#176 Uplifting and Heart-Wrenching Stories from Yellowstone's Alpha Wolves with 'Wolf Whisperer' Rick McIntyre
The Gabby Reece Show
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4.8 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is an author and "wolf whisperer" Rick McIntyre. Rick is a Naturalist who has been observing wolves in Yellowstone Park since they were reintegrated in 1995.
His fourth book in his wolf series, THE ALPHA FEMALE WOLF, follows female alpha 06 and her two partners, brothers 754 and 755. Rick shares the uplifting and, at times heart-wrenching stories of these wolf families. How they love, cooperate, war, survive, live and even kill. What he demonstrates through these glorious animals is not only how close we are in behavior and how similar our "family" dynamics are, but the most successful packs were the families led by the most helpful and compassionate Alphas. You would think it would be the most aggressive or savage Alphas that dominated, but the wolves remind us that together, and with love, we can live longer, and our communities can thrive with that approach. Enjoy
Timestamps:- Naming the Wolves [00:12:03]
- Reintroducing Wolves in Yellowstone [00:14:35]
- Why People Hunt Wolves [00:20:16]
- Protecting Wolves [00:24:53]
- In a “Family” of Wolves [00:38:39]
- The Story of 06 [00:41:22]
- The Physical and Emotional Aspects of Being a Witness [00:54:39]
- Mange in Wolves [00:59:55]
- Wolf Hunts [01:05:18]
- 06’s Role in the Pack [01:10:29]
- 42’s Evil Sister [01:12:01]
- Howling [01:18:27]
- Wolves’ Diet [01:25:25]
- The Day 42 Saved 21 [01:27:38]
- Threats to Wolves [01:31:15]
Book Series: Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone Series
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Gabby Rees Show where everything is an experiment. |
| 0:07.0 | When I talk to people who have never seen wolves in Yellowstone, |
| 0:13.0 | and they start asking questions, they oftentimes tell them |
| 0:16.0 | that they may not realize that they already know a lot about wolf behavior |
| 0:20.0 | because of their previous experience with dogs. |
| 0:22.0 | So that's why it's so easy. because of their previous experience with dogs. |
| 0:23.0 | So that's why it's so easy for people to relate to our walls |
| 0:27.0 | and to understand them because of their background with dogs in their lives. |
| 0:37.0 | It's my obligation to bear witness to these stories and to tell us stories so that people can really understand what the lives of Wild Walls are like and |
| 0:41.8 | my real goal in the long run is to turn around |
| 0:44.9 | attitudes toward walls. They turn around people that want to kill them and I |
| 0:49.2 | can, I'm happy to say that people have come up to me for some reason it's always women and |
| 0:55.2 | have told me that they bought some extra copies of my early books and they gave it to their |
| 1:00.4 | male friends who are anti-Wolf and I guess every time they've had a response from those men, |
| 1:06.7 | they said that it really did change them. And that's what I'm trying to do, change people. Hi everyone, welcome to the show. |
| 1:16.0 | My guest today is Rick McIntyre. |
| 1:18.4 | He has a new book out, which is the fourth in a series about wolves, |
| 1:23.0 | and it's called the Alpha Female Wolf. |
| 1:26.0 | Now I'm going to do the intro just a little bit differently. |
| 1:28.0 | I want to set the table on some things that are important. |
| 1:30.0 | This is not kind of my customary interview where we're talking to |
| 1:33.6 | doctors and scientists and like here's a million takeaways. This was a little |
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