Documentary Demo - The Wolf
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
British (England - South East - Oxford, Sussex) British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)Transcript
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but the wolf is indefensible. It senses are so acute that it can interpret what is going on around it with the degree of subtlety that is beyond our imagining. It has a loose limbed trot that is so effective and economical of energy that it can cover over 50 miles in 24 hours and do so for day after day after day. The raven is a scavenger, and wolves are not above. Joining it for the winter brings many casualties easy meat. Many walls for much of the time operate as a pack. They have such an extraordinary degree of intuition that their understanding of one another's intentions is often beyond normal explanation. Younger members learn from the older, more experienced ones so that the whole group operates as a unified and highly skilled team. For all of these reasons, human hunters everywhere have admired the wolf. Even today, the native people of the north call it the teacher on honour, its special powers with dances in Europe. When people settled down to farm, the wolves image changed from deity to devil and fertile imaginations were frightening legends around it. As farmers cleared the forests, the wolves developed a taste for livestock. The innocent lamb and savage wolf became powerful symbols within the church, which it then used to demonstrate the existence of Satan. So wolves were hunted without mercy. Eventually, they were driven out of Europe's forests, but an irrational fear of them has remained. It takes a huge commitment and great dedication to study wolves. It also takes a lot of air miles. A single pack may have a vast range hundreds of miles across. Biologist Mike Nelson is on a wolf patrol in the wilderness near the American Great Lakes. The leader of the project, Dr David Mech, has been studying wolves here for 25 years. The team seldom catches sight of the animals. Instead, they follow a pack, knots my sight, but by sound. They trapped wolves from several packs and fitted them with collars that emit different radio signals. So now, by homing in on the signal's, they've mapped the boundaries of each pack territory, boundaries that are rigorously marked and defended. On a good day