{"id":7697,"date":"2019-06-26T12:39:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/?p=7697"},"modified":"2019-06-26T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:39:47","slug":"wolf-collared-after-fears-of-food-conditioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wolf-collared-after-fears-of-food-conditioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf collared after fears of food conditioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/food-conditioning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7869\" src=\"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/food-conditioning-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/food-conditioning-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/food-conditioning-191x100.jpg 191w, https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/food-conditioning.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Parks Canada collared a Bow Valley yearling female wolf on May 27 after concerns she was in danger of becoming food conditioned.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Whittington, a wildlife biologist with Banff National Park said the young gray coloured wolf had to be collared after they noticed she was acting indifferent towards people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier in the spring we received reports that she was hanging out in an area that was under construction and that she was acting totally indifferent towards people. When we collared her she was acting curious towards vehicles, but for the most part since we have collared her she has stayed out of highly used areas,\u201d said Whittington.<\/p>\n<p>She was fitted with a GPS collar near Tunnel Mountain campground so her movements could be monitored, and so that she can be hazed if she travels too close to high use areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know for sure if she was fed by people but certainly she was heading down that road. The wolves are maintaining their distance from people right now which is a good thing. Wolves need to be somewhat habituated to people to travel throughout the Bow Valley but if they become overly habituated to people then they are in danger of becoming food-conditioned; they can access garbage or people might try to feed the wolves,\u201d explained Whittington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce wolves, bears, foxes get a taste for human food it\u2019s very difficult to change their behavior so we are trying to get ahead of the game and make sure these wolves don\u2019t become food conditioned.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Source: Bow Valley Crag &amp; Canyon<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecragandcanyon.ca\/news\/local-news\/female-wolf-collared-and-under-watch-after-fears-of-food-conditioning\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parks Canada collared a Bow Valley yearling female wolf on May 27 after concerns she was in danger of becoming food conditioned. Jesse Whittington, a wildlife biologist with Banff National Park said the young gray coloured wolf had to be collared after they noticed she was acting indifferent towards people. \u201cEarlier in the spring we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18,14],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-7697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-news","category-wolf","category-wolfdoguk","tag-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7906,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions\/7906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}