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Wolves aren't so big and bad
Who’s afraid of a big bad wolf?
Nobody should be, according to
the “Wolfman.”
“There has not been one single
case of a healthy wolf attacking a
human in North America!” says
Dr. David Mech, a scientist with
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Dr. Mech probably knows more
about wolves than anybody else.
He’s been studying wolves for
about 25 years, and in fact, in
vented a radio transmitter collar
to track the animals’ movements
in the forests.
Using the radio transmitter
collar Dr. Mech learned that:
• Wolves hunt only for food and
may go as long as two weeks
between meals.
• There are only two to eight
wolves in most packs.
• They hunt mostly deer and
moose, and the prey caught are
usually the old, the very young, tl!e
sick, or the injured.
• When pups grow up, they often
stay with their parents as pack
members.
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• Every wolf in a pack has a
“rank” or place, and if a wolf with
low rank does not like its place, it
may leave to become a lone wolf or
find a mate to form a new pack.
Dogs and wolves are very closely
related, and pack members act
very similar to dogs. For instance,
after two pack members have been
separated for a while, they rush
together, lick each other’s faces,
and wag their tails.
Despite this similarity to dogs,
people are still frightened of
wolves, possibly, says Mech,
because of fairy tales like “Little
Red Riding Hood” and “Peter and
the Wolf,” which gave the wolf the
“bad guy” image.
The only real danger is not to
people, but to the wolves’ survival.
Although there are plenty of
timber wolves in Alaska and
Canada, there are only about 1,200
left in the “lower 48” states, most
of them in Minnesota.
Mech believes that the key to
saving the 1,200 wolves in the
“lower 48” is to save their habitat.
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this 4-H puzzle!
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