Animal Book Club December 2019

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"The astonishing true story of one of the first wolves to roam Yellowstone in more than 60 years."

Animal Book Club December 2019: The Rise of Wolf 8


By Zazie Todd, PhD

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In December, the Animal Book Club is reading The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog by Rick McIntyre with a foreword by Robert Redford.

From the book's description,
"Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves―but park rangers killed the last of their kind in the 1920s. Decades later, the rangers brought them back, with the first wolves arriving from Canada in 1995. 
This is the incredible true story of one of those wolves. 
Wolf 8 struggles at first―he is smaller than the other pups, and often bullied―but soon he bonds with an alpha female whose mate was shot. An unusually young alpha male, barely a teenager in human years, Wolf 8 rises to the occasion, hunting skillfully, and even defending his family from the wolf who killed his father. But soon he faces a new opponent: his adopted son, who mates with a violent alpha female. Can Wolf 8 protect his valley without harming his protégé?"
This (and many other great books about animals) are available in my Amazon store: https://www.amazon.com/shop/animalbookclub

The Rise of Wolf 8 (book cover)


For more information about the book club or the separate Animal Books Facebook group, visit the Animal Book Club page.

P.S. Companion Animal Psychology t-shirts are 10% off through Monday 2nd December with this link.

Zazie Todd, PhD, is the author of Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy. She is the founder of the popular blog Companion Animal Psychology, where she writes about everything from training methods to the human-canine relationship. She also writes a column for Psychology Today and has received the prestigious Captain Haggerty Award for Best Training Article in 2017. Todd lives in Maple Ridge, BC, with her husband and two cats.

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