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Wolf Island : discovering the secrets of a mythic animal
- Title
- Wolf Island : discovering the secrets of a mythic animal / L. David Mech with Greg Breining ; foreword by Rolf O. Peterson.
- Author
- Mech, L. David
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | QL737.C22 M39985 2020 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 188 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The world's leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature's most iconic creatures"--
- In the late 1940s, a small pack of wolves crossed the ice of Lake Superior to the island wilderness of Isle Royale, creating a perfect laboratory for a long-term study of predators and prey. Mech, a graduate student at the time, began research and would eventually became an internationally renowned wolf expert. Here Mech recounts three summers and winters he spent on the isolated outpost of Isle Royale National Park, tracking and observing wolves and moose on foot and by airplane-- and upending the common misperception of wolves as destructive killers of insatiable appetite. -- adapted from jacket
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- We didn't know -- The chance of a lifetime -- Discovery: Summer 1958 -- Eye in the sky: Winter 1959 -- Island life: Summer 1959 -- Finding patterns: Winter 1960 -- Island of change: Summer 1960 -- Putting together the pieces: Winter 1961 -- The Wolves of Isle Royale -- The view from afar.
- ISBN
- 9781517908256
- 1517908256
- 9781517911317
- 1517911311
- 9781452962092 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020020439
- OCLC
- on1154103607
- 1154103607
- SCSB-9776229
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library