How realistic is this scene in jack londons white fang?
It’s certainly possible. Large predators will often kill other predators when they can, in order to reduce competition for food – lions, for example, will kill hyenas, leopards, cheetahs and African wild dogs whenever the opportunity arises. Some of these, particularly hyenas, will kill lion cubs for the same reason. A fight between a lynx and a single wolf could go either way – both are powerful animals. The wolf is a little larger, but the lynx is quicker and better armed. I have heard of incidents of packs of wolves chasing a lynx up a tree, but I imagine a single wolf would think twice before it attempted this. In ‘White Fang’, Kiche, White Fang’s mother, kills the lynx cubs because there is a famine, and this is the only food she can find. A wolf would certainly eat lynx cubs if nothing else was available, and the mother was not present to defend them. ‘White Fang’ was written over a hundred years ago, and little research had been done into the behaviour of wolves at the time. The
