Wolves
Just think the wolf ruler of the forest has not evolved over the years.
It had evolved to see the sick animals and to take them down. Man
is killing the wolf. Why? Man takes the healthiest buck he can find
in the forest, leaving the sick to breed with the sick. The wolf is
taking the sick, weak and stupid so the finest of the breed can live.
Tell me who is doing the better job at maintaining the balance of
life?
If I could I'd educate all the selfish people out there that think
about themselves and not about the beauty around them. They are not
thinking about how many animals will go hungry tonight, just because
the hunter took his prize, choped the head off and threw the rest
away. That one deer could have fed a pack of wolves, bear, scavegers,
bugs, and so on down the line, including birds, snakes... See the
wolf isn't as bad as Little Red Riding Hood made him out to be.
Have you ever seen a wolf, not in the zoo? A wild wolf one that has
never has been in a cage or even near one. I haven't and you know
why? The wolf has been hunted. Almost to extinction. You don't see
many people out there helping. They are potrayed as evil, malicious
demons. Due to that fact, popular majority says kill them now. A popular
saying used with the extermination of wolves is: "Shoot, Shovel,
Shut up."
They are known all around the world as the number one predator of the ecosystem
they live in. These animals have existed for thousands of years, and have
evolved differently for each part of the world they live in.
This animal has been hunted to extinction in many cases.
Many men seek for profit. Others for the blood thirsty ways of their nature.
Some don't care whether or not they are wrong.
They will not stop.
Thousands of wolves have been brutially murderd (yes, murdered). Through
out the centuries they have been burned alive in their dens. They have been
cut open by spears of greedy men. Heliocopters and snowmoblies chase them
to the point of exhaustion, then men jump out and shoot, because it really
is no work.
Rifles, shotguns, machines. What humans depend on for a good laugh, and
a bad slaughter.
This story was told by wildlife author Brenda Peterson on her return from
the Wolf Summit in a Seattle Times article of January 27, 1993, titled "We
Must Control Ourselves, Not Wolves." It may be an indication of the work
that lies ahead if the wolf is to have a fighting chance in Alaska.
On the last day of the wold summit I sat in a bar and listened to someone
tell a story of his father, an Alaskan trapper. "The wolf is so much like
our species," the man said. "They have families, a social structure that's
complex and highly organized. They're top predators who even kill their
own kind, although never like human wars. Thay are our mirrors. Maybe that's
why we've killed so many of then, just like we've killed our own kind. But
the wolf and us, we recognize each other.
Then he told the story: Seems his trapper father came back to his trap lines
and found a fierce wolf, his paw clamped shut and broken in the metal trap.
"He just looked at me, that old wolf," The man said. "Maybe he thought after
suffering like that for days that I was going to help him. Don't know why,
but that creature stared at me and wagged his tail. He wagged his tail like
that, until I shot him."
This story was taken from the book Wolf by Maureen Greeley.
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