The wolf's conception has been altered significantly in modern times as a result of the emergence of Ecocriticism. The old conceptions of the wolf as sly, vicious, and terrifying have largely replaced by a humanizing attitude. The paper deals in details with how Mowat humanizes the wolves and shows them having "individual impersonalities" by the following techniques: giving them names; acknowledging their social life; assigning them emotions; talking; imitating them; and finally animalizing

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... ns. By assigning human features to those wolves, Mowat believes that humans can understand wolves' true behavior; and increase people's chance to properly help wolves to live well with them.