A little bit of the Montana

I picked up this book "Never Cry Wolf" in a small quaint town of Montana just before we were to start back from our trip to YellowStone National Park.

May be I liked the place, may be reading the first 2 pages of this book endeared me or may be I wanted to take a little bit of Montana with me

Never cry wolf was a very different book; a book in which the main characters were animals.

About 50 years ago the Author Farley Mowat travels to the Artic to study the cause of a large number of Caribou killings.

Most of the people concerned about the killings: caribou hunters and top wildlife bureaucrats blame the Artic wolves to be the culprits and that is what Mowat is sent to investigate.

Mowat's find is not just startling but by the end of the book you feel respect and love for these wolves, infact you end up feeling "small"... just a small part of the large animal kingdom.

I have to say Mowat loved his profession, the length that he went to study the wolves

from setting up a tent just a stone throw distance from a wolf family's den to subsisting on a diet of rats to study their food habits(yes Artic wolves eat rats until caribou migrate back in Summer). Beat this, he actually gives a rat recipe for the adventurous at heart :)

Now coming to the wolves themselves.Most of the things about wolves were astonishing, human like and in some cases they seem smarter!

Wolves living with their family, mating for life and just like humans wolves visit their relatives, a mom, a sister!

And here is the deal

Wolves don't kill Caribou for fun. Infact most of the times they kill only the weak or the diseased thus actually helping the caribou stay healthier.

and the real culprit--- you got it,Humans, Human hunters and not wolves.