5/24/2023 0 Comments Never cry wolf book reviewMowat's conviction that hunters, not wolves, have been responsible for the drastic reduction in caribou herds in recent years. In their turn, the caribou provide wolves with a certain number of tasty feasts. Mowat, attack only weak and sick caribou, in this way helping to insure that only the fittest caribou are around to re- create the species. One of the book's more controversial points is that wolves and caribou exist in a symbiotic relationship. Instead of finding ruthless, savage killers, Tyler discovers that wolves, though carnivorous, live mostly on a diet of mice, mate for life and are loving fathers to their cubs. Mowat's first-person narrator in the book has been transformed into a character named Tyler (Charles Martin Smith), who, like the author, is a biologist sent into the Canadian Arctic to study the habits of Arctic wolves, which were then being blamed for the wholesale slaughter of caribou. Being virtually a one-character film, and largely a straightforward record of that character's daily observations of the ways of the wolf, the film is considerably different from the melodramatic romance of Mr. CARROLL BALLARD'S ''Never Cry Wolf,'' which opens today at the Gemini 2 Theater, is a perfectly decent if unexceptional screen adaptation of Farley Mowat's best-selling book about the author's life among Arctic wolves.
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