LIVING WITH WOLVES
People who take a walk through the woods near Rickling, north of Hamburg, in Germany, may meet a man taking seven full-grown wolves for a stroll. To begin with, local people were wary of the bearded stranger. Then they learnt
that Erik Zimen, of Sweden, was living in the forest with hjs seven wolves as part of a scientific experiment. For two years he has studied the behaviour of these ancestors of the dog. He bottle-fed them, spent many an hour in the pen with them, played
with them, baring his teeth and imitating their growls until they accepted him as leader of the pack. The differences and similarities in and between the character of wolves and dogs form part of Zimen’s Ph.D. thesis. Dogs, he reckons, are
not so socially-minded as wolves, can no longer communicate with each other noiselessly and have adapted to man in other respects, too. Dogs raise families all the year round. Wolveis take the succession of the seasons into account.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32032, 5 July 1969, Page 7
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