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Transcription
Code
1958
Canis lupus
3 July - cart -
moose-hill.
More than half the animals taken
by Griffin were yawling wolves.
Fourteen of the 43 were black.
Around the first of April on the
upper Chandlers just above the forks,
Griffin made the following observation
while he was on the ground. A herd
of about 30 caribou were traversing
along a flat ridge in single file. Suddenly
a wolf emerged from some brush about
10 feet from the lead animal, a few
yards, and appeared to grab the caribou
by his snout. Then the wolf seemed to
swing backward between the forelegs of
the caribou, binding the head and neck
of the caribou down and between her fore-
legs. In the next instant the caribou was
flipped over on its back. It lay still
after that. When the carcass was examined
it was Then another wolf appeared and joined
the first animal. They began feeding
immediately. When the carcass was examined
about 30 minutes later, the wolves were
gone-probably having been scared off by the
plane. The carcass had been opened up
on one side of the rib cage in the area of the
This observation was made 8x500 miles with