"Its (dog) instincts told it a truer tale than was told to the man by the man's judgement." How might the quote from above play into the author's purpose for telling this story?

The dog is a survivor; he instinctively knows that in a contest with Nature as the opponent, one must use one's survival skills to live. The man, a greenhorn, has no survival skills.

The dog is a survivor; he instinctively knows that in a contest with Nature as the opponent, one must use one's survival skills to live. The man, a greenhorn, has no survival skills. He instead dies.