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If you only see the wolf as an obstacle to the American Dream, to Manifest Destiny, then it’s going to be perfectly natural to destroy it—and since it is a foe to be beaten, not even a worthy enemy, it deserves no honor in death. A small population of perhaps one hundred survives in the swamp thickets of extreme south-eastern Texas and adjacent Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It seems possible that odors picked up in this way and carried to other pack members have some communicative function. In human terms, some are more aggressive or shyer or moodier, and pack society allows these individual temperaments to mature.The wolf's coat is remarkable, a luxurious fur consisting of two layers: a soft, light-colored, dense underfur that lies beneath a covering of long guard hairs which shed moisture and keep the underfur dry. The true success of this book is that for all the detail and information here, Lopez’s point is to emphasize what we don’t know. The latter point should be well taken: in the past, it was assumed that wolves were basely motivated and bloodthirsty; then in an environmentally enlightened age, it was suddenly assumed that they were noble and wise. David Mech, who studied wolves on Isle Royale and in Minnesota, found ‘ seventeen of his radio-collared wolves were killed by human beings. The argument in rebuttal; that wolves in captivity represent pure strains of extinct races and therefore constitute a genetic reservoir, is probably meaningless.

To fit into the universe, the Indian had to do two things simultaneously: be strong as an individual, and submerge his personal feelings for the good of the tribe. In the winter of 1976 an aerial hunter surprised ten gray wolves travelling on a ridge in the Alaska Range.The cold sits down like iron here, and the long hours of winder darkness cause us to leave a light on most of the day. The social structure of a wolf pack is dynamic—subject to change, especially during the breeding season—and may be completely reversed during periods of play. Lopez’s classic, careful study has won praise from a wide range of reviewers and improved the way books on wild animals are written. Another point where she used good detail was in the third paragraph when she described when she saw the water rising up and going down stream as “. The wolf stood two inches taller, was three inches longer in the leg, and eight inches longer in the body.