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Title: "Never Cry Wolf" is fiction masquerading as non-fiction
Review: "Never Cry Wolf" is a great story, but sadly, it's a work of fiction that's been inaccurately sold as non-fiction. Mowat has never provided evidence to refute the investigations in Canada that uncovered the fictional nature of "Never Cry Wolf". For an accurate description of wolf biology, read the works of respected wolf biologists such as L. David Mech. As Mech says in his book "The Wolf", Mowat's "Never Cry Wolf" is a good counterbalance to the "Little Red Riding Hood" portrayal of wolves as vicious man eaters... yet neither story is grounded in fact. Among the gross errors in Mowat's book was his contention that wolf packs can subsist on a diet of small rodents. No wolf biologist has found such a wolf population. It may not be PC to say that wolves subsist primarily on large ungulates that they hunt down and kill, but it's the truth.
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