The Company of WolvesAs wolves return to their old territory in Yellowstone National Park, their presence is reawakening passions as ancient as their tangled relations with human beings. This authoritative and eloquent book coaxes the wolf out from its camouflage of myth and reveals the depth of its kinship with humanity, which shares this animal's complex complex social organization, intense family ties, and predatory streak. |
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... thing for us to do is don't complain, don't say anything, and just take care of these wolves ourselves. That's what we did. We got poison.” They injected tallow or pieces of moose liver with strychnine and put it on the ice of a winter ...
... thing for us to do is don't complain, don't say anything, and just take care of these wolves ourselves. That's what we did. We got poison.” They injected tallow or pieces of moose liver with strychnine and put it on the ice of a winter ...
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... things changed suddenly. One overcast, ten-degree February morning in 1982, rangers Jerry Desanto and Steve Frye skied out from a patrol cabin in the northwest corner of Glacier National Park and crossed the fresh tracks of two wolves ...
... things changed suddenly. One overcast, ten-degree February morning in 1982, rangers Jerry Desanto and Steve Frye skied out from a patrol cabin in the northwest corner of Glacier National Park and crossed the fresh tracks of two wolves ...
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... things continually interesting. Death is the possibility of change. Every individual gets its allotted lifespan, its opportunity to introduce change through mutation or culture, its chance to try something new on the world. But time is ...
... things continually interesting. Death is the possibility of change. Every individual gets its allotted lifespan, its opportunity to introduce change through mutation or culture, its chance to try something new on the world. But time is ...
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... things but to chase things. Dog skulls tell yet more about evolution's choices. Cats are shorter-muzzled and have, for the size of their jaws, a more powerful bite than dogs. A lion, for instance, can bite through the neck of a buffalo ...
... things but to chase things. Dog skulls tell yet more about evolution's choices. Cats are shorter-muzzled and have, for the size of their jaws, a more powerful bite than dogs. A lion, for instance, can bite through the neck of a buffalo ...
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... things wolf defenders said weren't true, either. He maintained that wolves did kill more than the old and the weak, that they sometimes killed more than they would eat, and that they had indeed been known to make unprovoked attacks on ...
... things wolf defenders said weren't true, either. He maintained that wolves did kill more than the old and the weak, that they sometimes killed more than they would eat, and that they had indeed been known to make unprovoked attacks on ...
Contents
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IO The Persistence of Wolves | 216 |
Yellowstone | 239 |
I2 A Skirmish in Alaska | 267 |
WolfDogs | 296 |
I4 Looking for Spirit | 320 |
Bridging the Gap | 338 |
Appendixes | 346 |
Index | 361 |
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