The wolf population at Isle Royale National Park in Michigan has reached a historic low, with only three members of the group remaining alive – just one-third the amount that were spotted in 2014, according to wildlife experts from Michigan Technical University.
The 57th annual report on the park’s wolf and moos populations, which was released last Friday, also found that there is an estimated 1,250 moose that live on the island, and that a pair of wolves visited the area before trekking across an ice bridge to the mainland, the researchers said.
The Isle Park survey is the longest-running predator-prey study in the US, they added, and this year’s report highlights a growing chasm between the predators and the prey that Michigan Tech scientists said that they have been closely monitoring over the previous four years.
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