I found this documentary about wolves fascinating and touching
Living With Wolves. It ran on the Discovery Channel several years ago and featured the story of Jim and Jamie Dutcher whose project was to live in nature (in a one-room yurt-style tent) next to a pack of wolves. In 1990, Dutcher was given tiny captive wolf pups along with two wild adults and was allowed a permit to set up a 25 Acre Wolf observation camp in the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. The stated goal was not a scientific study of wolves in their natural element, but a project of the heart to see how emotionally close humans could get to a family of wolves when living in proximity 24 hours a day over a period of years. A couple of years later, when he lost his permit, he had to send the pack to the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. This is a short clip showing the emotional reunion of wolves and humans after one year of separation. The wolves still remembered them and received them with love and affection, like members of the pack.
Beautifully shot in magnificent surroundings, the entire one-and-a-half hour film is here, thanks to youtube. If you have never seen this amazing film, if you have the time, I highly recommend it. Incidentally, I think these are absolutely magnificent animals and I just cannot fathom how some individuals could not only hunt these creatures by helicopter but do it with glee.
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Wolves are dogs; dogs are wolves.
