Is food and disease the only two limiting factors on a given Wolf population within an ecosystem?..........Utah State researcher Dan MacNulty has determined that family groups of wolves compete with each other for space and resources, acting as self limiting agents on the overall Wolf Population................."Wolves are ultimately limited by is the amount of space they have to raise their pups in safety"

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Wolves will kill for more
 space, new USU study finds

By Amy Joi O'Donoghue

May 17th, 2014 @ 8:16pm

Dan Stahler, National Park Service