172 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, 
