This is a composition depicting a bear and two wolves' interaction.
Wolves and bears can coexist peacefully, they often avoid each other but their interactions can be quite violent when, for instance, they fight over animal carcasses or when a bear gets too close to the wolves' den and they may attack.
Let's leave it to the viewer's imagination why the fight depicted in this carving is happening......
The Three Howling Wolves....The center of this composition are three holwling wolves, 2 mature wolves and a cub, they are placed against the background of an evening moon lit sky and amid the bushes.
These animals never stop provoking my adoration and desire to get to know them closer and better.
I can't but remember and mention Never Cry Wolf, a book by Farley Mowat which is a real eye-opener on Wolves for us.
This sculpture carved in mammoth tusk is the author's creative design aimed at conveying the idea of mankind's wrong treatment of the wolf as a horrible and cold-blooded beast and monster who instead is a creature with delicate psychology, pack and family-oriented, kind, delicate and soft with cubs.
