Introduction: Why is it important? .
Humans, in the western world, have always shown animosity and fear towards wolves. Childhood stories such as "The little Red Riding Hood" reflect the haunting fear of wolves at the time as vicious and efficient killers. Although these wolves appear menacing at times, there is no known record of human casualties from wolves in either Canada or the United States. In British Columbia, the wolves have been hunted, poisoned, and brutally killed for threatening the livestock and the game population in the area. As urbanization continues to increase, the wolves are being egregiously exterminated. Not only do wolves play a pivotal role in maintaining the environment's food chain, but they can also teach us the importance of loyalty and social structure. Without wolves in British Columbia, the demise of the inexplicable link between nature and humans seem imminent. Wolves are one of the critical species to the environment in maintaining balance and harmony in nature. With the onslaught of industrialization and the increase in the human population, wolves are in danger of extinction. .
This project focuses on the general understanding of wolves, including environmental significance, to search for a way of preventing their demise. To understand wolves more critically and beneficially, the project will touch upon the origin and evolution, physical characteristics, and their social behavior, and most importantly the wolves' relationship with humans and the environment. .
II. General Understanding .
1. Origins and Evolution .
Many biologists speculate that wolves descended from primitive carnivore known as creodonts. They were a smaller version of the modern day dogs and first appeared 52 million years ago. As creodonts evolved, they slowly transformed into the first canid species called the dawn-wolf, a possible descendent of the feline species. Robert Wayne from the University of California strongly believes that a number of wolf like canid species branched off from the common ancestor, creodonts, two million years ago.
Placement zoos-where wolves aren't popular-are difficult. ... Wolves display a variety of temperaments and psychological quirks like humans. ... Wolves and humans have always had a troubled relationship. ... The wolves helped themselves to the abundant prey and vast territory they found there. ... It honors me to belong to this tribe and be a part of bringing back the wolves. ...
Wolves also have a well-studied and defined social order. ... These young wolves who are leaving in search of mates and territory are called dispersing wolves (Gese and Mech 1991). If these wolves manage to find a mate, they will begin the cycle all over again, and within a couple years, a new pack will be formed from their offspring and possible lone wolves accepted into the pack as beta wolves. ... Omega wolves tend to become the focus of the other wolves aggression. ... These experiments were all done on wolves in captivity. ...
Wolves in Yellowstone Wolves used to roam all over North America. ... People began to kill wolves. ... These wolves would produce approximately 300 wolves. ... The FWS has released a total of 41 wolves into the Yellowstone area and 35 wolves into central Idaho. ... The Yellowstone population approaches 100 wolves and the central Idaho has grown to about 70 wolves. ...
Wolves live in packs, which normally have around six or seven wolves (wolf in Alaska). ... In the mainland of Alaska, the wolves eat moose and caribou. ... Seven thousand and five hundred wolves were killed each year through legal hunting and trapping (Alaska's wolves). The wolves were also cruelly poisoned and trapped, entire wolf packs were wiped out by the federal government (Alaska's wolves). The main threat to wolves was the loss of habitat (song). ...
Wolves were driven to near extinction by man and need to be brought back. ... Gibson wrote the article, "The New War on Wolves."" ... Wolves were driven to near extinction in the early 1900's. ... The delisting of wolves tells how many Americans want to see these wolves killed. ... The states where these wolves are living in do not want the wolves there for reasons he believes are not valid. ...
"Dances With Wolves" was based on a historical period with some modifications and it proved to be interesting. ... Dances With Wolves is so angered that he tells Kicking Bird that the white man won't stop coming. ... Dances With Wolves goes back to his fort to get his journal where he finds that others have come and they seize him. ... On their way to Hayes the Sioux ambush them and free Dances With Wolves. ... The movie ends here with Dances With Wolves and Stands With Fists In Air riding on horseback up a snowy path. ...
The improper hunting left only 6 wolves remaining in the wild. ... As a result wolf hunts took place in November and December that killed Twenty-two wolves. ... Overpopulation can be a disaster in terms of other species becoming endangered from the wolves eating up their resources of food, famer's losing livestock, and wolves becoming a danger to the public. ... Relocation of some of the wolves to less populated areas of the state, and take the necessary step to contain problem wolves that affect the public and their lively hoods. ... There needs to be strict guide lines in place limi...
Lola Olowude ENG 101/034 10/31/03 DANCES WITH WOLVES: CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS Dances With Wolves is the story of the "transformation" of Lieutenant John Dunbar, a Union Army Officer, to Dances With Wolves, a Lakota warrior. ... He gradually earns the respect of these native people who rename him Dances With Wolves and he sheds his white ways in acceptance of their way of life. ... Dances With Wolves was the most celebrated American film of 1990s. ... Dances With Wolves is a work of imagination that is so startlingly close to reality. ... This study feature...
"Two Observations" In the essays "Observing Wolves" and "First Observations", we are taken into the minds of two writer's perspective on their animal subjects. ... In "Observing Wolves", Farley Mowatt expressed care and caution but trying not to get in the way of the wolves so as not to disturb "the even tenor of their lives too much" (237). ... In "Observing Wolves", the narrator focused more on his feelings in relationship to the animals. His observations were more light-hearted, yet there was an underlying intensity shown in his admiration of the wolves and his eagerness to identi...
