Screen retrieval: “Jon & Ghost” Symbology Cinematics, youtube.com, from Game of Thrones
The Lobo Story
Lobo Rex Currumpæ, Gray Wolf, died of a broken heart this date January 31, 1894, somewhere along the Corrumpa Creek watershed, Union County, New Mexico. He was the hero of the Seton story, “Lobo, the King of Currumpaw.”
The loss of the Westeros Dire Wolves has doubtless brought a tear to many a reader and viewer. How much sadder, destruction of the wild ones of our world.
The howl of the Wolf has been gone from northern New Mexico for a long time. It can sometimes be heard in the Gila River country of southern New Mexico and Arizona.
Researchers in Yellowstone National Park are working to understand wolf language.
Here are abridged comments on Wolf language from Seton.
“The usual call of the wolf is a long smooth howl. It is quite musical, though decidedly eerie when heard in the woods at night…. Its beginning is much like the hoot of a horned owl. This is usually the ‘muster’ or ‘rallying cry’—the intimation of the Wolf to his friends that he has found game too strong for him to manage alone….
A second sound is a higher pitched howl, vibrating on two notes. This may be styled the ‘hunting song’….
A third is a combination of a short bark and a howl. It seems to mean ‘closing in’ for a finish. There are several others that I have often heard, but cannot comprehend.” (Lives of Game Animals, Vol. I, pg. 283.)
Thirty-one years after killing Lobo, a changed Seton wrote: “can anyone wonder that I love the Gray-wolf and credit him with true nobility of character—with the attributes of a splendid animal hero?” (Lives of Game Animals, Vol. I, pg. 337.)