

In 1948–1949, the Dominion Wildlife Service assigned the author to investigate the cause of declining caribou populations and determine whether wolves are to blame for the shortage.

In the book, Mowat describes his experiences in a first-person narrative that sheds light on his research into the nature of the Arctic wolf.

It has been credited for dramatically changing the public image of the wolf to a more positive one. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1983. Never Cry Wolf is a fictional account of the author's subjective experience observing wolves in subarctic Canada by Farley Mowat, first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart.
