Wolf Family Values

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After reading "Scared to Death" by Ed Yong and "Wolf Family Values" by Sharon Levy, I have come to the conclusion that Sharon Levy 's article presents a stronger case. Levy wrote, "But Haber argued that by focusing on population size, the establishment has ignored the fact that the hunting of wolves warps their social structure, ripping apart the family times and traditions that define wolf society…." (Levy ll 16-18) In other words, killing wolves destroys the natural family unit. Destroying even one member of a pack can greatly impact the pack as a whole. Levy wrote, "It is only in the past two decades that biologists have started to build a clearer picture of wolf ecology…. Instead of seeing rogue, man-eaters and savage packs, we now understand