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Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal by L. David Mech
4.0
An interesting story of young graduate student David Mech studying wolves on the island of Isle Royale during three years in the 1950-1960s. This is a short, but good true story about how wolves were studied in the beginning, and what a life in the wilderness as a biologist can be like.
Things were naturally different back then, but life on the island in the wilderness has probably still its challenges despite all our technical gadgets. It is not a book filled will science, but an overview of what happened, his life during those years, and starting an amazing journey off getting to know wolves, as well as getting to know how to study them. Not to forget the moose on the island.
I really enjoyed the part at the end when he sped through his studies of wolves ha e changed and gone forward, and that the project is still going strong after 60 years. I bet I could listen to David’s stories for many hours. Extremely interesting, although I would have liked to read a lot more about the wolves. I guess I have to read his other books to find out more about all the other things he has done. I think we can thank this man for a lot of people changing their minds from being wolf haters to people who understand that wolves are important to the ecosystem.
Things were naturally different back then, but life on the island in the wilderness has probably still its challenges despite all our technical gadgets. It is not a book filled will science, but an overview of what happened, his life during those years, and starting an amazing journey off getting to know wolves, as well as getting to know how to study them. Not to forget the moose on the island.
I really enjoyed the part at the end when he sped through his studies of wolves ha e changed and gone forward, and that the project is still going strong after 60 years. I bet I could listen to David’s stories for many hours. Extremely interesting, although I would have liked to read a lot more about the wolves. I guess I have to read his other books to find out more about all the other things he has done. I think we can thank this man for a lot of people changing their minds from being wolf haters to people who understand that wolves are important to the ecosystem.