Episode 42:What Good is a Wolf PT3 - John and Mary Theberge’s Great Leap

Episode 42:What Good is a Wolf  PT3 -  John and Mary Theberge's Great Leap

This episode focuses on the  1987-1999 groundbreaking work of Dr. John Theberge and Mary Theberge. A student of Douglas Pimlott in the 1960s, John Theberge was a professor and researcher in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, from 1972 until his retirement in 2000. His initial interest in wolves involved work on wolf vocalizations (published with WRS’s Dr. Falls in 1967 and on observations about their behavior in the summer of 1969). His wife and research partner Mary Theberge was a key fieldwork contributor, an expert in aerial telemetry and satellite imagery interpretation, and very skilled in wolf vocalization. 

The list of references that have informed much of these two episodes include:

• John and Mary Theberge’s 1998 book Wolf Country
• https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/89/4/1067/868475
• Theberge, J. B., and M. T. Theberge. 2004. The Wolves of Algonquin Park, A 12-year Ecological Study, University of Waterloo, Department of Geography
• Several Raven Newsletter articles including:
  • Kill the Wolves and Kill the Park. Aug 5, 1993, Vo 34, #7
  • Is Algonquin Big Enough For Its Most Famous Animal? June 26, 1997, Vol 38 NO 2
  • The Best Wolf is a Wild Wolf. August 14, 1997, Vol 28 No 9
  • A Wolfian Trilogy - Part 1: The Bite that Shook our Faith July 15, 1999, Vol 40 # 4
  • A Wolf Trilogy Part 3: You Read it Here First July 29, 1999, Vol. 40 No. 6

This musical interlude is another wolf track called “In the Den” from Dan Gibson’s Solitudes Legend of the Wolf CD and brought to us with the approval of Digital Funding LLC.  Solitudes music can be found where ever you get your music streaming.