Blogs by Kalikiano Kalei
Assignations with Romeo...a wolf.
11/10/2018 2:19:03 PM
Author, naturalist and photographer Nick Jans wrote a wonderful book about Juneau Alaska's famed 'friendly Black Wolf', named 'Romeo. It was originally published in 2014. I came across it recently and was so impressed by Romeo's (admittedly tragic) story that I prepared a review of it for AMAZON books. That review was rejected (probably by an AMAZON screening algorithm, not a real person), but I am still curious as to what others might think about this. Please read the review (attached) and if you care to, give me your opinion on why you feel it may have been rejected.
ASSIGNATIONS WITH ROMEO, A BLACK WOLF
After recently completing a read of author, naturalist and photojournalist Nick Jans’ wonderful book (‘A Wolf Called Romeo’) on a wild Black Wolf that emerged from the wild to become a friend of many dogs and people in Juneau (AK), back in 2006, I contacted Nick to pay my respects (both to him, for his book, and posthumously to the subject of that book, ‘Romeo’).
Nick is an engaging and vastly experienced outdoorsman who spent many years in the more rugged parts of Alaska capturing unique images of bears, wolves and other wild animal denizens of our 49th State. He suggested that I write a review of his book, since I obviously enjoyed it so much. I agreed and set forth on putting my thoughts and reflections down on paper.
After it had been completed, I submitted it to AMAZON, the purveyor of a great number of my book acquisitions. Expecting the usual, bland “Your review has been posted” response, I was a bit non-plussed to be notified that my review ‘does not meet AMAZON’S guidelines’, etc., etc.
I’m uncertain as to exactly what their objections are based upon. The perpetrator of this wonderful, unique wolf’s execution was clearly both an misanthrope and a cretin (both words used to describe him, as was the descriptive ‘scum’).
The evidence brought out in his travesty of a trial made that clear and inarguable. He had even gone on record as stating (to the investigators) that he had killed the wolf “…because I know it will cause a lot of anguish in the (Juneau) community.” According to police investigators, “…he seemed to derive a lot of pleasure out of doing something specifically designed to hurt people in this way.” The thrill, Peacock made clear to anyone willing to listen (to his bragging about the event to associates), lay not in the chase but in the killing and the suffering he caused.”
This man was an illegal killer of other animals as well, including several small bear clubs and despite coming from a supposedly ‘established’ family in Pennsylvania, he had a record of encounters with the law relating to his hunting proclivities.
The plan to kill Romeo the Black Wolf took on more of an air of a gangland hit (according to author Nick Jans) than an illicit hunt, and Peabody (the shooter) had even left his high-powered hunting rifle at home, bringing instead a high-velocity 22 calibre rifle purposely intended to cause less noise. He testified that he found the wolf where he expected him to be and, because the wolf was so accustomed to the presence of people, he had had a clear shot, bringing Romeo down with a single shot that hit him in the heart (there were no witnesses there at the time). Romeo managed to get about 20 yards from the site where he was hit before the mortal heart wound ended his life. When Peabody approached him, he took out his knife and cut Romeo’s throat after sending additional 22 calibre rounds into him at point-blank range.
He then removed Romeo’s hide and took that, along with his head, to a compliant taxidermist (where it was later recovered as evidence).
Far from ever showing any remorse, or even awareness of the cruel nature of his actions, Peabody later used every trick in the book to evade any responsibility for this crime, after recanting his original testimony and allowing his shrewd attorney to engineer a plea-bargain that (once the case went to trial) resulted in little more than a slap on the wrist.
Clearly, this pathetic specimen of a man was indeed both an immoral cretin and a misanthropic, cruelly heartless scum. In thinking about this, I am reminded of the adolescent king named Joeffrey in the HBO series ‘Game of Thrones’, who was maliciously cruel by an order of magnitude. Peabody was of the same ilk: someone who enjoys causing suffering and agony in others.
Due to the pro-hunting nature of the Alaskan Wildlife Commission and the lax nature of the judge who tried the case, a number of serious charges were actually dropped, while others were reduced to misdemeanors.
Unbelievably, Peabody eventually managed to avoid both jail-time and financial penalties and after a time left Alaska to return to his home in Pennsylvania. It is reported that his Grandmother, who was ‘well connected’ in that state, pulled strings to ease his circumstances even further and there was apparently no problem with court costs or other considerations. He was even caught pushing illegal marijuana, after the wolf execution.
Heartless monsters like Peabody exist all around us in our supposedly ‘civilised’ society and yet when they carry out extreme breeches of normative humane behavior such as this, our legal system more often than not lets them get away with murder on a technicality…if they have enough power, influence and/or money to employ the many means that are available to the wealthy or influential.
At any rate, I refuse to pull my punches in describing Peabody the way I have, since he clearly deserves this sort of shameful regard. That being the case, perhaps AMAZON objected to my digressions of a philosophic nature…a tendency I am well known for. If that’s the cause of this rejection, I might agree that I used the review as a sort of ‘bully pulpit’ for exhorting my personal philosophical take on the morally despicable characteristics of humanity. I should have stuck to the subject and refrained from the soapbox grandstanding.
At any rate, I leave it to you to make this determination. I’d be interested in hearing what anyone has to say about the matter. The rejection (and the review in question) appears below.
Another take on things is that if AMAZON appears to take PC doctrine to heart so completely, perhaps Jeff Bezos and his colossal empire needs to experience a small reality check or two. AMAZON may have its usefulness, but when all the compensatory corporate horse exhaust is cleared away, what is AMAZON after all but just another heartless (if particularly powerful) corporation, bent on suctioning the money from our pockets and bank accounts?
