The Japan Wolf Association says returning wolves to the wild would help curb costly agricultural damage by deer, wild boar and monkeys A plan to reintroduce wolves to Japan more than a century after ...

Japan is deploying robot wolves in bear-prone areas to help keep the animals away after a spate of deadly attacks. The so-called Monster Wolf, developed by Hokkaido-based precision machining company ...

Amid the tranquil landscapes of Japan, where the haunting howls of real wolves fell silent in the echoes of the past, an eerily familiar sound now resounds. "You're not getting away with this!" warns ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Powered by solar energy, the admittedly frightful Monster Wolf was designed to minimize "friction between residents and bears." It ...

To address the growing issue of wild bears encroaching into their territory, the town of Takikawa in Japan has adopted an unconventional approach. The small village has widely installed robot wolves.

In this study, we determined nine genomes of Japanese wolves and 11 genomes of modern Japanese dogs at high coverage and analyzed with one hundred dog and wolf genomes in the public database. The ...

Japan is deploying robot wolves in bear-prone areas to help keep the animals away after a spate of deadly attacks. The so-called Monster Wolf, developed by Hokkaido-based precision machining company ...