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Biologist Aims to Demystify Wolf and Moose

Saturday, May 06, 2006 8:02:11 PM
By JOHN FLESHER

Wildlife biologist Rolf Peterson stands atop an observation tower on Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior in this May 20, 2004,  photo, holding an antenna he uses to track collared wolves in his three-decade long study of  the predator-prey relationship between the two species. Peterson is planning to retire as a professor but says he'll continue with his research. (AP Photo/John Flesher)TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Rolf Peterson has watched a bleeding female wolf struggle to survive, helped by a turncoat male from the rival pack that had mauled and left her for dead.

He and his wife have spent three decades of summers in an old fishing cabin without electricity or running water so he could do field work such as gathering moose bones and scouting wolf dens.

He has chronicled with endless fascination the not-so-peaceful coexistence between wolves and moose on Isle Royale, a wilderness national park in Lake Superior whose isolation provides a rare setting for predator and prey to interact with minimal human contact.


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