The Rise of Wolf 8 Quotes

“Over many years of collecting data, we found that an adult wolf needs 1.4 to 2.2 adult elk carcasses per month in the winter to stay in good health. Those elk could be a combination of ones the wolf killed and ones that died of natural causes. One adult bison could substitute for perhaps three elk.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“I had often heard that dogs have an antiseptic chemical in their saliva, and I found a research report that proved their salvia kills two common forms of bacteria that infect wounds: Escherichia coli (commonly referred to as E. coli) and Streptococcus canis. If dogs have an antibacterial chemical, wolves would have it as well.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“The females make the decisions and enforce the rules.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“Alpha females set the agenda for the pack: where to den, when to go out on hunts, and where to travel.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“WOLF PACK TERRITORIES in Yellowstone average about three hundred square miles.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“Even though the park spans 2.2 million acres, an area nearly half the size of Massachusetts, there are only ten or eleven good-quality wolf territories with sufficient prey numbers to support a pack. Wolf packs in Yellowstone tend to be about ten animals. In recent years, the wolf population has averaged just one hundred, about the same number that originally lived in the area before it became a park.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“the most common cause of death for adult wolves in the park is to be killed by a rival pack.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“the failure rate can be as high as 95 percent.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“The vast majority of wolf hunts end in failure.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“the family.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“Every wolf in the pack, not just the alphas, has to pitch in and work together to defend and feed”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“feelings in humans through our body language and facial expressions, and can help us feel better just by choosing to be with us. They want to be our friend when we most need one.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“Dogs know what it is like to feel sad, lonely, neglected, or sick, can sense those”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“That face licking by wolf pups is the reason pet dogs lick the faces of their human friends when they return home. For dogs, it is a greeting, but the behavior originated with their wolf ancestors and had a different purpose: begging for food.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“wolf has four sharp canine teeth and 1,500 pounds of pressure in its jaw.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“Within a few years the aspen trees near the pen site were producing tens of thousands of surviving shoots each spring, which soon formed a forest nearly as dense as a bamboo thicket. Willows also began to flourish along Crystal Creek, and beaver, which need aspen trees and willows for food and building materials, moved in and colonized the area.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“times the estimated carrying capacity of the area. The overpopulation led to extreme overbrowsing of aspen shoots, extensive damage to willows growing along creeks and rivers, and erosion along waterways due to loss of vegetation.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“Just prior to the arrival of the wolves from Canada in 1995, there were 19,000 elk wintering in the Northern Range, nearly four times the estimated carrying capacity of the area.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“own temperature and must snuggle up to their mother to keep warm.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“Newborn wolf pups cannot regulate their”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“The top sprinting speed of an elk is around forty-five miles an hour while the maximum for a wolf is about thirty-five miles an hour.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“it is the alpha female who makes most of the decisions for the pack, such as choosing the direction of travel, and the rest of the wolves, including the alpha male, follow.”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog

“Wild wolves need an average of 10 pounds of meat per day”
― Rick McIntyre, The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog