Extinct Pennsylvania Animals, Vol II: Wolf Days In Pennsylvania
By Henry W. Shoemaker
INDEX
I. Preface
II. The Last 'Wolf- Who Gets the Credit
III. The Last Pack
IV. Three Kinds of Wolves
V. Description and Habits
VI. Former Prevalence
VII. The Biggest Wolf
VII. A White Wolf in Sugar Valley
IX. Cause of Extinction
X. Wolf Hunting in Pennsylvania
XI Possible Re-Introduction
XII. Superstitions
XIII. Bravest of the Brave
XIV. Catching Wolves With Fish Hooks
XV. Historical Data
I. PREFACE
That a new book treating on the much-discussed wolf can be written
at all the animal must be described from an entirely different
point of view, else it would be superfluous. Happily the author
feels that there is a side, an important one, to the wolfish
character, which has been overlooked or perverted. It is a side
decidedly favorable to the animal, to its inherent right to live,
to be protected by mankind. The wolf of Pennsylvania accomplished
much more good than harm. At the time when the Indians ranged the
Continent and Nature's balance was perfect, the wolf played an
important role. With the panther it preyed upon the weak and sickly
wild animals and birds, preventing the perpetuation of imperfect
types and the spread of pestilences. It kept up a high standard of
excellence among the lesser creatures, was the great preserver of
type and perfection. Wolves having no animals to prey on them
killed the sick and weakly specimens of their own race, thereby
keeping up the standard of strength and virility. Charles John
Andersson, in his remarkable book. "The Lion and the Elephant," in
speaking of the lions of Central Africa said: "Destroy them and the
hoofed animals would perish in masses of inanition." In addition
wolves devoured bugs, insects, grubs and worms of an injurious
nature. When the white man appeared on the scene and began killing
all living things indiscriminately, the food supply of the wolves
was affected. The wolfish diet required meat, and this at times
became unobtainable. Crazed with hunger the wolves attacked calves,
pigs and sheep, which slow of motion and easily captured, occupied
the same relative position to them as had the formerly abundant
weak and imperfect deer, elk, rabbits and hares. Just as some
otherwise harmless men commit murder when crazed by lack of food,
the wolves played havoc in farm yards that otherwise they would
have left unmolested. But most of the sheep killed by "wolves" were
slain by half-wild, vicious dogs. There are fewer sheep in
Pennsylvania today than when there were wolves. What is needed is
an efficient dog law. As the result, bounties were put on the...
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