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I just watched a program last night about wolf researchers here in the U.S. living in a tent in the middle of "wolf territory" in order to study and photograph them. They raised the initial pack from babies with as little human contact as was necessary (in order not to tame them and in order to allow them to becomfortable with the presence of man) and set them free at a young age.
Later, they introduced three new cubs into the pack and throughout the whole three years, never once did they need to fear being attacked.
This was a government funded research project and when the funds ran out, they all had to get off the land.
The wolves were relocated to an Indian reservation by a tribe who considers wolves to be brethren but what became of them after their relocation was not covered in the program. (Relocation of territorial animals has been proven to be detrimental to a pack of wolves...I saw some other program on that a couple of years ago and the fictional book "Hungry for Home" by 'Asta Bowen eerily mirrors the story of the real wolves that were relocated).
The program I saw last night was probably on one of the Discovery channels and I cannot recall the name of the program but it was interesting nonetheless.
If I see it listed again, and I probably will since those channels replay the same programs over and over again and back to back for days, I'll supply you with the title of the program and precisely what channel it airs on.
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