ument about government action and when it is and is not acceptable in this context. Mowat reports the slaughter of a number of wolves by white hunters and finds that the government does not share his view--the government raises the bounty a few weeks later (Mowat 158). Mowat refers to these hunters as the "sports," and they are the same sort he refers to earlier as having more influence over government policy than a scientist such as himself.
The author points out the distance between his normal environment and that of the wolf in the opening of the book: "It is a long way in space and time from the bathroom of my Grandmother Mowat's house in Oakville, Ontario, to the bottom of a wolf den in the Barren Lands of central Keewatin" (Mowat 1).
Indeed, as Mowat explains in the book, he has a natural habitat just as the wolves do, and, when he invades their environment, he does no
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