In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking for two missing wolves. “They’re just gone. And that’s implausible because wolves don’t just disappear.”

Thomas McNamee’s book is The Killing of Wolf Number Ten.

This episode was originally released in 2020.

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