Dan Flores
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4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Inferences from the Bible were that wolves were a part of the fallen earth Adam and his progeny inherited when he was expelled from the garden.
Looking deeply into a wolf's eyes could also be a disconcerting reminder of something good Judeo-Christians tried their best to avoid thinking about.
To paraphrase the British ecologist Melanie Challenger,
The earth was now dominated by an animal who was doing his best to convince himself and everyone else that he was not actually an animal.
That animal origin we share with wolves is one reason they make us so anxious.
In his 1920s novel, Steppenwolf, the German writer Hermann Hesse put the matter this way.
He calls himself part wolf, part man.
With the man, he packs in everything spiritual and sublimated or even cultivated to be found in himself.
And with the wolf, all that is instinctive, savage, chaotic.
As a good European, Hesse didn't understand enough about wolves to reference their real emotional lives, their loyalty and tenderness to packs and mates and offspring.
But he knew that wolves remind us of the animal nature we humans deny or believe we've escaped.
That was a problem for us, but much more of a problem for wolves.
Except in Alaska...
By the mid-20th century, we Americans had endangered all our wolves everywhere.
Federal wolf killers Stanley Young and E.A.
Goldman's famous book, The Wolves of North America, proudly proclaimed victory by the 1940s.
By then, wolves were entirely gone in the east from New England to Virginia.
The Rocky Mountain states, with all their public lands, barely held 100 wolves.
California's last wolves were down to fewer than 50.
There were only 60 Mexican wolves left in the southwest.
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