142 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 codperat- 
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 
