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Mowat discovers his love for animals when he was young through a strange way with catfish
Chapter 1 -
Mowat doesn't know what he wants to study in the field of biology
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Mowat is suddenly assigned to a wolf project surrounding wolves and caribou
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He travels to Churchill to then continue on to another location to study the wovles.
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He arrives to meet the wolves
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He meets mike by mistaking his dogs for wolves. He then finds his cabin and secures a place to live. He then tells mike about different things and scares him off by mike thinkingg that Mowat is a threat and may potentially want to kill him.
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He finds the wolves and encounters them. He decides to set up camp to further observe the wolves.
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Ootek hears the wolves and claim that he can hear them. He listens to them and says that wolves say that the caribou are migrating for the winter.
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He finds that during the winter the wolves find other food sources.
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Mowat meets Ootek and learns about his abilities to supposedly speek to the wolves.
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Mowat finds that the wolves for the winter were actually eating mice and in order to conduct an expiriment to determine if it was a good protein source and so he introduced it into his own diet and determined that it was.
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The wolves move for the summer because their den was too small for the wolf pups and they moved into the forest for the summer
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Uncle Albert falls in love with one of Mikes huskies
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Mowat and Ootek go to surrounding areas to learn more about the wolves from other people
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Mowat finds that there are actually around 3000 wolves in the area and that he was only observing a tiny fraction of them
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Mowat asks Ootek why the wolves don't go for the caribou, and Ootek replies that they know they can't outrun a caribou. They usually only go for weak ones or young ones in a strong herd where natural selection hasn't played out yet.
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Mowat is explained to that killing of a wolve is a sport and the wolves will soon have to move south due to food.
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Ootek bursts into the cabin one day and tells Mowat that he saw a plane
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Police are out for Mowat but they cant find him because they don't have any infromation on where he is.
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Mowat finds Angeline and her pups in the old den while George howls off in the distance to mourn a lost home