A Wolf’s Cry Wolves are misunderstood. Beautiful and wild, never able to be tamed, and the epitome of freedom. They only want to be accepted and loved for what they are. Now, here I stood, at the International Wolf Center, located in Ely, MN. Chubby, youthful faces pressed eagerly against the glass windows overlooking the enclosure. Their eyes were wide with wonder as they stared out across the meager, lightly wooded area. I found their giddiness contagious and soon, I too, scanned the woods for any movement or flash. Suddenly, I saw a furry face duck behind some high grasses growing near the pond. It emerged again suddenly and I could do nothing but gawk in awe. The large, gray wolf revealed itself to our prying gaze, but paid us little attention. Snagging a pair of binoculars from the bench beside me, I focused in on him. A hunk of flesh and hide lay at the wolf’s feet and he remained engrossed in his task. His sharp, serrated incisors made short work of the tough meat as he sliced through it. Every so often he would turn his muzzle and gnaw away at his meal with dull molars.
The coarse hair across his back appeared thick and dusted with a rust
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They had named the stuffed wolf Lucky, and kept him because of his interesting story. Though I do not recall all the details of his oppression, I remember that they had collared him in the wild to track his movement. At one point they lost the signal, and when they finally located him several months later, he had been found, ironically dead, near a retirement home parking lot. After performing an autopsy on his carcass, they determined the cause of death to be malnutrition. He had diminished, becoming scrawny and most likely living off of garbage scraps. This story saddened me deeply because I felt shame that a once perfect creature should waste away into nothingness. Now thoroughly troubled, I continued to roam the wolf center’s
slaughtered it, making sure that it left behind a pool of blood on the hard
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” ― H.P. Lovecraft. Fear drives mankind to hate what he cannot comprehend. With this irrational fear mankind is controlled and set on a path of destruction and chaos. In the autobiography Never Cry Wolf written by Farley Mowat, the main character (Farley Mowat), journeys to the Canadian tundra to study the much-feared wolf. There he discovers the fear brought upon by men, and how it can result horribly for the wolves. The human race was so frightened by the unknown species that they began to blame the wolves for cold slaughters, portrayed them as vicious killers, and because of the fear of the unknown tried to exterminate wolves all together.
Never cry Wolf is a book about Farley Mowat’s experiences throughout the Keewatin barrens. The central theme is “the truth lies behind the stories of society” Farley was informed of the dramatic decline of caribou and was told to prove that the wolves are responsible before his expedition, he and his superiors felt very educated on the behavior of wolves. On page nine the author stated “because their grievance is the complaint that the wolves are killing all the deer,and more and more of our fellow citizens are coming back from more and more hunts with less and less deer.” Also, nearly all of the northern Canadian population agreed that wolves were a nuance and should be destroyed. Once Farley Mowat finally made it out of Churchill and into the north he obviously went in with a biased mindset towards the wolves, however once Farley
Wolves have always been a symbol of the wild, free in spirit and roamers of the land. These animals are considered majestic and protectors of the wilderness. They have always roamed the western United States, although their population has fluctuated over time. Over the past 10 years wolf reintroduction into Yellowstone National Park has been a controversial topic to those of the United States. As of 1995, wolves have been reintroduced into the park. This has come with some strong opposition and yet has prevailed. The future of the wolf in Yellowstone park is now looking bright, although not certain since there still are those who want them banished again.
Part of the problem with the wolves now found in the Idaho wilderness is the fact that they are not native to Idaho, as the indigenous populations had all been nearly wiped out. These wolves are from Canada, and are much larger and stronger than those native to the state. Not only that, but the ...
Carter, Angela. "The Company of Wolves." Folk and Fairy Tales. Eds. Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek. 3rd Edition. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2002.
These [the wolves] could no longer find their usual prey of lambs and sheep since the farms were burnt down, so they gathered in hungry packs and howled round the city walls. At night time they would steal into the city itself and fall upon men asleep on their cards in the open halls, and on women and children too. (qtd. Nolthenius 44)
the man ate like a dog, and it showed that he must have been very
The Creature That Opened My Eyes Sympathy, anger, hate, and empathy, these are just a few of the emotions that came over me while getting to know and trying to understand the creature created by victor frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. For the first time I became completely enthralled in a novel and learned to appreciate literature not only for the great stories they tell but also for the affect it could have on someones life as cliché as that might sound, if that weren’t enough it also gave me a greater appreciation and understanding of the idiom “never judge a book by its cover.” As a pimply faced, insecure, loner, and at most times self absorbed sophomore in high school I was never one to put anytime or focus when it came time
Wolves come to your mind and you think of a gray beast eating the flesh of a cute little animal. A grey wolf running around, howling at night and attacking with its sharp fangs. You think of something, whatever it may be, big and frightening. But would you change you perspective if I showed you a picture of a pup said that the grey wolf is endangered and needs your help? Yes. That's right the grey wolf is endangered. But don't worry. They have some help from the U.S. Now they're able to run around in beautiful areas. You may not believe me when I say wolves are actually good. Three words. Ecosystem, Economy, and Endangered. Three reasons why we should be saving the wolves.
The setting takes place in the Barren Land of northeast Canada (Simms). When Mowat arrives he is faced with the many challenges of this brutal climate. The wolves are already adapted to these circumstances and have evolved to endure the climate. Human’s on the other hand have not making them inferior to animals. This would be assumed as common knowledge but Mowat still makes the point to show this throughout his work. In the spring time when the weather changed the cabin was ruined by the flooding that washed in the ruins the fourteen huskies had built up all winter long. “… [T]he cabin had lost its charm, for the debris on the floor was a foot thick and somewhat repellent” (52). Mowat is then hindered by this for a while after it occurred. The wolves on the other hand never had this problem and lived much simpler. In the fight to survive easily in nature the wolves come out to be much more superior to humans. Humans assume with their complex brains and evolved technology they are better than animals. What Mowat was trying to make explicit was that wolves live an even easier life in nature without the help of
As seen when see when the boar runs away, “He held out his arm. ‘Look.’ He turned his left forearm for them all to see. On the outside was a rip; not much, but bloody. ‘He did that with his tusks.
The proud fox, serving as the main point of focus and predator, seems delighted as he devours his prey. From the fluffiness of the fox’s tail, to the overall furriness look projecting
The moon had called the night before, and the wolves had answered. Throughout the long, winter night, the Grayrock pack had ran through the snow, under the vast trees of the forest, side by side, in one of the last, untamed wildernesses of the States. Nestled in a place on the outskirts of civilization, Grayrock was ruled by nature, perhaps its last sovereignty over man. They had hunted in a formation: young wolves, who were going through their first transformation, in the middle and older wolves on the edges. If one of the pups fell out of line, they were snapped at to return to their place.
A little girl has went to bring her grandmother some cookies, as she walks through the woods she meets a wolf and tells the wolf where she is headed. The wolf then beats the girl to her house, eats the grandmother, and dresses up as her to trick Little Red Riding Hood before she arrives. When she gets there she notices her Grandmother looks different. When she is close enough to recognize it is no her grandmother, the wolf eats her. In reality we all know that wolves cannot speak and are not intelligent enough to trick a human, but the moral behind the story is where the facts come in. In reality we all know we should not talk to strangers, its very dangerous. The wolf represents people who may be charming, polite or, sweet but are still strangers but in real life these are the people children should watch out for the