A Critical Review Of Farely Mowat's Never Cry Wolf

" On his first job as a biologist, Farely Mowat learned many things about the Arctic wolf and about himself." Mowat records his observations of wolf behavior and his account of daily life in the sparsely populated Keewatin District in Never Cry Wolf. As Mowat comes closer to the wolf world, he comes to fear with them on onslaught of bounty hunters and government exterminators out to erase the noble wolf community from the Arctic. To start, the government, followed by the trappers and the hunters, they blame that the wolves are killing the caribou, and creating a decrease in the population. To pursue this, it was proved that the caribou population has dropped of 4,000,000 in 1930 to less than 170,000 in 1963. But, yet, Mowat has observed