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Canine in the Wild |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / NATURE WALK |
| Author: Karen J. Donnelly |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 1,595 Words, 10,216 Characters |
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From Little Red Riding Hood to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to the proverbial "wolf at the door," our European-derived culture portrays the wolf as a big bad beast--an animal to be feared and hunted down before it destroys our livestock and kills us as well. The above Chippewa legend, by contrast, indicates that Native Americans regarded the gray wolf as almost next of kin. They admired the animal for its strength, bravery, keen intelligence, and loyalty to its pack. They knew how to live side by side with the wild animal, and they recounted tales that lauded its qualities.
Of course, the gray wolf inhabited the North American continent long before any humans did--for about 40 million years. Researchers believe that prior to the arrival of Columbus, somewhere between 425,000 and one million w...
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... the wolf continues in the wild.
Additional Reading
Additional Reading:Nancy Gibson, Wolves, Voyageur Press, Stillwater, Minnesota, 1996.
Bruce Hampton, The Great American Wolf, Henry Holt, New York, 1997.
L. David Mech, The Way of the Wolf, Voyageur Press, Stillwater, Minnesota, 1991.
On the Internet:http://www.wolf.org/http://www.awa.org/
http://ifw2es.fws.gov/MexicanWolf/
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