The Myth of the Alpha Wolf

Re:The Myth of the Alpha Wolf by dkarl on Saturday March 25, 2023 @03:00PM (#35305906)

That's a bizarre standard to judge an animal by. Do you think bears and moose, or wolves not habituated to humans, are less "wonderful" because you can't cuddle with them?

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Re:The Myth of the Alpha Wolf by sillysaurusx on Saturday March 25, 2023 @03:04PM (#35305934)

I think so. If you can’t cuddle with an animal then they’re significantly less wonderful. Majestic, perhaps, but there’s nothing like fluffy cuddles.

Bears are sometimes pretty cool. There’s a lady on tiktok that scratches one behind the ears with a rake whenever it shows up. Which is apparently a frequent thing for her. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRv5qd55/

Somehow she trained it to sit… https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRv5yDQk/

But I don’t think bears are domesticatable through selective breeding, whereas there’s some evidence that wolves are.

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Re:The Myth of the Alpha Wolf by standardUser on Saturday March 25, 2023 @04:09PM (#35306741)

Not all animals are able to be domesticated, right? Wolves are, so something must separate them from other un-domesticatable animals.

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