![]() ![]() He didn't just lift ideas, he did a cut and paste. Never spent time alone in the arctic, never published any scientific reports, didn't write the descriptions of wolves at play, simply plagiarized from Adolph Murie one of the worlds great wolf researchers now passed away. The specifics of the lies are mind boggling. Mowat later admitted to fabricating much of his story to gain acceptance and sympathy for the wolf. The images of some actor frolicking with malamute puppies in some warm field are all that has stuck with me. I only saw a piece of it, as we had a regular shift of 16 hours and our work was walking outside. They had a copy of this film at the remote camp in the arctic where I worked in the winter of 89-90. The very successful film version by Disney was directed by the same guy as did The Black Stallion. Farley's book went on to become the sum total of all I knew about wolves for most of my life, which would still be ok except that it also become just about all anyone outside the rare confines of wolf researchers knew about wolves. Now you'd think that a book based on lies roundly mocked by the scientific community would never make it far would you. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately it's almost entirely fiction which isn't so bad for a book that calls itself an " Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves" what galls is that it is also scientifically a huge whopper. Never Cry Wolf is a great book by Farley Mowat. ![]()
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