![]() ![]() Teamwork is needed to bag large prey like moose, but Peters is the first to admit that what may look like high-level strategy and planning may also come about fortuitously. He confirms much of what has been said about the intimacy of family relationships, the existence of ""lone wolves,"" and territorial behavior, and adds details of mating and prey behavior. In one or another way, Peters was able to follow a few individual animals over several seasons, in particular a female named Freya, her pups and successive mates. His years of observation entailed capturing wolves for radio collaring, tracking them in low-flying Cessnas or over ground, and even romping with a few animals penned near their living quarters. He favored the notion that they used cognitive maps-mental images of their territories-aided by scent-marked boundaries and natural landmarks like rocks. Peters became interested in how wolves keep track of their terrain as a grad student in psychology. ![]() A fresh-eyed, semi-fictionalized account of wolf-watching in Michigan's Upper Peninsula-aimed at erasing the big-bad-wolf image (like Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf and other journals and studies). ![]()
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