A Wolf’s Cry Wolves are misunderstood. Beautiful and wild, never able to be tamed, and the epitome of freedom. They only want to be accepted and loved for what they are. Now, here I stood, at the International Wolf Center, located in Ely, MN. Chubby, youthful faces pressed eagerly against the glass windows overlooking the enclosure. Their eyes were wide with wonder as they stared out across the meager, lightly wooded area. I found their giddiness contagious and soon, I too, scanned the woods for any movement or flash. Suddenly, I saw a furry face duck behind some high grasses growing near the pond. It emerged again suddenly and I could do nothing but gawk in awe. The large, gray wolf revealed itself to our prying gaze, but paid us little attention. Snagging a pair of binoculars from the bench beside me, I focused in on him. A hunk of flesh and hide lay at the wolf’s feet and he remained engrossed in his task. His sharp, serrated incisors made short work of the tough meat as he sliced through it. Every so often he would turn his muzzle and gnaw away at his meal with dull molars.
The coarse hair across his back appeared thick and dusted with a rust
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They had named the stuffed wolf Lucky, and kept him because of his interesting story. Though I do not recall all the details of his oppression, I remember that they had collared him in the wild to track his movement. At one point they lost the signal, and when they finally located him several months later, he had been found, ironically dead, near a retirement home parking lot. After performing an autopsy on his carcass, they determined the cause of death to be malnutrition. He had diminished, becoming scrawny and most likely living off of garbage scraps. This story saddened me deeply because I felt shame that a once perfect creature should waste away into nothingness. Now thoroughly troubled, I continued to roam the wolf center’s
When Mowat journeys to the tundra to research the wolves as the culprits for the massive caribou killings, he is surprised at how many people actually despise the wolves simply because they don’t understand them. In the beginning of the book Mowat starts to believe what everyone else did, that wolves were scary, dangerous animals. Little does he know that his first wolf encounter of his trip would be that night. “I do not know what went on in his massive skull, but my head was full of the most disturbing wrong thoughts” (Mowat 54). Since it was his first encounter with a wolf Mowat feels uneasy by the thought of being mauled by an alpha wolf. To his surprise the wolf was just as scared of him as he was of it and ran as fast as he could away. Mowat begins to realize that wolves are the scapegoats to the real reason the caribou population is declining. When Mowat meets Mike, a trapper living in Canada, Mike tells him some surprising information and says. “ ‘Every trapper got to...
slaughtered it, making sure that it left behind a pool of blood on the hard
Maughan, Ralph. "Overview and history of the central Idaho wolf reintroduction." September 25, 1999. visted: October 4, 1999. http://www.poky.srv.net/~jjmrm/wpages/idaho-o.htm
Part of the problem with the wolves now found in the Idaho wilderness is the fact that they are not native to Idaho, as the indigenous populations had all been nearly wiped out. These wolves are from Canada, and are much larger and stronger than those native to the state. Not only that, but the ...
The narrator alludes to three plausible legends involving the hunter, the witch, and the bride, who all encountered men who transformed into wolves. She references possible explanations for this phenomenon, citing the Devil tra...
These [the wolves] could no longer find their usual prey of lambs and sheep since the farms were burnt down, so they gathered in hungry packs and howled round the city walls. At night time they would steal into the city itself and fall upon men asleep on their cards in the open halls, and on women and children too. (qtd. Nolthenius 44)
The setting takes place in the Barren Land of northeast Canada (Simms). When Mowat arrives he is faced with the many challenges of this brutal climate. The wolves are already adapted to these circumstances and have evolved to endure the climate. Human’s on the other hand have not making them inferior to animals. This would be assumed as common knowledge but Mowat still makes the point to show this throughout his work. In the spring time when the weather changed the cabin was ruined by the flooding that washed in the ruins the fourteen huskies had built up all winter long. “… [T]he cabin had lost its charm, for the debris on the floor was a foot thick and somewhat repellent” (52). Mowat is then hindered by this for a while after it occurred. The wolves on the other hand never had this problem and lived much simpler. In the fight to survive easily in nature the wolves come out to be much more superior to humans. Humans assume with their complex brains and evolved technology they are better than animals. What Mowat was trying to make explicit was that wolves live an even easier life in nature without the help of
As seen when see when the boar runs away, “He held out his arm. ‘Look.’ He turned his left forearm for them all to see. On the outside was a rip; not much, but bloody. ‘He did that with his tusks.
the man ate like a dog, and it showed that he must have been very
On page seventy two the author said “The wolves of wolf house bay, and, by inference at least, all the barren land wolves who were raising families outside the summer caribou range, were living largely, if not almost entirely, on mice.” As far as Farley was concerned the wolves were definitely not the main cause of the rapid decline in caribou, in fact many things pointed strongly against that speculation. However, late in the story some of the locals went to Mowat with “proof that the wolves are killing the caribou, and what he saw was a grim scene, there were nearly twenty dead caribou spread across the ice. Most people jumped to the conclusion that the wolves were responsible, however upon further investigation Mowat concluded that this was the work of fur and deer traffickers who shot the caribou from their plane and took what they wanted. This is obviously not what people expected to hear, however this is a vital part to ensure the safety of the arctic wolf, in the Canadian
The proud fox, serving as the main point of focus and predator, seems delighted as he devours his prey. From the fluffiness of the fox’s tail, to the overall furriness look projecting
At least, that's where most of the pack had spent the night. The Alpha, a lean silver wolf with black markings upon his ears, paws, tail, and down his
The grey wolf, or canis lupus, is a carnivorous mammal. It eats the flesh of other animals including elk, bison and moose. For all you elk, bison, moose lovers, I'm sorry about those wolves. But for those wolf lovers, don't worry about the flesh and think about the "trickling effect," as the video stated. For those who don't know, elks eat nature. That includes the vegetation of the US and all of its beauty. Don't worry though because the wolves to the
The Creature That Opened My Eyes Sympathy, anger, hate, and empathy, these are just a few of the emotions that came over me while getting to know and trying to understand the creature created by victor frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. For the first time I became completely enthralled in a novel and learned to appreciate literature not only for the great stories they tell but also for the affect it could have on someones life as cliché as that might sound, if that weren’t enough it also gave me a greater appreciation and understanding of the idiom “never judge a book by its cover.” As a pimply faced, insecure, loner, and at most times self absorbed sophomore in high school I was never one to put anytime or focus when it came time
A little girl has went to bring her grandmother some cookies, as she walks through the woods she meets a wolf and tells the wolf where she is headed. The wolf then beats the girl to her house, eats the grandmother, and dresses up as her to trick Little Red Riding Hood before she arrives. When she gets there she notices her Grandmother looks different. When she is close enough to recognize it is no her grandmother, the wolf eats her. In reality we all know that wolves cannot speak and are not intelligent enough to trick a human, but the moral behind the story is where the facts come in. In reality we all know we should not talk to strangers, its very dangerous. The wolf represents people who may be charming, polite or, sweet but are still strangers but in real life these are the people children should watch out for the