I 7 2 WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS 



Many tales have been told about the terrible 

 hunger and ferocity of wolves during the winter. 

 This may sometimes be so. Wolves seem ever 

 to have good, though not enormous, appetites. 

 Sometimes, too, they go hungry for days with- 

 out a full meal. But generally, if the winter is 

 snowy, this snow makes it easier for them to 

 make a big kill. 



Deer, elk, and mountain sheep occasionally 

 are caught in deep snow, or are struck by a 

 snowslide. A number sometimes are snow- 

 bound or killed at one time. Usually the prowl- 

 ing wolves or coyotes discover the kill and re- 

 main near as long as the feast holds out. 



Once I knew of a number of wolves and two 

 lions lingering for more than two weeks at 

 the wreckage brought down by a snowslide. I 

 was camping down below in the woods and each 

 evening heard a hullabaloo, and when awake 

 in the night I heard it. Occasionally I heard 

 it in the daytime. Finally a grizzly made a 

 discovery of this feeding ground. He may have 

 scented it or he may have heard the uproars a 

 mile or two away. For the wolves and the 

 lions feasted, fought, and played by the hour. 

 The row became so uproarious one night that 

 I started up to see what it was all about. But 

 the night was dark and I turned back to wait 

 until morning. Things had then calmed down, 



