Demonstrates how portrayals of wolves as predatory creatures has influenced how the species is treated, exploring negative wolf depictions in culture and folklore while explaining the wolf's important ecological role.
Feared and revered, the wolf has been admired as a powerful hunter and symbol of the wild and reviled for its danger to humans and livestock. Garry Marvin reveals in Wolf how the ways in which wolves are imagined has had far-reaching implications for how actual wolves are treated by humans.