ABSTRACT
We humans seem to have had an uneasy relationship with wolves (Canis lupus) from our beginnings. When our species lived closer to nature, people respected and even revered the wolf. The fact that we domesticated wolves to create dogs gives some idea of the early relationships between the ape and canid. As cultures began living in agricultural settlements, they took less note of the natural world. In the Old World, people even began to fear the wolf although no parallel to that existed in the New World.
