PHOTO OF THE DAY December 16, 2004  

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Where Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
When 1997
Photographer Joel Sartore

"Why do wolves howl? It's their way of saying, 'This is our turf,' or, 'Where's the rest of our pack?' or, perhaps, 'We've found food.'"

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Return of the Gray Wolf," May 1998, National Geographic magazine)

(Text adapted from "Return of the Gray Wolf," May 1998, National Geographic magazine)


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