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In a 2001 article of The Canadian Historical Review entitled Never Cry Wolf: Science, Sentiment, and the Literary Rehabilitation of Canis Lupus, Karen Jones lauded the work as "an important chapter in the history of Canadian environmentalism" They can tell things such as whether a herd or a human is passing through the wolves' territory, the direction of travel, and more.īarry Lopez in his 1978 work Of Wolves and Men called the book a dated, but still good, introduction to wolf behaviour.

Local Eskimos ( Inuit) could interpret wolves' howls.

Since Arctic wolves often travel in a group, their best strategy is not to kill surplus prey, since the whole group can sate themselves on one or two large animals.

However, a group of wolves may successfully attack large prey from a number of positions.

The wolf would be at a disadvantage if it attacked large prey from behind, because the animal's powerful hind legs could injure the wolf.

A lone Arctic wolf has a better chance of killing small prey by running alongside it and attacking its neck.

Arctic wolves usually prey on Arctic ox, caribou, smaller mammals, and rodents-but since they rely on stamina instead of speed, it would be logical for the wolves to choose smaller prey instead of large animals like caribou, which are faster and stronger, and therefore a more formidable target.

Wolves that hunt a large herd animal would rather attack weaker, injured, or older animals, which helps rid the herd of members that slow its migration.

The main reason for declining population of caribou is human hunters from civilization.We have made it the scapewolf for our own sins." Mowat writes to expose the onslaught of wolfers and government exterminators who are out to erase the wolves from the Arctic. He concludes: "We have doomed the wolf not for what it is but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be: the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer-which is, in reality, not more than the reflected image of ourselves. Upon finding his quarry near Nueltin Lake, Mowat discovers that rather than being wanton killers of caribou, the wolves subsist quite heavily on small mammals such as rodents and hares, "even choosing them over caribou when available." In 1948–1949, the Dominion Wildlife Service assigned the author to investigate the cause of declining caribou populations and determine whether wolves are to blame for the shortage. In the book, Mowat describes his experiences in a first-person narrative that sheds light on his research into the nature of the Arctic wolf. It has been credited for dramatically changing the public image of the wolf to a more positive one. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1983. Never Cry Wolf is a fictional account of the author's subjective experience observing wolves in subarctic Canada by Farley Mowat, first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart.