Appendix III - Books about Wolves (A multilingual Selection - Links to Amazon.com)

A III.1 German books

• Zimen, E (2003): "Der Wolf: Verhalten, Okologie und Mythos" A modern classic on the general behaviour of wolves and a great ressource for everyone looking for european wolf-men-history and especially behaviour of captive individuals and packs.
• Okarma, H.; Langwald, D.: "Der Wolf - Ökologie - Verhalten - Schutz" (2002) My personal favorite and offen called the best book on wolf ecology specially in Europe.
  Hendryk Okarma is a polish ecologist working on the influence of wolves on ungulates and the wolf-men-relationship of his homecountry.
• Bibikov, D. I.: Der Wolf - Canis Lupus A classic for wolf ecology this time from a russian biologist. Despite the age of this work it still contains countless useful information on the accumulation of wolves to different bioms.
• Trumler: Meine wilden Freunde In the first half of this book Trumler introduces the genera of canidae and their evolution. The second part is about hybrids of different species of Canis and Dogs (Canis lupus familaris).
  Sadly this book is hard to find in modern book stores. My own copy was printed in a limited edition.
• Stoepel, B.: Wölfe in Deutschland (2005) A NDR report about german wolfs. This is a big source about the rediscovery of wolfs in Germany, problems and solutions.
• Langwald, D: "Fazination Wolf" A great collection of myths, tales and stories about wolfs.
  
  

A III.2 English books

• Ellis, S.; Sloan, M.: Spirit of the Wolf This is only a picture book. But since it is done by the best wolf photograph I've ever known it is amoung my favourite books. The texts are slightly over enthusiastic.
• Mech, L. D.; Boitani, L. : Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation (2003) That recent book about wolves (and red wolves) was written by the two leading wolf experts. It is the most up-to-date book about wolf ecology available so far and the most scientific too.
• Mech, L. D.: The Wolf - Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species (1981) L. D. Mech is working with wolves for many years and one of the worlds leading experts for wolf ecology. Famous are is his work with the Isle Royale packs. He cooperated with Zimen and Boitani in Italy and wrote a number of papers about northern American wolves.

A III.3 Magazin (German only)

Radinger, E: Wolfmagazin
The one and only german magazin for canides available. Since 1991 a reliable source of information on wolfs and there closer relatives in central Europe.
An additional part about international reports on wolfs can be found on the last pages.

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