Sublime

One CANIS LUPUS LINNAEUS

The one constant was 21 and 42. Rick never tired of watching the alpha pair, especially 21, who was unlike any wolf he had ever seen. Even before 21 left his natal pack, Rick had known he was unusual. One morning in the spring of 1997, two years after Doug Smith and Carter Niemeyer rescued 21 following the death of his father, Rick watched the hand

This difference between the rover and the wolf lies in information versus information-with-a-purpose. Unlike Spirit, the leg-trapped wolf operates with ambitions: to escape danger and to reach safety. Its actions and intentions are undergirded by the threat of predators and the demands of its stomach. The wolf traffics in deference to goals. As a r

O-Six’s great-grandmother had been one of the first wolves reintroduced to the park, captured on the plains of western Canada, eight hundred miles to the north, and ferried south by plane and truck in the winter of 1995. By that time, Yellowstone had been essentially devoid of wolves for almost seven decades. Once found in virtually every habitat b