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.

As a species, humans have a fascination and fear of bogeymen — and, sometimes apparently, bogey-animals. It was supposed to be a listening session about gray wolves in Minnesota, headed by 8th ...