WOLVES MADE TO COMMIT SUICIDE.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 August 1919, Page 2

WOLVES MADE TO COMMIT SUICIDE.

Wolves are a plague in Alaska,‘ where the natives aafe commonly obliged to store their food supplies on you platforms erected seven or eight feet. above the ground, thus putting them beyond the animals’ reach. M)ost ‘ingenious of all Wolf traps lis one of extreme simplicity used by the Eskimo. It consists merely of an iron spear-head——or a suitably shaped blade '01:‘ chipped flint will scrv-e—----‘which istset point upwards on‘»the E\ ice, so as ‘to become frozed securely in position. A chunk of real blubber is iwrapped about the spearhead or flint! l blade and tied‘ fast_ I ‘Alaskan wolves are inarvellously keen .on scent. _lt does not take ‘them long to find the attractive bait, about which 1 a snarling pack of them will gather, licking and chewing at the blubber. Presently one and ansther cut their tongues on the sharp edges of the flint or iron. Blood runs. They do not know that it is their own blood, -and the taste of it drives them crazy. Presenly they begin to attack each other, the weaker being overcome by the stronger. Blood flows in streams over the ice, and soon all are killed or badly Wounded. The pack is nearly destroyed. only a. few, perhaps. being able to limp away and nurse their hurts.——PlliladeTphia Ledger.