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WolfQuest: A New Breed of Video Game!
by Grant Spickelmier
This description might seem like something from the journal
entries of an experienced wolf researcher or possibly the story
line created for a new IMAX documentary. Instead, this scenario
is played out everyday firsthand by thousands of youths playing
WolfQuest, a new educational video game available for free
download from the Internet.
Eastern Coyote: Coyote, Wolf, or Hybrid?
by Jonathan G. Way
Eastern coyotes (coyotes living in northeastern North America)
have been an enigma to scientists and laypeople for many years.
This coyote started to appear in northern New England and New
York in the 1930s and 1940s and currently inhabits all of the
northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, ranging from
wilderness to urban areas. The animals are often described as a
big version of a coyote or a small wolf, and many northern New
Englanders still call them coy-dogs.
The Mixed Legacy of Never Cry Wolf
by Steve Grooms
For better or worse, the most popular book written on wolves is
Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf. First published in 1963, Mowat's
slim memoir about observing wolves in northern Manitoba has been
translated into many languages and now has sales of many millions
of copies. Like To Kill a Mockingbird and Anne Frank's diary,
Never Cry Wolf has attained iconic status as a classic with special
appeal to young people. It continues to be taught in schools nearly
half a century after its initial publication and was even made
into a Hollywood movie.
by Marc Anderson
Now two months into the job of executive director of the
International Wolf Center, I am finding it very exciting with many
good challenges ahead. Previously, I was the executive director
of two environmental organizations for six years each and of a
national trade association of small-business owners. I then spent
10 years consulting with a variety of nonprofits, mostly
conservation and environmental groups. The activities and plans
of the Center are always growing, and I will share just a few
here.
The Process of Forming an "Ambassador" Wolf Pack
by Lori Schmidt, Wolf Curator, International Wolf Center
Visitors to the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota, or
to the Center's Web site at www.wolf.org are familiar with the
Exhibit Pack, comprised of four gray wolves: two arctic subspecies
and two Great Plains subspecies. The Center's wolves are spayed
and neutered, so pups must be acquired from another source.
Obviously, the arctic and Great Plains subspecies and the new
pups are not genetically related, so how do they come to form a pack?
by Cornelia Hutt
WOLVES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
WOLVES IN IRAQ
It turns out, the danger menacing Iraqis in that doomsday headline
isn't really all that new. In fact, it has been around for centuries.
The unpredictable, ferocious, bloodthirsty enemy described in the
article is . . . the "Arabian" wolf.
WOLVES IN IRAN
Two Tales of Two Wolves
These two stories might sound like wildly implausible modern
fables-but they aren't. They are true right down to and including
the surprise endings. Both of these events were reported recently
by researcher Amir Mahdi Ebrahimi, who studies wolves in northwestern
Iran. Wolves in this vast and diverse country are not legally
protected, and rural people in particular have no tolerance for
predators. The village where the wolves fell into the well is
located near Shahre Kord in central Iran. The second wolf was
pulled from the Zangmar River in northwestern Iran near the city
of Maku.
WOLVES IN SCANDINAVIA
"Far Traveler"
Except in late spring and during summer, when social activities
are centered on raising pups, a wolf pack travels far and wide to
hunt and patrol its territory. Lone wolves travel, too. Youngsters
practice independence by hunting alone for small prey. Dispersers
leave the natal pack to find mates and unoccupied space to raise
families of their own. Capable of moving along at a ground-eating
pace of 5 - 7 miles per hour depending on the terrain, the great
predators are easily able to travel up to 45 miles in 24 hours.
Supremely adapted for their nomadic lives, wolves have narrow
chests and long, slender legs enabling them to maintain a steady
trot for long distances.
A Fowl Day on Little Sag
Text and photos by Steven Spickerman
An article on the BBC News World Service caught my eye this past
winter: "Wolves taking to the water to hunt waterfowlÑbehavior
that has never been seen before." Noted wolf expert L. David Mech
said, "I''d never seen wolves trying to catch waterfowl before
and this was interesting to see." And the memories came flooding
in to me like a northern river at ice-out.
Harvesting Wolves in Small Populations: Can It Be Done?
by Richard P. Thiel
With gray wolves in small populations scattered within a
half-dozen states hugging the Canadian border and now removed from
the federal endangered species list, is it possible to hunt and
trap wolves without endangering them again? Pressure has been
building in several states to do so.
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