Living in a Landscape of Fear: How Predators Impact an Ecosystem
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Cristina Eisenberg’s book The Wolf’s Tooth .
A doe burst out of the forest and tore across the meadow, two wolves in close pursuit. This drama unfolded not twenty feet from where my young daughters and I knelt in our garden peacefully pulling weeds, our pant legs wet with morning dew. One black, the other gray, the black wolf in the lead, they closed in on the doe’s haunches. In less than two heartbeats they pierced the deep wood on the far side of the meadow, leaving a wake of quaking vegetation.
Gray Wolf – Drama – Biology – Environment – Mammalia
