A PACK OF WOLVES HUNTING 



The Common Wolf {Cams lupus) ranges over the cold and 

 temperate parts of the northern hemisphere, and was formerly 

 abundant in Britain — the last surviving Scottish individuals being 

 killed in 1743, and the last Irish ones even later (? about 1770)- 

 The wolves of England are said to have been finally exterminated 

 during the reign of Henry VII. During winter these rapacious' 

 carnivores associate themselves into packs, and hunt their prey 

 systematically during the night. These aggressive proceedings 

 are carried out with that kind of skilled division of labour which 

 is characteristic of many social animals. And as in nocturnal 

 flesh-eaters generally, the sense of smell is very strongly developed, 

 constituting the chief means by which prey is tracked. 



