Learn various ways wolves communicate with howls, scent markings, and body language at Howl Night at 7 p.m., Saturday, June 22, at Wolf Mountain Nature Center, located at 562 Hopkins Crandall Road.

This time of year, the sound of a wolf howl piercing the night can really send shivers up your spine. But that call of the wild isn’t meant to scare you; it’s actually a message to other ...

Wolves yelp, bark and howl at night to commmunicate, establish territories, and even to show affection. They do not actually howl at the moon, although that romanticized vision was cited by many ...

And they all leave learning more about wolves. “a lot of people have this misconception that they’re howling at the moon,” she says, “Probably not, they are howling to talk to each other.