| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-04-01 | | Editor: | L. David Mech |
| Size | | Length: | 227 pages | | Height: | 10.5 in | | Width: | 8.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 36.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
A ground-breaking work from a team of internationally acclaimed wolf experts. Hunting caribou, Dall sheep, and moose in the shadow of Mount McKinley, the wolves of Alaska's Denali National Park form one of the largest protected populations in the world. Relatively unmolested by humans, Denali wolves have flourished in this massive and beautiful wilderness. For over nine years these wolves have been the subject of intense research by a group of renowned scientists led by L. David Mech. The results of their work provide the most comprehensive study on a population of wolves and their prey ever available, now made public in this accessible and fascinating book. The Wolves of Denali is the story of more than thirty wolf packs monitored for nine years. Using aerial radio tracking, Mech and his colleagues monitored 147 individual wolves. In order to explore the interactions between wolves and caribou, the authors also simultaneously tracked 653 individual caribou following the herds around Denali park. From this remarkable research comes a vivid portrait of the Denali wolf and its prey. Written in an engaging manner and extensively illustrated, the authors explore everything from pack competition for space and food, to the story of individual wolves fighting each other or dispersing hundreds of miles. The Wolves of Denali provides important new information for researchers and general readers, and will appeal to wolf enthusiasts across the world.
Industry Reviews
Alaska's Denali National Park contains the world's least disturbed mainland wolf population. Although research on the wolves dates back to the 1940s, no comprehensive, long-term study was undertaken until 1986 when Mech, a world-renowned wolf expert, led a team of biologists in a nine-year study of the wolves and their prey. This book covers all aspects of wolf ecology, including natural history, pack organization and function, and the wolves' special relationship with Denali's caribou herds. The meshing of a concurrent longitudinal study of the park's caribou with the wolf research lends added value. The writing is clear, the chapters are well organized, and the book is replete with photographs (including 16 color plates). But the ample complement of statistics, graphs, and tables and lack of anecdotal accounts makes it less accessible to a lay reader than Michael K. Phillips's and Douglas W. Smith's The Wolves of Yellowstone (LJ 1/97) and Thomas McNamee's The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone (LJ 5/15/97). For academic libraries and public libraries with large environmental/biology collections. Lynn C. Badger, Univ. of Florida Lib., Gainesville
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