Wolves and Whales “The story of Little Red Riding Hood may serve to caution mothers not to send their young daughters on dangerous errands as well as to teach little girls not to stray from the straight path, be their intentions ever so laudable. In no circumstances, though, may it be used … for instructing zoologists in the anatomy of wolves.” Yehuda T. Radday, “Rivers of Paradise,” 29 “When Melville wrote Moby Dick, the central concern of his work was not whaling per se so much as the effect of