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...SOUL OF THE WOLF by Michael Fox...
...trappers lost in the snow. All that has changed. Now wolves are seen as benign and useful citizens of the ecosystem. They protect nature's delicate balance by keeping down those troublesome caribou herds and even practice birth control. Wolves do still howl, of course, but, as Michael Fox reassuringly points out, this is often to express "their unity and kinship through song...
...Fox, 43, is a psychologist and ethologist, and a leader in the growing pack of natural scientists who have lately given wolves a good name. He has been raising wolves and studying them for years. In earlier books like Behavior of Wolves, Dogs and Related Canids, Fox presented the facts. The Soul of the Wolf is something else, an illustrated valentine to Fox's four-footed friends, and a moral message for another endangered species, man. The valentine is marvelous, the exhortation overblown. By learning about wolves, Fox insists, man can learn about the mysterious intricacies of nature...
More like wolves? Yes indeed. Take sex, for instance. Wolf couples, writes Fox, "enjoy mutual love and affiliation without year-round conflicts over and desire for sex." Unlike men and women (and male dogs), who are highly promiscuous and make love more or less all the year round, wolves, both male and female, breed only once a year, though they have a longish courtship period when the male brings the female good things to eat, sticks to play with, and may, by bowing, invite her to puppylike play...
...Dean Fox decided to move the office last August, an assistant to Fox said yesterday...