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Two red wolves at the National Zoo, 1994.
In this section, you will find
a list of selected references on wolves, developed in response to frequently
asked questions.
- Alderton, D.
1994 Foxes, Wolves and Wild Dogs of the World. Facts on
File, New York. 192 pp. (Myths, anatomy, species accounts, reintroductions.)
- Allen, D.
1979 Wolves of Minong: Their Vital Role in a Wild Community.
Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. 499 pp., black and white photographs.
(Account of wolves on Isle Royale National Park.)
1979 "How wolves kill," Natural History, Vol.
88, No. 5, May 1979, pp. 46-50. (Description of predator-prey techniques.)
Bangs, E.E. and S.H. Fritts
1993 "Reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National
Park and Central Idaho." Endangered Species Technical Bulletin,
Vol. XVIII, No. 3, pp. 1, 18-20.
Banks, V.
1988 "The red wolf gets a second chance to live by its wits,"
Smithsonian, Vol. 18, No. 2, March 1988, pp. 100-107. (Release
of captive-bred red wolves into a Carolina refuge.)
Bass, R.
1998 The New Wolves. Lyons Press, New York. 165 pp. (Reintroduction
of Mexican wolf in Southwest)
Bibikov, D. I.
1980 "Wolves in the USSR," Natural History, Vol.
89, No. 6, June 1980, pp. 58-63. (Biologist describes Russia's policies
toward wolves in populated and in wild areas.)
Brandenburg, J.
1988 White Wolf: Living with an Arctic Legend. NorthWord Press,
Inc., Minocqua, WI. 159 pp. Paperback 1991. (Two years observing wolves
on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. Outstanding photographs.)
Brown, D.E. (Editor)
1983 The Wolf in the Southwest: The Making of an Endangered Species.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 195 pp.
Busch, R.
1995 The Wolf Almanac. Lyons and Burford, New York. 226 pp.
(Includes evolution, distribution, anatomy, behavior, man's relationship
with the wolf, and conservation.)
Caras, R.A.
1966 The Custer Wolf. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
175 pp. Reprint 1993. (Story of a renegade white wolf born near Custer,
South Dakota, that decimated sheep and cattle from 1915 - 1920.)
Carbyn, L.N. (Editor)
1983 Wolves in Canada and Alaska. Canadian Wildlife Service,
Ottawa, Canada. 134 pp.
Clark, T.W. (Editor)
1999 Carnivores in Ecosystems: The Yellowstone Experience.
Yale University Press, New Haven. 429 pp. (technical)
Dietz, J.M
1984 "Ecology and social organization of the Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon
brachyurus)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology,
No. 392, 51 pp.
1987 "Grass roots of the maned wolf," Natural History,
Vol.96, No. 3, March 1987, pp. 52-59. (Evolution of the maned wolf
in South America and behavior in Serra do Castra National Park in
Brazil.)
Fiennes, R.
1976 The Order of Wolves. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis,
New York. 206 pp. (Origin, ecology, characteristics, behavior, domestication,
myths.)
Fox, M.W. (Editor)
1975 The Wild Canids: Their Systematics, Behavioral Ecology and
Evolution. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 508 pp. (Includes
5 papers specifically on wolves.)
1980 The Soul of the Wolf. Little Brown, Boston. 131 pp.
1984 Behavior of Wolves, Dogs and Related Canids. Reprint
of 1971 edition. Krieger, Florida. 220 pp.
Frank, H. (Editor)
1986 Man and Wolf: Advances, Issues, and Problems in Captive Wolf
Research. Dordrecht; Boston; W. Junk. 439 pp. (Based on an international
conference hosted by the University of Michigan, Flint, in October
1981.)
Fritts, S.H. and L.D. Mech
1981 "Dynamics, movements, and feeding ecology of a newly protected
wolf population in northwestern Minnesota," Wildlife Monograph
No. 80. Supplement to the Journal of Wildlife Management, Vol.
45, No. 4, October 1981.
Ginsberg, J.R., and D.W. Macdonald
1990 Foxes, Wolves, Jackals, and Dogs: An Action Plan for the
Conservation of Canids. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. 116 pp.
Hampton, B.
1997 The Great American Wolf. Henry Holt & Co., Inc.,
New York. 308 pp.
Harrington, F. H. and P.C. Paquet (Editors)
1982 Wolves of the World. Perspectives of Behavior, Ecology, and
Conservation. Noyes, Park Ridge, New Jersey. 474 pp. (Chapters
by many authors; sections on behavior and ecology of wolves in North
America, Eurasia and wolves in captivity; conservation.)
Lawrence, R.D.
1986 In Praise of Wolves. Ballantyne Books, New York. 216
pp.
Lopez, B.A.
1979 Of Wolves and Men. Reprint of 1978 edition. Scribner,
New York. 309 pp. (Wolves in religion, folklore, etc.)
McIntyre, R.
1993 A Society of Wolves: National Parks and the Battle over the
Wolf. Voyageur Press, Stillwater, Minnesota. 127 pp. (Wolves;
National parks and government policy; management and reintroduction.)
