isle royale, an island inm lake superior has provided an important study site of wolves and their prey. in the national park service scientific monograph series 11, wolf ecology and prey relationships on isle royal, peterson gives results of many wolf-moose studyes. of special interest is the studyof the number of moose killed by wolves. in the period from 1958 to 1974, there were 296 moose deaths identified as wolf kills. the age distribution of the kills is