The howl of a wolf in the wilderness may make your spine tingle — it has a similar effect on wolf conservationists, who have struggled for years to accurately analyze the sounds that wolves make.

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.

By using sound to track wolf movements and locations, we can develop suggested mitigation measures to reduce wolf–livestock interactions. Since the acoustic devices also recorded barking dogs and ...