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from Kalikiano Kalei on November 9, 2018
A true story about wolves that you will treasure
Although the following is about Nick Jans’ excellent and touching account of the Black Wolf of Juneau called ‘Romeo’, permit me a bit of personal backstory to provide some context of appreciation within which I recommend Nick’s accounting of that magnificent wolf named Romeo.
My interest in wolves began many years ago while I was an undergrad in Berkeley. An omnivorous reader, I quickly stumbled across Austrian animal behavioralist Konrad Lorenz and his important work with imprinting. From there, I quickly became fascinated by the parallels between certain modern domestic dog breeds (Spitz types) and thus began a lifelong love of both Siberian Husky dogs and wild wolves. Since those early days and after many years of work with husky type breeds (and related northern working breeds), I have developed a huge respect for the wild relatives of those wonderful dogs that so closely resemble wolves.
In the course of a recent immersion in my wolf interests, I came across Jans’ book about Romeo, a spectacularly unique Black Wolf who stepped out of the wild environment wolves normally prefer to befriend both dogs and man. The protagonist (Romeo) serves allegorically as a mirror of both the best and the worst of human qualities in that educated, reflective and empathetic individuals were quickly drawn to him, just as the ignorant, moronic dregs of humanity were repelled by him. This extraordinary wolf survived and seemingly thrived, despite all adverse odds and antipathies, for a number of years right on the very edge of Juneau’s populated suburbs, gaining an extensive following among Juneau’s residents and becoming something of a local legend.
Tragically, he met his demise when a severely misanthropic non-Alaskan (in collusion with a Juneau local) cretin deliberately stalked and killed him in 2009. Unbelievably, after a travesty of a legal proceeding, both of these low-life scum were released with barely more than a slap on the wrist.
Despite the incredibly sad outcome, Romeo the Black Wolf lives on in the memories and hearts of those who came to love him, thanks to the work of Jans and several others, and establishment of a memorial to him that was subsequently installed in Juneau.
Jans, the author of this memorable story and a respected writer, naturalist and photographer, has put his considerable skill as a writer to work in creating what is both a masterfully engaging and heart-felt work that will be appreciated by a wide range of individuals. He has also succeeded in combining important nuances of Canus lupus natural history with the actual history of Romeo’s behavioral interactions with dogs and people in the Juneau community; he has done it such that you are easily drawn into taking a greater interest in wolves as an utterly fascinating species that richly deserve our study and understanding, not to mention our respect.
Domestication of the domestic dog (Canus familiaris) is a process that is estimated to have taken anywhere from 13,000 to as much as 50,000 or more years and despite the passage of all that time, our modern domestic dogs still share an estimated 99.98% of their genetic raw material with wild wolves. That is nothing short of astounding! Other information guaranteed to interest the reader is that fact that Black Wolves (only found in North America and not in the rest of the world) have been genetically shown to be the result of wolves interbreeding with domestic dogs in ancient times, since the black coloration is a genetic mutation found in dogs (and not in wolves).
Therefore, when we witness what we would characterise as ‘typical’ domestic dog qualities (such as ‘the play bow’, fetching and play with objects, etc.) in a wolf (such as Romeo), it certainly provokes a number of questions about that admixing of wild wolves and domestic dogs. Animal geneticists have only recently begun to penetrate some of these mysteries and through his book, Nick Jans draws us further into a process of appreciating what admirably complex and superbly adapted creatures wolves actually are. As well as an appreciation of what a bad rap they have received throughout human history.
Speaking for myself, for a moment, I have always maintained that Mother Nature would be far better off if Homo sapiens were encouraged to become extinct, given the polar dual-nature of human beings. That is to say, human beings are capable both of rising to breathtaking heights of ethical and moral benevolence and to depths of near-unimaginable cruelty, wickedness and savagery. It is our nature, both genetically and socially.
The German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 – 1814) perfectly summarized this by observing that “Man is the cruelest enemy of man”, but he could just as easily have extended that thought by adding “…and all living things”.
Accordingly (in my opinion), only when humanity finally dies out and a more perfected ‘highest evolved sentient being’ is evolved, will the world regain the balance that mankind has so catastrophically disrupted by its presence.
Wolves are brilliantly evolved, perfect adapted natural creatures, incapable of the sort of perverse behavior demonstrated by human beings; mankind, with the blessing/curse of his far more massive cerebral frontal lobe, is just as often as not a malignant force in this much-beset world we share with all living creatures.
In the story of Romeo, the wild wolf that naturally enjoyed being around dogs and people, we see both parts of this frustrating human dual-nature at work: those enlightened individuals who appreciate the uniqueness and brilliance of what wild wolves are and have evolved into, and those who see them only as dangerous and savage creatures that are fit only to be killed. When that latter aspect of human nature is combined with gratuitously malicious cruelty and misanthropic ignorance, we have the sort of ‘American hunter’ mentality that regards killing of animals as mere blood-sport for pleasure; contrast this to the German custom of honoring and respecting the wild animals that they kill…a tradition that has elaborate standards and ethics that must be upheld. There is a world of difference!
I’m sorry if this personal outlook of mine offends anyone, but it is important to reflect upon all these considerations whenever we (humans) interact with wild animals. Nick Jans does a great service to us all in reminding us of our obligation to aspire to higher and nobler purposes in all things, but especially with regard to our interactions with the animal kingdom (which we, ironically, are a part of).
Beyond all these deeper concerns, I cannot recommend Jans’ book ‘A Wolf Called Romeo’ highly enough, for it sets a benchmark for us in its delineation of how special wolves are and why we should regard them with the greatest respect as we go about our own lives.
Next time you doubt this, just take another look at your own ‘domesticated pseudo-wolf’ there, curled up by your feet, and think about all that shared wolf DNA!
Better yet, do as I did: buy several copies of this wonderful book and give them to selected friends!
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