is only a broad visual reference to the study region.

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Young wolves may leave their natal pack to look for a mate and a place to live. In one study, a young male wearing a GPS collar was recorded 369 km from the center of its previous range 21 days after dispersal began. This is the distance between recorded points, not the length of every bend in its route. Long gaps in the collar data meant researchers could not determine where the wolf eventually settled.