|Part One (RealAudio 2.0 14.4 )|
Audio: Wind, birds, cricketsTen years ago, no one would've expected to see a wolf in this spot. Camp Ripley - near Little Falls in
|Part One (RealAudio 2.0 14.4 )|
Audio: Wind, birds, cricketsTen years ago, no one would've expected to see a wolf in this spot. Camp Ripley - near Little Falls in central Minnesota - was too far south. Besides, it's a military base. The artillery they fire here rattles windows 20 miles away. And what kind of wolf would share its space with army tanks?
Audio: Big old tank lumbering by, birds/bugs/windActually, the military presence is one of the reasons this study is remarkable - you'll see why in a minute. We're parked in a spot state biologists have come to call "Wolf Junction." There's a full-fledged pack nearby, with young ones almost ready to declare independence and set off on their own. They're shy this morning. Sometimes researcher Bill Brown knows they're close not by sight or by sound - but by smell.
Brown: Like a real musky dog, they roll in a lot of matter. And what they eat - they do eat some carrion, and they pick that up.Brown is h