![]() Having declined to specialize in any particular biological area Mowat was singularly qualified for random government work, and so was recruited for the quest, which ultimately led to his book Never Cry Wolf. It had become necessary to decimate the wolf population, said the hunters, and so Ottawa decided to investigate.įarley Mowat was a recent graduate in the field of biology. ![]() ![]() The hunters relied on the herds of caribou for food, not only for themselves but also for the dogs that made their lives possible, and over the last few years the migrating herds seemed to have shed thousands of members. These beasts weren’t even hunting for food, they were killing them for fun. It was reported by hunters and farmers that wolves were slaughtering livestock by the thousands, eating hundreds of people per year, and were solely responsible for the severe declination of the hunters’ prized kill, the caribou. At the end of the 1940s a massive wolf problem had developed in northern Canada. ![]()
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