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These were the first cloned calves, the first cloned grey wolves, and then, finally, the first cloned piglets: Alexis, Chista, Carrel, Janie and Dotcom.
It goes back to the '40s and '50s, research on wolves, and basically the definition is very simple.
A trophic cascade is an ecological process which starts at the top of the food chain and tumbles all the way down to the bottom, and the classic example is what happened in the Yellowstone National Park in the United States when wolves were reintroduced in 1995.
Now, we all know that wolves kill various species of animals, but perhaps we're slightly less aware that they give life to many others.
Before the wolves turned up, they'd been absent for 70 years.
But as soon as the wolves arrived, even though they were few in number, they started to have the most remarkable effects.
And beavers, like wolves, are ecosystem engineers.
The wolves killed coyotes, and as a result of that, the number of rabbits and mice began to rise, which meant more hawks, more weasels, more foxes, more badgers.
Ravens and bald eagles came down to feed on the carrion that the wolves had left.
Bears fed on it too, and their population began to rise as well, partly also because there were more berries growing on the regenerating shrubs, and the bears reinforced the impact of the wolves by killing some of the calves of the deer.
The wolves changed the behavior of the rivers.
The rivers changed in response to the wolves, and the reason was that the regenerating forests stabilized the banks so that they collapsed less often, so that the rivers became more fixed in their course.
So the wolves, small in number, transformed not just the ecosystem of the Yellowstone National Park, this huge area of land, but also its physical geography.
And when you look at it like that, you think, wait a minute, here are the wolves changing the physical geography of the Yellowstone National Park.
Now, faced with opportunities like that, does it not seem a little unambitious to be thinking only of bringing back wolves, lynx, bears, beavers, bison, boar, moose, and all the other species which are already beginning to move quite rapidly across Europe?
They would say wolves.
He says, "No, no, no, you don't understand, I have been defending my flock against lions and wolves for years.
He's spent his entire career using a sling to defend his flock against lions and wolves.
For generations at that point, the bear had been a shorthand for all the danger that people were encountering on the frontier, and the federal government was actually systematically exterminating bears and lots of other predators too, like coyotes and wolves.
In one 10-year period, close to half a million wolves had been slaughtered.
We can choose to have more wolves.
But we see other animals and we say, "Oh look, killer whales, wolves, elephants: that's not how they see it."
People came by the thousands to see the wolves, the most accessibly visible wolves in the world.
And I went there and I watched this incredible family of wolves.
If you look at fire pits from 10,000 years ago, you'll see raccoons, you'll see, you know, wolves, you'll see all kinds of different creatures.
So what happens with this stuff is, we started breeding wolves thousands of years ago in central Asia to turn them into dogs.
And in fact, I took a look, and Banff National Park is doing all of the things I just listed: suppressing fire, having fire, radio-collaring wolves, reintroducing bison.
By nature, investigative reporters are lone wolves.
There are wolves again in Europe, and the wolves are moving west across the continent.
When white men commit acts of violence in the US, they're lone wolves, mentally ill or driven by a parking dispute.
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