Allen, Durward L.

Noted wildlife biologist and professor of wildlife Ecology at Purdue University. He is also the author of Our Wildlife Legacy.

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Probably most of us are at least vaguely aware of a universal reality in the natural world. All living things are destined to die and be recycled as part of the flow of energy through the life community. Which is to say, a creature must feed, and sooner or later it will be fed upon. Wolves of Minong, 1979

 

The biologist has a term for the progress of the seasons; he calls it phenology. It becomes a matter of habit to interpret almost any observation in terms of what has happened and what is going to happen. The present is a moment in a sequence of changes. The basis of phenology, of course, the climatic cycle through the year. Ibid.