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The Redemption of Wolf 302

From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male

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From the renowned wolf researcher and author of The Rise of Wolf 8 and The Reign of Wolf 21 comes a stunning account of an unconventional alpha male.
A lover, not a fighter. That was wolf 302. A renegade with an eye for the ladies, 302 was anything but Yellowstone's perfect alpha male. For starters, he fled from danger. He begged for food from other wolves, ditched females he'd gotten pregnant, and even napped during a heated battle with a rival pack!
But this is not the story of 302's failures. This is the story of his dramatic transformation. And legendary wolf writer Rick McIntyre witnessed it all from the sidelines.
As McIntyre closely observed with his spotting scope, wolf 302 began to mature, and, much to McIntyre's surprise, became the leader of a new pack in his old age.
But in a year when game was scarce, could the aging wolf provide for his family? Had he changed enough to live up to the legacies of the great alpha males before him?
Recounted in McIntyre's captivating storytelling voice and peppered with fascinating insights into wolf behavior, The Redemption of Wolf 302 is a powerful coming-of-age tale that will strike a chord with anyone who has struggled to make a change, big or small.
"With this third installment of Rick McIntyre's magnum opus, the scope and ambition of the project becomes clear: nothing less than a grand serialization of the first twenty years of wolves in Yellowstone, a kind of lupine Great Expectations."—Nate Blakeslee, New York Times-bestselling author of American Wolf
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      August 1, 2021
      Retired National Park ranger McIntyre continues his deeply revealing series on wolf behavior with this fine portrait of a lobo who makes good. In Yellowstone National Park, McIntyre writes, several packs compete with each other for territory and food supplies, raiding for female wolves so that--unlike wolf populations at places such as Isle Royale, Michigan--the gene pool doesn't become so shallow that natural fitness declines. In many ways, by the author's account, the wolf population of Yellowstone, first reintroduced in 1996 after having been extirpated seven decades earlier, is thriving. In this follow-up to The Reign of Wolf 21, McIntyre focuses on Wolf 302 (Yellowstone wolves are assigned numbers and not names, though names are occasionally bestowed), who initially comes across as a bit of a rou� as wolves go: He steals food from babies and mates with anything that moves. When he arrived in the Druid pack, his reputation preceded him: "The wolves in the Druid pack," writes the author, "were already acquainted with 302 because he had made frequent visits to the Druids the previous year and gotten several of 21's daughters pregnant. Their father took an instant dislike to 302 and tried to chase him off." Even so, the charmer won dad over, in part by turning on a companion wolf that was his nephew, in human terms, and attacking him to indicate that he was on the Druids' side. "I had never seen such bizarre behavior in a wolf," McIntyre writes. That wasn't the only surprise 302 would spring on his pack mates and human observers, and though he was a coward and a sneak at first, eventually he rose to the occasion and became an honorable alpha male. McIntyre tracks 302 over the course of a decade, writing of this unexpected transformation appreciatively while backing up his tendency to anthropomorphize with solid science. A great choice for anyone who has a fondness for wolves and an appreciation of good natural history.

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