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Animal Heroes
·
Ernest Thompson Seton
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Wolves
are
quick
to
learn
certain
things.
The
reactions
of
smell
are
the
greatest
that
a
Wolf
can
feel,
and
thenceforth
both
Cub
and
foster-mother
experienced
a
quick,
unreasoning
sense
of
fear
and
hate
the
moment
the
smell
of
strychnine
reached
them.
IV
THE
RUDIMENTS
OF
WOLF
TRAINING
With
the
sustenance
of
seven
at
his
service
the
little
Wolf
had
every
reason
to
grow,
and
when
in
the
autumn
he
began
to
follow
his
mother
on
her
hunting
trips
he
was
as
tall
as
she
was.
Now
a
change
of
region
was
forced
on
them,
for
numbers
of
little
Wolves
were
growing
up.
Sentinel
Butte,
the
rocky
fastness
of
the
plains,
was
claimed
by
many
that
were
big
and
strong;
the
weaker
must
move
out,
and
with
them
Yellow
Wolf
and
the
Dusky
Cub.
Wolves
have
no
language
in
the
sense
that
man
has;
their
vocabulary
is
probably
limited
to
a
dozen
howls,
barks,
and
grunts
expressing
the
simplest
emotions;
but
they
have
several
other
modes
of
conveying
ideas,
and
one
very
special
method
of
spreading
information--the
Wolf-telephone.
Scattered
over
their
range
are
a
number
of
recognized
"centrals."
Sometimes
these
are
stones,
sometimes
the
angle
of
cross-trails,
sometimes
a
Buffalo-skull--indeed,
any
conspicuous
object
near
a
main
trail
is
used.
A
Wolf
calling
here,
as
a
Dog
does
at
a
telegraph
post,
or
a
Muskrat
at
a
certain
mud-pie
point,
leaves
his
body-scent
and
learns
what
other
visitors
have
been
there
recently
to
do
the
same.
He
learns
also
whence
they
came
and
where
they
went,
as
well
as
something
about
their
condition,
whether
hunted,
hungry,
gorged,
or
sick.
By
this
system
of
registration
a
Wolf
knows
where
his
friends,
as
well
as
his
foes,
are
to
be
found.
And
Duskymane,
following
after
the
Yellow
Wolf,
was
taught
the
places
and
uses
of
the
many
signal-stations
without
any
conscious
attempt
at
teaching
on
the
part
of
his
foster-mother.
Example
backed
by
his
native
instincts
was
indeed
the
chief
teacher,
but
on
one
occasion
at
least
there
was
something
very
like
the
effort
of
a
human
parent
to
guard
her
child
in
danger.
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