People actively hunt wolves to protect their livestock. But in some places wolves are being hunted towards extinction. Wolves are a critical keystone species in a healthy ecosystem. By regulating prey populations, wolves enable many other species of plants and animals to flourish. Without predators, such as wolves, the system fails to support a natural level of biodiversity. Just like beavers, wolves aide the ability for the forests and grasses to grow and water to accumulate. Wolves are importa

35K views · 1.2K reactions | “What we believe happened, and we have science to show some of this, is that wolves chose us. A population of wolves actually became attracted to humans,” Brian Hare, an evolutionary biologist, explains to Anderson Cooper. https://cbsn.ws/3XBwkeu | 60 Minutes | Facebook