Wolves
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Wolves

Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation

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Wolves

Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation

About this book

Wolves are some of the world's most charismatic and controversial animals, capturing the imaginations of their friends and foes alike. Highly intelligent and adaptable, they hunt and play together in close-knit packs, sometimes roaming over hundreds of square miles in search of food. Once teetering on the brink of extinction across much of the United States and Europe, wolves have made a tremendous comeback in recent years, thanks to legal protection, changing human attitudes, and efforts to reintroduce them to suitable habitats in North America.

As wolf populations have rebounded, scientific studies of them have also flourished. But there hasn't been a systematic, comprehensive overview of wolf biology since 1970. In Wolves, many of the world's leading wolf experts provide state-of-the-art coverage of just about everything you could want to know about these fascinating creatures. Individual chapters cover wolf social ecology, behavior, communication, feeding habits and hunting techniques, population dynamics, physiology and pathology, molecular genetics, evolution and taxonomy, interactions with nonhuman animals such as bears and coyotes, reintroduction, interactions with humans, and conservation and recovery efforts. The book discusses both gray and red wolves in detail and includes information about wolves around the world, from the United States and Canada to Italy, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Israel, India, and Mongolia. Wolves is also extensively illustrated with black and white photos, line drawings, maps, and fifty color plates.

Unrivalled in scope and comprehensiveness, Wolves will become the definitive resource on these extraordinary animals for scientists and amateurs alike.

"An excellent compilation of current knowledge, with contributions from all the main players in wolf research. . . . It is designed for a wide readership, and certainly the language and style will appeal to both scientists and lucophiles alike. . . . This is an excellent summary of current knowledge and will remain the standard reference work for a long time to come."—Stephen Harris, New Scientist

"This is the place to find almost any fact you want about wolves."—Stephen Mills, BBC Wildlife Magazine


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L. 
David 
Mech 
and 
Luigi 
Boitani
southwest, 
where 
they 
eventually 
settled 
(Mech 
et 
al.
1998). 
They 
had 
not 
produced 
pups 
before 
they 
left, 
and
it 
is 
unclear 
whether 
they 
produced 
any 
after 
they
settled. 
This 
appeared 
to 
be 
a 
mass 
emigration. 
A 
shorter
emigration 
was 
seen 
in 
Minnesota 
(Fuller 
1989b). 
Noth-
ing 
more 
is 
known 
about 
wolf 
emigration, 
but 
presum-
ably 
it 
takes 
place 
in 
response 
to 
a 
food 
shortage.
It 
should 
be 
clear 
from 
the 
above 
discussion 
that 
the 
wolf
has 
a 
highly 
adaptable 
social 
ecology 
that 
is 
flexible
enough 
to 
contend 
with 
a 
wide 
variety 
of 
living 
condi-
tions. 
Where 
food 
is 
small 
and 
scattered, 
offspring 
dis-
perse 
early, 
and 
packs 
are 
small. 
Where 
prey 
is 
much
larger 
than 
the 
wolf 
itself, 
breeding 
pairs 
bring 
young
from 
two 
or 
three 
litters 
with 
them 
as 
they 
travel 
and
hunt, 
and 
packs 
are 
much 
larger. 
Changes 
in 
prey 
avail-
ability 
are 
met 
with 
changes 
in 
dispersal 
rates. 
Similar
dynamics 
affect 
a 
population’s 
social 
structure, 
with
longer-term 
prey 
fluctuations 
translated 
into 
adjust-
ments 
in 
the 
territorial 
mosaic. 
Such 
social 
fluctuations
help 
wolves 
contend 
with 
the 
ever-changing 
nature 
of
their 
dynamic 
economy — a 
live 
prey 
base 
that 
is 
itself
subject 
to 
the 
vagaries 
of 
more 
basic 
environmental
perturbations.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword - George Rabb
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction - L. David Mech and Luigi Boitani
  6. 1. Wolf Social Ecology - L. David Mech and Luigi Boitani
  7. 2. Wolf Behavior: Reproductive, Social, and Intelligent - Jane M. Packard
  8. 3. Wolf Communication - Fred H. Harrington and Cheryl S. Asa
  9. 4. The Wolf as a Carnivore - Rolf O. Peterson and Paolo Ciucci
  10. 5. Wolf-Prey Relations - L. David Mech and Rolf O. Peterson
  11. 6. Wolf Population Dynamics - Todd K. Fuller, L. David Mech, and Jean Fitts Cochrane
  12. 7. The Internal Wolf: Physiology, Pathology, and Pharmacology - Terry J. Kreeger
  13. 8. Molecular Genetic Studies of Wolves - Robert K. Wayne and Carles Vilà
  14. 9. Wolf Evolution and Taxonomy - Ronald M. Nowak
  15. 10. Wolf Interactions with Non-prey - Warren B. Ballard, Ludwig N. Carbyn, and Douglas W. Smith
  16. 11. Restoration of the Red Wolf - Michael K. Phillips, V. Gary Henry, and Brian T. Kelly
  17. 12. Wolves and Humans - Steven H. Fritts, Robert O. Stephenson, Robert D. Hayes, and Luigi Boitani
  18. 13. Wolf Conservation and Recovery - Luigi Boitani
  19. Conclusion - L. David Mech and Luigi Boitani
  20. Appendix: Species Names Used in the Text
  21. Contributors
  22. References
  23. Author Index
  24. Subject Index
  25. Color photographs follow pages 110
  26. Color photographs follow pages 238