The Ellesmere Wolves - Behavior and Ecology in the High Arctic

The Ellesmere Wolves: Behavior and Ecology in the High Arctic



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L. David Mech (et al.) | 2025 | ISBN: 0226833747 | English | 208 pages | ePUB | 4 MB

In a fascinating story of discovery and science, we meet a remote population of wolves unafraid of humans.

For parts of twenty-four summers, wolf biologist L. David Mech lived with a group of wolves on Ellesmere Island, some six hundred miles from the North Pole. Elsewhere, most wolves flee from even the scent of humans, but these animals, evolving relatively free from human persecution, are unafraid. Having already spent twenty-eight years studying other populations of wolves more remotely by aircraft, snow-tracking, live-trapping, and radio-tracking, Mech was primed to join their activities up close and record their interactions with each other. This book tells the remarkable story of what Mech—and the researchers who followed him—have learned while living among the wolves.