Tag: wolf howl
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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?
There are few sounds more haunting than the howl of a pack of wolves in the dead of night. It makes the hair on the back of our necks stand up! But are these creatures really the “big bad wolves” we remember from bedtime stories?
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Howling with the wolves at Bonnechere Provincial Park
Today’s post comes to us from MacKenzie Schmidt, Discovery Program Coordinator for our Algonquin Zone. For centuries, wolves have captured our imagination and wonder. Tolstoy wrote about them, biologists have studied them in earnest, and campers staying at Ontario Parks have had the opportunity to howl to them during public wolf howls since the 1960s. In…
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Wolf Howls at Algonquin
Please note: Wolf Howl will not be offered during the 2021 season. For more than 50 years, we’ve called the wolves every Thursday in August. Since the Algonquin Provincial Park Wolf Howls started in 1963, more than 150,000 visitors have spent summer evenings listening to the wolves’ haunting harmonies.