The Searching Wolf



The Gray Wolf Course

14. Wolves and Humans

  1. Wolves and humans: Ice age survivors
  2. Culture versus nature
  3. In Europe
    1. When humans were hunter-gathers
    2. Development of agriculture
    3. Mythology and religion
    4. Ferocity and fertility
    5. What was wrong with wolves?
    6. Extermination of wolves
  4. The Native American perspective
  5. Destruction of wolves in the United States
  6. Quotes by early environmentalists
  7. Aldo Leopold's attitude change
  8. Depredation of livestock
  9. Attacks on humans
  10. Who supports the cause of the wolf in the United States?
  11. Origin of the domesticated dog

Resources

Articles and Reports

Bishop, N.A. 1998. "Child-lifting" by a wolf in India. International Wolf 8(4):17-18.

Klinghammer, E. 1989. The wolf: Fact and fiction. Pages 77-91 In Hoage, R.J., Editor. Perspectives of Animals in American Culture. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington, DC.

Klinghammer, E. 1996. Captive non-socialized wolves kill caretaker. Glimpses into the Ethology and Psychology of Wolves and Related Canids 1:1-2.

Lash, C. Aug. 28, 1996. Family trip to Canadian lake ends in wolf attack on son, 12. Pittsburg Post-Gazette, Page A1+.

Mech, L.D. 1998. "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" International Wolf 8(1):8-11.

Peterson, R.L. 1947. A record of a timber wolf attacking a man. Journal of Mammalogy 28:294-295.

Rajpurohit, K.S. 1999. Child lifting: Wolves in Hazaribagh, India. Ambio 28:162-166.

Route, B. 1999. Wolf-human incidents in Algonquin Provincial Park. International Wolf 9(1):15-16.

Tubbs, N.J. 1994. Tracking down an alleged wolf attack on a human. International Wolf 4(2):6-10.

Books, Monographs, and Proceedings

Defonseca, M. 1997. Misha: A mémoire of the Holocost Years. Mt. Ivy Press:Inc.: Boston.

Flader, S.L. 1994. Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves and Forests. The University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, WI.

Hall, R.L. and H.S. Sharp, Editors. 1978. Wolf and Man: Evolution in Parallel. Academic Press: New York.

Lawrence, R.D. 1996. A Shriek in the Forest Night: Wilderness Encounters. Stoddart Publishing Co., Ltd.: Toronto

Leopold, A. 1949. A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Olson, S.F. 1956. The Singing Wilderness. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: New York.

Videos

Artist & the Wolves. 1992. 30 minutes. Twin Cities Public Television: St. Paul, MN.

Faded Footsteps... Silent Howls. 1989. 28 minutes. Cooperative Educational Service: Green Bay, WI.

In Praise of Wolves. 1990. 50 minutes. NorthWord Press, Inc.: Minocqua, WI.

The Wolf: Beyond the Fairy Tale. 1993. 29 minutes. Natural Areas Association: St. George, UT.

The Wolf: Real or Imagined? 1992. 28 minutes. Montanans for Quality Television: Missoula, MT

Wolf Nation. 1995. 30 minutes. Mystic Fire Video, Inc.: New York.