“It is beyond ridiculous that wolves need to study a human or that they are capable of it.”

— L. David Mech

On Jodi Picoult's Lone Wolf, as quoted in Tom Myrick. International Wolf Center Nominates Picoult's Lone Wolf for Scat Award http://www.wolf.org/wolves/news/pdf/picoults_release_final.pdf. IWC Scat Awards. (March 8, 2012).

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American Biologist , Ecologist 1937

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Is science in danger of sanctifying the wolf? http://www.floridalupine.org/publications/PDF/Mech-2012-Is-Science-in-Danger-of-Sanctifying-the-Wolf.pdf Biological Conservation 150 143-149 (January, 2012).