Alaska species accounts, part 1, v4403
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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