After reading the book review in the Minneapolis Paper suggested it as a Father's Day gift. Lo and behold the suggestion paid off and it was a good read. The Ellesmere Wolves: Behavior and Ecology in the High Arctic, L. David Mech, Morgan Anderson and H. Dean Cluff, is the book in question.
Ellesmere Island, about which I knew little, is that huge island in the high arctic of north east Canada. It's very close to Greenland and far from Alaska. Mech, sometimes accompanied by the other authors, spent 24 summers on the island studying the wolves. The wolves are almost tame because they have never been hunted. This gave Mech, and others, the opportunity to observe the wolves at close range. The only human habitations on the island are a small Canadian military base, a Canadian weather station and a small Inuit village. The weather station served the authors as their base. The weather station personnel provided much helpful information about the wolves when the authors were not on the island.
The book mixes between the reports of the authors, and others, interactions with the wolves and the scientific data gathered. Naturally the human wolf interactions were of most interest to me.
Takk for alt,
Al
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