I 4 2 WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS 



killed by lightning. It was not shod and car- 

 ried no human scent. Upon this pony the 

 wolves were feasting within a few hours. 



The wolf in his struggles with man has be- 

 come an extremely cautious animal. He is 

 hunted and pursued with deadly ingenuity and 

 persistence. Guns, traps, poison, and dogs are 

 used for his destruction. There is no quarter 

 for him always a price on his head; and the 

 sum is large. Survivors must be exceptionally 

 wide-awake and wary. The numbers that still 

 survive show that this exacting price of exist- 

 ence has been met. They have not been beaten. 

 Altogether, the wolves now alive probably 

 are much more destructive than their ances- 

 tors were, and far more capable of saving them- 

 selves from: extermination by man. 



Much of the time wolves hunt in cooperat- 

 ing packs. They run an animal down by fol- 

 lowing it in relays; sometimes one or more wolves 

 lie in wait at a point of vantage while others 

 drive or force the victim into the ambush. On 

 an island in Alaska a number of wolves in re- 

 lays chased a deer and at last drove it into the 

 sea. Near the point where it leaped into the 

 water a swimming wolf was in waiting. 



Three wolves chased a young antelope through 

 my mountain camp. Though they nearly ran 

 over me, I doubt whether either the antelope or 