Mech, L. David
1966 The Wolves of Isle Royale. Fauna of the national parks
of the United States, Fauna series 7. Superintendent of Documents,
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. (No longer
available from that office.)
1970 The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species.
Natural History Press, Garden City, New York. 384 pp. (A classic on
wolf biology.)
1974 "Canis lupus." Mammalian Species, No. 37, pp.
1-6. (Summary of the biology of the gray wolf; technical)
1977 "Wolf-pack buffer zones as prey reservoirs," Science,
Vol. 198, October 21, 1977, pp. 320-321.
1977 "Where can the wolf survive," National Geographic,
Vol. 152, No. 4, October. (Biology and natural habits of the wolf
and its prospects for survival.)
1987 "At home with the Arctic wolf," National Geographic,
Vol. 171, No. 5, May, pp. 562-593. ( An account of Mech's field work
and experiences with the Arctic wolf on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian
Arctic.)
1991 The Way of the Wolf. Voyageur Press, Stillwater, Minnesota.
120 pp. (Behavior)
1997 The Arctic Wolf: Ten Years with the Pack. Revised edition,
updated 10th anniversary ed. Yoyageur Press, Stillwater, Minnesota.
144 pp.
Mech, L.D. et al
1998 The Wolves of Denali. University of Minnesota Press,
Minneapolis. 227 pp. (Alaskan wolves; Denali Park)
Mech, L.D. (Editor)
2000 The Wolves of Minnesota: Howls in the Heartland. Voyageur
Press, Stillwater, Minnesota. 127 pp
Mowat, F.
1963 Never Cry Wolf. Little, Brown, Boston. 247 pp. 1984 paper
edition by Bantam, New York, 176 pp. (Popular account of the author's
adventures and observations of wolf behavior in Canada.)
National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service
1990 Yellowstone Wolf Questions - a digest. Extracts from Wolves
for Yellowstone? A report to the United States Congress. Yellowstone
National Park, Wyoming 82190. Yell-560.
Murie, A.
1985 The Wolves of Mount McKinley. University of Washington
Press, Seattle. 238 pp. Reprint. Originally published in 1944 by the
Government Printing Office (Fauna of the National Parks of the United
States, Fauna Series No. 5.)
Nowak, R.M.
1999 Walker's Mammals of the World. 6th edition. Vol. II.
Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore and London. (Distribution and general
biology of species.)
Peterson, R.O.
1995 The Wolves of Isle Royale. A Broken Balance. Willow Creek
Press, Minocqua, Wisconsin. 190 pp. (Updated study of the gray wolves
and moose on Isle Royale.)
Phillips, M. and Parker, W.
1988 "Red wolf recovery: a progress report," Conservation
Biology, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 139-144.
Phillips, M.K. and D.W. Smith
1996 The Wolves of Yellowstone. Voyageur Press, Stillwater,
Minnesota. 125 pp. (Story of first year of the Yellowstone wolf recovery
program.)
Pimlott, D.H. (Editor)
1975 Wolves. Proceedings of the First Working Meeting of Wolf
Specialists and of the First International Conference on the Conservation
of the Wolf. New Series. Supplementary Paper, No. 43. International
Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Morges, Switzerland.
Robbins J.
1986 "Wolves across the border," Natural History,
Vol. 95, No.5, May 1986, pp. 6-15. (The return of wolves to the northwestern
United States.)
Ross, M.
1989 "Red wolf recovery effort intensifies," Endangered
Species Technical Bulletin, Vol. 14, Nos 1-2, P. 3.
Rutter R.J. and D.H. Pimlott
1967 The World of the Wolf. Lippincott Publishing Co., Philadelphia.
202 pp. (Wolf behavior.)
Savage, C.
1996 The World of the Wolf. Revised edition of Wolves,
1988. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. 114 pp. (History, mythology,
behavior of wolves.)
Shaw, J.H. and P.A. Jordan
1977 "The wolf that lost its genes," Natural History,
Vol. 86, No. 10, December 1977, 80-88. (About the red wolf.)
Simon, N.
1985 Wolves. (Animal Families Series). J.M. Dent, England.
47 pp. (for elementary school, 4th grade and up)
U.S. Government Printing Office
1977 Wolf Ecology and Prey Relationships on Isle Royale. Government
Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. 210 pp. (Study of moose and
gray wolves at Isle Royale National Park. Previously published work
is reviewed and data on wolf population from 1971-1974 presented in
detail.)
Wildlife Society Bulletin
1996 Predators. Special Issue. Wildlife Society Bulletin.
Vol. 24, Number 3, Fall 1996, pp. 387-586. (Includes three articles
on gray wolf reintroduction.)
Wilson, D.E. and S. Ruff (Editors)
1999 The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals. Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington DC. 750 pp. (Sections on the gray wolf
and red wolf by experts in the field)
Young, S. and E. Goldman
1944 Wolves of North America. 1964 reprint by Dover Press,
New York. (Old, but still an excellent history of wolves and wolf
behavior in North America.)
Prepared by the Department of Systematic Biology, Vertebrate Zoology
Section,
National Museum of Natural History, in cooperation with Public Inquiry Services, Smithsonian Institution
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