Thinking Like a Wolf: Lessons From the Yellowstone Packs
Oct 2024 · Greystone Books Ltd
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Book Five in the Award-Winning “Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone” series
“Rick’s writing is so vivid, so powerful, that I feel I have been right there with him among the wolves of Yellowstone.”—Jane Goodall
Following eight major wolf personalities, Thinking Like a Wolf draws on decades of field notes to uncover the challenges and triumphs of Yellowstone’s wolf packs, from the “chief historian of the most famous wolf population in the world” (Washington Post).
In his latest book, award-winning author and renowned wolf researcher, Rick McIntyre, explores the intricate world of wolf behavior in Yellowstone National Park and highlights the individual character traits that allow wolf packs to thrive.
Unveiling power struggles, pack politics, the roles of family protection, inter-pack conflicts, and more, Rick skillfully follows the intricacy of packs and the unique attributes each wolf has. In these true stories, he celebrates the many lessons we can learn from wolf packs and the dynamic personalities that enable them to expand across new territories amidst adversity.
Weaving an impressive web of politics and power, family cooperation and commitment, rivalry and resilience, Thinking Like a Wolf provides readers with a unique window into the fascinating inner workings of wolf packs.
Book Five in the Award-Winning “Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone” series
“Rick’s writing is so vivid, so powerful, that I feel I have been right there with him among the wolves of Yellowstone.”—Jane Goodall
Following eight major wolf personalities, Thinking Like a Wolf draws on decades of field not...
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Nina Phillips
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November 3, 2025
I received a free copy of this audiobook via NetGalley and Tantor Media and I am voluntarily leaving a review. I went to college for Conservation Biology in Colorado during the period wolf reintroductions were a very hot topic. Several of my teachers actually traveled around the US and to DC to talk about the process. So I already knew quite a bit about the whole situation. But getting to listen to a personal account decades in the making of a man who had seen generations of these wolves first hand was something else. I learned quite a bit about the packs and wolves in general that I hadn't known, and it's a great overview of the importance of wolves, the misunderstandings people have about these animals, and their lives in general. I did find it a pretty general overview, covering so many animals in such a short time, so if you don't know much about the packs, it may be worth checking out some of his other stories that focus on just a couple of the wolves first.
About the author
Rick McIntyre is a wolf behaviorist who has spent more than forty years watching wild wolves in America’s national parks, twenty-eight of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 wolf sightings and educated the public about the park’s wolves. He is retired from the National Park Service and is currently a faculty affiliate at the University of Montana.
Frans de Waal was a primatologist and ethologist. He was the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory, and author of numerous books including Mama’s Last Hug and Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.
Rick McIntyre is a wolf behaviorist who has spent more than forty years watching wild wolves in America’s national parks, twenty-eight of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 wolf sightings and educated the public about the park’s wolves. He is retired from the Natio...
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