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Wonder Cabinet

In the Company of Wolves

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This hour, we'll explore our complicated relationships with our canine cousins -- wolves, coyotes, and dogs -- and the feelings they evoke -- fear, hatred and also love. What If Your Best Friend Is A Wolf?; How Coyotes Won The War We've Waged On Them; A Lesson in Resilience From Markoe's Best Friend; Revealing the Aristocratic Lifestyles of "Monster Dogs".

Transcript

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0:00.0

Support for WPR comes from Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona, presenting 10 exhibitions per year,

0:06.7

and home to masterworks by Monet, O'Keefe, and Loitza's Washington Crossing the Delaware.

0:12.2

M.M.A.m.org.

0:15.1

It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX.

0:19.1

I'm Anne Strain Champs, and I'm looking for wolves.

0:23.0

So this is the signal from Alpha Female 926.

0:27.0

She's the daughter of the O6 female.

0:31.8

I got to see her chase a mountain lying up a tree this winter.

0:36.2

Have you ever done that?

0:37.7

No, I guess.

0:42.3

The best place in the world to see wolves is Yellowstone National Park.

0:48.3

And the best person to see them with is Rick McIntyre.

0:51.9

He's a wolf biologist, and he knows the park's wolves like no one else.

1:00.3

I'm like a parent that would die if they missed any of their kids' recitals or baseball games or whatever.

1:07.9

I mean, they have to be there to see everything.

1:12.5

I did have one stretch where I was out every single day for over 15 years. The reason why I didn't go beyond 15 is I

1:20.2

had to have a hard bypass operation. But I was back in the field on the eighth day after the

1:26.4

operation and I've been out every day since.

1:28.8

It never gets tiring? It never gets boring?

1:31.5

No. It would kill me to miss a day.

1:36.6

The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone

1:39.1

is one of the greatest conservation success stories in history.

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