Episode 39: What Good is a Wolf? PT2 More of Pimlott’s Myth Busting

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Episode 39: What Good is a Wolf? PT2 More of Pimlott's Myth Busting

In this episode, I share more o Douglas Pimlott and his researcher's ground-breaking and myth busting research on the wolves of Algonquin Park. Topics of interest include details as to how wolves move, what they eat, how they establish territory and of course wolf vocalization and the history of Algonquin's premier public wolf howls.

Musical interlude is a track from Dan Gibson's Solitudes Breaking Through the Mist album and is called Return to the Pack. It is brought to your with thanks from Digital Funding LLC. This and other of Dan Gibson's Solitudes work can be found on Apple Music, Spotify or anywhere else where music streaming is found.

The majority of the references for this episode include:

• Russell Rutter and Douglas Pimlott’s 1967 The World of the Wolf
• Pimlott, Shannon and Koolenosky’s 1969 Department of Lands and Forests Report on the Ecology of the Timber Wolf
• Various articles in a special Winter 1979 edition of the Ontario Naturalist by Lu. N Carbyn, Bruce LittleJohn’s, John Theberge & Theodor Mosquin