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Wolf Island
The world's leading wolf expert describes the first
years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of
nature's most iconic creatures In the late 1940s, a small
pack of wolves crossed the ice of Lake Superior to the island
wilderness of Isle Royale, creating a perfect \"laboratory\" for a
long-term study of predators and prey. As the wolves hunted and
killed the island's moose, a young graduate student named Dave Mech
began research that would unlock the mystery of one of nature's
most revered (and reviled) animals-and eventually became an
internationally renowned and respected wolf expert. This is the
story of those early years.
Wolf Island recounts three extraordinary summers and
winters Mech spent on the isolated outpost of Isle Royale National
Park, tracking and observing wolves and moose on foot and by
airplane-and upending the common misperception of wolves as
destructive killers of insatiable appetite. Mech sets the scene
with one of his most thrilling encounters: witnessing an aerial
view of a spectacular hunt, then venturing by snowshoe (against the
pilot's warning) to photograph the pack of hungry wolves at their
kill. Wolf Island owes as much to the spirit of adventure
as to the impetus of scientific curiosity. Written with science and
outdoor writer Greg Breining, who recorded hours of interviews with
Mech and had access to his journals and field notes from those
years, the book captures the immediacy of scientific fieldwork in
all its triumphs and frustrations. It takes us back to the
beginning of a classic environmental study that continues today,
spanning nearly sixty years-research and experiences that would
transform one of the most despised creatures on Earth into an icon
of wilderness and ecological health.
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Wolves
\"Describes how living in a family group helps wolves thrive in their environment. Life cycle, habitat, and interaction with people are explained\"--Provided by publisher.
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Societies of Wolves and Free-ranging Dogs
Wolves are charismatic emblems of wilderness. Dogs, which descended from wolves, are models of urbanity. Do free-ranging dogs revert to pack living or are their societies only reminiscent of a wolfish heritage? Focusing on behavioral ecology, this is the first book to assess societies of both gray wolves and domestic dogs living as urban strays and in the feral state. It provides a comprehensive review of wolf genetics, particularly of New World wolves and their mixture of wolf, coyote and dog genomes. Spotte draws on the latest scientific findings across the specialized fields of genetics, sensory biology, reproductive physiology, space use, foraging ecology and socialization. This interdisciplinary approach provides a solid foundation for a startling and original comparison of the social lives of wolves and free-ranging dogs. Supplementary material, including a full glossary of terms, is available online at www.cambridge.org/9781107015197.
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Wolves
Wolves are some of the world's most charismatic and controversial animals, capturing the imaginations of their friends and foes alike. Highly intelligent and adaptable, they hunt and play together in close-knit packs, sometimes roaming over hundreds of square miles in search of food. Once teetering on the brink of extinction across much of the United States and Europe, wolves have made a tremendous comeback in recent years, thanks to legal protection, changing human attitudes, and efforts to reintroduce them to suitable habitats in North America.
As wolf populations have rebounded, scientific studies of them have also flourished. But there hasn't been a systematic, comprehensive overview of wolf biology since 1970. In Wolves, many of the world's leading wolf experts provide state-of-the-art coverage of just about everything you could want to know about these fascinating creatures. Individual chapters cover wolf social ecology, behavior, communication, feeding habits and hunting techniques, population dynamics, physiology and pathology, molecular genetics, evolution and taxonomy, interactions with nonhuman animals such as bears and coyotes, reintroduction, interactions with humans, and conservation and recovery efforts. The book discusses both gray and red wolves in detail and includes information about wolves around the world, from the United States and Canada to Italy, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Israel, India, and Mongolia. Wolves is also extensively illustrated with black and white photos, line drawings, maps, and fifty color plates.
Unrivalled in scope and comprehensiveness, Wolves will become the definitive resource on these extraordinary animals for scientists and amateurs alike.
\"An excellent compilation of current knowledge, with contributions from all the main players in wolf research. . . . It is designed for a wide readership, and certainly the language and style will appeal to both scientists and lucophiles alike. . . . This is an excellent summary of current knowledge and will remain the standard reference work for a long time to come.\"—Stephen Harris, New Scientist
\"This is the place to find almost any fact you want about wolves.\"—Stephen Mills, BBC Wildlife Magazine
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Among Wolves
Alaska's wolves lost their fiercest advocate, Gordon Haber, when
his research plane crashed in Denali National Park in 2009.
Passionate, tenacious, and occasionally brash, Haber, a former
hockey player and park ranger, devoted his life to Denali's wolves.
He weathered brutal temperatures in the wild to document the wolves
and provided exceptional insights into wolf behavior. Haber's
writings and photographs reveal an astonishing degree of
cooperation between wolf family members as they hunt, raise pups,
and play, social behaviors and traditions previously unknown. With
the wolves at risk of being destroyed by hunting and trapping, his
studies advocated for a balanced approach to wolf management. His
fieldwork registered as one of the longest studies in wildlife
science and had a lasting impact on wolf policies. Haber's field
notes, his extensive journals, and stories from friends all come
together in Among Wolves to reveal much about both the
wolves he studied and the researcher himself. Wolves continue to
fascinate and polarize people, and Haber's work continues to
resonate.
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Societies of wolves and free-ranging dogs
\"Wolves are charismatic emblems of wilderness. Dogs, which descended from wolves, are models of urbanity. Do free-ranging dogs revert to pack living or are their societies only reminiscent of a wolfish heritage? Focusing on behavioral ecology, this is the first book to assess societies of both gray wolves and domestic dogs living as urban strays and in the feral state. It provides a comprehensive review of wolf genetics, particularly of New World wolves and their mixture of wolf, coyote and dog genomes. Spotte draws on the latest scientific findings across the specialized fields of genetics, sensory biology, reproductive physiology, space use, foraging ecology and socialization. This interdisciplinary approach provides a solid foundation for a startling and original comparison of the social lives of wolves and free-ranging dogs. Supplementary material, including a full glossary of terms, is available online at www.cambridge.org/9781107015197\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Evolution of facial muscle anatomy in dogs
Domestication shaped wolves into dogs and transformed both their behavior and their anatomy. Here we show that, in only 33,000 y, domestication transformed the facial muscle anatomy of dogs specifically for facial communication with humans. Based on dissections of dog and wolf heads, we show that the levator anguli oculi medialis, a muscle responsible for raising the inner eyebrow intensely, is uniformly present in dogs but not in wolves. Behavioral data, collected from dogs and wolves, show that dogs produce the eyebrow movement significantly more often and with higher intensity than wolves do, with highest-intensity movements produced exclusively by dogs. Interestingly, this movement increases paedomorphism and resembles an expression that humans produce when sad, so its production in dogs may trigger a nurturing response in humans. We hypothesize that dogs with expressive eyebrows had a selection advantage and that “puppy dog eyes” are the result of selection based on humans’ preferences.
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