07-03-2017, 12:00 AM
Yes, this is a magnificent story that teaches balance and that every creature has a place and right to live in our world. (And that we should not stick our fingers into what we do not understand... hehe). What happened in Yellowstone seems like a miracle .
The wolf has not been in Yellowstone for some 70 years... and what a difference that made to the world in that park!
(As wiki tells us: The creation of the national park did not provide protection for wolves or other predators, and government predator control programs in the first decades of the 1900s essentially helped eliminate the gray wolf from Yellowstone. The last wolves were killed in Yellowstone in 1926. They were again introduced in 1995.)
I am lucky to come from a country where the wolf and bear have not been eradicated. However, the country where I live now eradicated their wolf and bear populations (even the lynx at one point, all of its mountain predators basically) and now after over one (or two?) centuries wolves and bears started coming here again (coincidentally, the first female wolf sighting happened in the same year that I arrived , the males came some five years earlier but many of them were shot. Now there is a third round of pups. Everything seems so well documented here hehe).
One of my favorite books about the wolf is Never Cry Wolf (I read that when I was in my early teens), which help in debunking the ignorant/silly ideas about wolves.
There is a documentary of a French-speaking team that went into one of the big national parks in Canada (the size of Europe's countries). Places where humans do not go and probably where a human has not been for a very very long time. Places with no roads whatsoever. They had a camera and their plan was to film how a wolf who does not know humans will react to meeting one. So, one of them was the explorer and another one or two were the crew and filmed it. I watched it on TV and back then I did not speak as much French as I do now and I barely understood. Luckily a person was with me who told me stuff they said. Why do I say this? Because it was like a real life version of Never Cry Wolf for me
The wolf has not been in Yellowstone for some 70 years... and what a difference that made to the world in that park!
(As wiki tells us: The creation of the national park did not provide protection for wolves or other predators, and government predator control programs in the first decades of the 1900s essentially helped eliminate the gray wolf from Yellowstone. The last wolves were killed in Yellowstone in 1926. They were again introduced in 1995.)
I am lucky to come from a country where the wolf and bear have not been eradicated. However, the country where I live now eradicated their wolf and bear populations (even the lynx at one point, all of its mountain predators basically) and now after over one (or two?) centuries wolves and bears started coming here again (coincidentally, the first female wolf sighting happened in the same year that I arrived , the males came some five years earlier but many of them were shot. Now there is a third round of pups. Everything seems so well documented here hehe).
One of my favorite books about the wolf is Never Cry Wolf (I read that when I was in my early teens), which help in debunking the ignorant/silly ideas about wolves.
There is a documentary of a French-speaking team that went into one of the big national parks in Canada (the size of Europe's countries). Places where humans do not go and probably where a human has not been for a very very long time. Places with no roads whatsoever. They had a camera and their plan was to film how a wolf who does not know humans will react to meeting one. So, one of them was the explorer and another one or two were the crew and filmed it. I watched it on TV and back then I did not speak as much French as I do now and I barely understood. Luckily a person was with me who told me stuff they said. Why do I say this? Because it was like a real life version of Never Cry Wolf for me