This week in science: California wolves, the world's bugs, and the earliest quasars
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DETROW: I mean, I guess my reaction, I'm not super surprised by that - right? - because that's the particular reason that ranchers have such stark feelings about wolves. Like, what am I missing?

BARBER: That's reasonable to think, but it's uncommon for livestock to be the primary food for these wolves. So Tina Saitone, the study's lead author, says in most states, wolves predominantly eat wild game.

TINA SAITONE: But when wolves come to a human-dominated landscape like California with very little prey, you're going to see a very different composition of prey.

ROTT: So in other words, you know, California doesn't have big populations of elk like Montana or Wyoming. We don't have as many deer as there are in the Midwest or the northwest.

DETROW: So the wolves just don't have a choice then. Is that it?

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