Sound on: Listen to Wolves’ Iconic ‘Call of the Wild’ on a Trail Cam

If you’re in the right place at the right time, you might hear wolves’ iconic “call of the wild” from a distance. But have you ever seen a wolf howl? Thanks to a California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) trail cam, you can both hear and see wolves from the Yowlumni Pack howling into the night.

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The Yowlumni Pack is California’s southernmost pack of gray wolves (the only wolf species that lives in California). The pack lives in Tulare County in the greater Sequoia National Forest area. CDFW says the pack lives close to the Tule River Tribe. 

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Gray wolves are a recovering endangered species protected under the California Endangered Species Acts and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Endangered Species Act, according to CDFW. Humans drove the species out of the state in the 1920s, but gray wolves have been making a slow and steady comeback into the northern portion of California in recent years.

“California now has ten known wolf families, plus two or three groups of 2-3 wolves each which don’t yet qualify as packs,” wrote the Center for Biological Diversity in a LinkedIn post sharing the trail-cam footage.

Turn your volume up to hear wolves howling on a trail cam:

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