Wolves are some of the world's most charismatic and controversial animals capturing the
imaginations of their friends and foes alike. Highly intelligent and adaptable they hunt and
play together in close-knit packs sometimes roaming over hundreds of square miles in search of
food. Once teetering on the brink of extinction across much of the United States and Europe
wolves have made a tremendous comeback in recent years thanks to legal protection changing
human attitudes and efforts to reintroduce them to suitable habitats in North America. As wolf
populations have rebounded scientific studies of them have also flourished. But there hasn't
been a systematic comprehensive overview of wolf biology since 1970. In Wolves many of the
world's leading wolf experts provide state-of-the-art coverage of just about everything you
could want to know about these fascinating creatures. Individual chapters cover wolf social
ecology behavior communication feeding habits and hunting techniques population dynamics
physiology and pathology molecular genetics evolution and taxonomy interactions with
nonhuman animals such as bears and coyotes reintroduction interactions with humans and
conservation and recovery efforts. The book discusses both gray and red wolves in detail and
includes information about wolves around the world from the United States and Canada to Italy
Romania Saudi Arabia Israel India and Mongolia. Wolves is also extensively illustrated with
black and white photos line drawings maps and fifty color plates. Unrivalled in scope and
comprehensiveness Wolves will become the definitive resource on these extraordinary animals
for scientists and amateurs alike.
