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National Geographic
February 2013
On Sale: February 5, 2013
216 pages
ISBN: 1426210124
EAN: 9781426210129
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Non-Fiction Photography
The photography is stunningly beautiful and the insights
that Jim and Jamie Dutcher share with us opens a world of
understanding into wolf behavior." –Apogee Photo
Magazine
Delve into amazingly intimate wolf
photography by Jim and Jamie Dutcher, a couple who spent
many years living with a pack of wolves at the edge of
Idaho's Sawtooth Wilderness, observing their complex social
hierarchy. Here is the alpha pair, leaders of the pack,
often the only couple that mate. Here are the pups, born
with eyes shut in the spring, tousled by their mother
through the first six weeks of life. Here is the omega wolf,
lowest ranking wolf in the pack, whose subservience, often
playful, alleviates pack tension. Here are moments of
cooperation and moments of snarling dominance, moments of
communication and affection. Here, too, are heartwarming
moments of connection between the Dutchers and the wolves,
caught in pictures that remind us how close the links are
between wolves in the wild and the beloved family dog.
Short chapters introduce the wolves as individuals,
describe the Dutchers' years of coming to know them, and
address the complex conservation issues surrounding the
near-extinction and now replenishment of the species in the
wild. Sidebars explore myths about wolves, including Native
American spirit stories, European fairy tales, and modern
ranching hearsay.
For animal lovers, nature lovers,
environmentalists, and especially dog lovers, this book
shares the new understanding gained by six years of the
authors' living intimately with wild wolves. Created to
complement a traveling exhibition that makes its debut at
Chicago's Field Museum in March 2013, it will also appeal to
those unable to see the show.
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