From above, he saw a wolf pack capture and kill a moose.
In 1970, Mech published âThe Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species.â The book assembled an enormous amount of research on wolves, covering aspects including wolf habits, wolf society, and the relations of the wolf to prey, to non-prey, to disease, and, of course, to humans.
Where conditions are harsh, a wolf pack might number fourâtwo parents, two pupsâbecause so few pups survive.
At six years old, a Yellowstone wolf is considered an elderâonly about one in five lives to that age.
European wolf myths often have this quality, of the wolf and the human as being in some ways the same.