Hey who knows? I'm merely suggesting that you have an open mind ST and tolerate the possibility that you might be wrong thats all. I'm no wolf expert and in fact have only seen one in the wild when it chased a moose into a lake in Algonquin. Pretty cool.....sounded like a house falling into the water and Mr Wolf bouncing excitedly on the bank.

That was only the first thing I came across after a brief search. Thanks for the bio......seems like my kind of guy ;) As I have mentioned before I have read about this sort of behavior several times in the numerous books I have on the Arctic, Canadian and polar regions. Are they making stuff up? I rather doubt it........I think that wolves, like lots of carnivores, go on killing sprees and such sprees aren't uncommon in the least. The carnage I described earlier from one of my readings was actually worse than I related. According to the author the caribou run a gauntlet of various packs during the annual migration and are chased continually with the wolves clipping the hamstrings. True? I don't know for sure but it is a rather old book written long ago before there was any agendas and the caribou herds were thick indeed.

One thing I will agree with you on is while wolves may be bloodthirsty (it is after all what they eat) I don't believe they are into continual slaughter all the time. Way to much chance of getting injured.......so they pick their moments, when there is a decided advantage and the odds of getting injured are slim.

The major point of the authors article (besides the few paragraphs where he relates incidences of wolves killing because they can) was rather alarming from a sportsman point of view and makes perfect sense. Keep the wolves on the endangered species list, convince the public they are little more than a larger version of their pet German Shepherd, and then ban hunting through the courts using data biologists gather stating that there isn't enough game for wolves and hunters. Hunters will have to give way.......very common strategy for all sorts of causes just plug in different names.

But enough about wolves.......have you ever seen the movie "The House of the Flying Daggers"? A Kung Fu movie but it is so cool. The costumes, the colors, the music, the stylized fighting scenes. And the plot.......a little hard to follow but it has it all.......love, betrayal, loyalties are tested. Sure its over the top but very entertaining and eye candy. Rent it or buy it used.......its around.

Hey wait a minute......we hi-jacked Jax's thread (say that 5 times fast ;) ). Not sure I get the fish and sleep out of the same hut. Sounds complicated........I think I need some pics.