A female grey wolf who disappeared in 2003 is capturing researchers' attention. Who is Wolf 57?

She’s a female grey wolf who disappeared in 2003. Eighteen years later, her collar was found, hundreds of kilometres away. She’s captured researchers’ attention—this is why she deserves yours

Eva Holland

WENDY COLE WAS in her office in Kalispell, Mont., in December 2021 when a colleague told her that a man was at the front desk with an unusual request. He’d found a radio collar in the bush a short drive west of town, and he wanted to get it back to its owner. By its size, he figured it must have once been fitted on a wolf. It was that hunch that brought him to Cole’s office. She is a wolf and carnivore biologist who works for the Montana state government. She made her way out to the front entrance and got her first look at the collar. It was old, she guessed: its pale webbing was frayed and worn, and it was a VHF (very high frequency) radio collar,…

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