The wolves, on the other hand, subsist on a diet of mainly mice.
The reality he soon learns is that the trappers are killing far more wolves each year to feed their husky teams than the wolves kill – up to three hundred a year each. Told that wolves number as many as thirty thousand in the region of his studies, Farley expects the population to be thick in the area of his observations, but none of these things are true. He is also under the impression that they will attack and kill a considerable number of men each year, but they will not touch Eskimo women who are pregnant. Before he leaves for his study, he is told that wolves are decimating the caribou population, killing them indiscriminately for sport. Mowat's journey into the world of wolves changes everything he believes and has been told about them and their behavior. Never Cry Wolf is a scientific account of what Mowat discovers as a result of his study of wolves. When he completed his schooling, he was engaged by the Department of Mines and Resources to investigate the problems of the decreasing deer population, presumed to have been as a result of an out of control wolf population. In Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat, the author begins by recounting how he expressed an interest in living biology at age five when he first discovered two catfish in a stagnant pond near his grandmother’s home in Ontario.
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