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of organization, but that they hunt together 

 by relays, one relieving another, does show an 

 ability to correlate cause and effect, which 

 comes surprisingly near to what we are accus- 

 tomed to call human intelligence. I believe 

 that this organizing faculty is occasionally seen 

 in the gray wolf, and constantly in the coyote. 



THE GRAY WOLF 



The range of the large wolf of America ex- 

 tended east and west from ocean to ocean, 

 and from the farthest barren grounds of the 

 Arctic circle south to the tierra caliente of 

 Mexico. Whether the American wolf known 

 as big, gray, timber, buffalo, lobo, or loafer 

 wolf is the same with the wolf of northern 

 Europe, and whether or not the big wolf of 

 America to-day is to be divided into sub- 

 species, is a question on which I believe the 

 naturalists are not altogether agreed. But for 

 the purpose of this article, the large wolf may 

 be considered as one species wherever it is 

 found in America. 



Over the greater portion of its range this wolf 

 is gray in color, but in the Arctic regions, and 

 occasionally in the Northwest, it is white or 

 nearly so, while in Florida and some of the 



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