Talk:List of animals of Yellowstone

Reorganized article
I reorganized the article without much change in content to group the various types of animals logically and to include Birds and Small Mammals which were ommitted from the previous version. The article still needs some work to better sources some of the text and not rely 100% on the verbage from the NPS webpages.--Mike Cline (talk) 16:25, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Are There Foxes In Yellowstone?
I know there are no gray foxes, but are there red foxes? Thanks. Evancahill (talk) 03:17, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * None in the park according to NPS lists. Red Foxes are common at lower elevations (~4000 ft MSL or less) in open valleys and prairie in Montana, but there's really no areas at that elevation in the park. They primarily probably don't exist there because of the overall elevation of the park (mostly 6000ft +) --Mike Cline (talk) 21:07, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Yellowstone National Park has plenty of red foxes. Most foxes in the western U.S. inhabit mountain ranges. According to NPSpecies (irma.nps.gov/NPSpecies), they are common within the park. Wildernest42 (talk) 22:47, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

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This is less of a list than a summary of Yellowstone's animals. It should be renamed/moved to Animals of Yellowstone as opposed to List of animals of Yellowstone.Wildernest42 (talk) 23:08, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

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Wolf Update
In Article : "They currently exist in several packs, the largest of which are the Slough Creek, Yellowstone Delta, and Leopold packs."

Each of these packs are now defunct. The Slough Creek Pack disbanded in 2008-2009. The Yellowstone Delta (Formely known as the Soda Butte Pack until 2000) vanished in 2015 and finally the Leopold Pack, had no surviving members by the end of 2008. The latter pack, the first pack to naturally form in Yellowstone in more than 70 years [without human actions] (Wolf #2M from the Crystal Creek [which is now named the Mollie's Pack] and Wolf #7F from the Rose Creek Pack paired in February 1996, That is before the arrivals or the release of the 1996 reintroduction wolves. In 2008, as mange ranges throughout the Northern Range of Yellowstone as well as the third canine distemper outbreak in the Yellowstone Wolf Population, plus the intraspecific strifes that killed the dominant breeding male and possibly the dominant breeding female (Wolves #534M & #209F) made the pack dissolved. It is also to note that this pack was a very prolific pack and a stable one to add. The pack lifespan was February 1996 to at least September 15 2008 (With the death of 534M). They only had 3 dominant breeding females and 2 dominant breeding males of which only Wolf #259F had a reign of only 1 year. 7F and 2M reign was 7 years, 534M 6 years and 209F, 5 years. In 2008, the pack had 3 litters of pups, of which were counted 25 pups. They all had died by the end of the summer, from the canine distemper outbreak. 534M was killed by the Mount Everts Pack and 209F collar malfunctioned and she most likely died, perhaps even before 534M.

See the Yellowstone Wolf Project Annuals Reports of 1996, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2015 for these informations.

The Current Big Packs in Yellowstone are the Junction Butte Pack, The Wapiti Lake Pack and The 8-Mile Pack. The Leopold Pack Lineage flows abundantly in all 3 of these packs.

The Junction Butte Pack formed with a wolf known as "Big Blaze" or 838M. That wolf was born in the Druid Peak Pack in 2007 to the dominant breeding pair, 480M & 569F. 480M is the son of 7F and 2M. Big Blaze had also started the Blacktail Deer Plateau in late 2008 with 5 other males, including 302M (his uncle, then 8 year old) and his [838M's] siblings 778M (then known as "Big Brown"), "Middle Gray", "Small Blaze" and "High Sides". They paired with 4 females of the Agate Creek Pack : "Half-Tail", 642F, 692F and 693F. Of all these 10 wolves, only 302M and 642F were collared at the time.

A male born in the blacktail pack in 2011 who got the nickname "Puff" and later a collar number (911M in 2015), led the pack with another blacktail born male, wolf 890M (also known as "Patch") [this wolf is currently the dominant breeding male of the Mollie's Pack and the second oldest wolf in the park at 10 years of age).

Those two males were the breeders from 2012 to 2016. 8-Mile Born and Prospect Peak Born Males then joined the pack as breeders. The 8-Mile Pack entered the park in 2011, with 3 females born in the Quadrant Mountain Pack in the same litter in 2008. The Quadrant Pack Dominant breeding female in 2008 was 469F, and she is the daughter of 220F and 214M. 220F is the daughter of 7F & 2M. Those 3 females were known as "Red-Gray" [909F], 821F and "Third Sister".

909F led the 8-Mile Pack from 2011 to 2017. 821F dispersed with SW763M and "Third Sister" in 2014 and founded the Prospect Peak Pack. Wolves 996M, 1047M, 1048M and the current uncollared black alpha male of the Junction Butte Pack were born to 821F [996M, 1048M, UBJAM] or 909F [1047M].

The 8-Mile Pack is currently led by an uncollared black-brindle female that is known as "Brindle". She is the daughter of 909F.

The Wapiti Lake Pack formed with the union of the Wolves #755M and a 4 year old female from the Canyon Pack. The latter is the daughter of a wolf known as "The White Lady" or the Longtime Dominant Breeding Female of The Canyon Pack. The White Lady is the offspring of 541M and 540F. 541M was born in the Swan Lake Pack in 2001 to wolves 152F and 206M. 152F is the founding female of the Swan Lake Pack and she is the daughter of 7F and 2M.

That's a lot of stuff. Hard to explain the sources. Required an enormous of amount of lecture, knowledge, communication with yellowstone wolf team, and many other reliable sources.

Oh and the founding female of the Wapiti Pack is still the dominant breeding female. She is 11 years old now.

Gimly24 (talk) 17:40, 20 August 2021 (UTC)