Wolves and Humans

Jill Missal / Wolf Song of Alaska Volunteer In the last installment of our series on the development of the wolf’s bad reputation, we discussed the roots of human’s unfounded fear of the wolf. We told of werewolf fables and folktales involving the wolf, and you may have wondered just how much impact such old […]

Jennifer Viegas / Discovery News / June 3, 2005 The domestication of dogs has caused them to acquire some uniquely human characteristics, an animal behaviouralist says. And we’re getting more tuned into what goes on in the minds of our canine companions, says Professor Vilmos Csányi, chair of the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd

Edwin Wollert / Education Coordinator / Wolf Song of Alaska Many visitors to Alaska are unfamiliar with the ancient notion of subsistence hunting, and that it continues in many parts of the world other than the 49th state, especially in Africa, Australia, and parts of Southeast Asia.  Here, however, is the last part of the

Rik Pfaelzer / Wolf Song of Alaska Volunteer A long time ago when I was young, my grandmother would tell me stories from the “Old Country” to make me sleepy. I enjoyed and remember them all. They were very special times for me. Here are a few of those stories: It was once told that

Edwin Wollert / Wolf Song of Alaska / Education Coordinator Previous versions of this article have appeared on the Wolf Song of Alaska website, and have also been submitted to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. I tell my philosophy students on the first day of each semester in every course I teach that

Julie Forbes  / The Examiner / April 18, 2009 I have been thinking a lot about dogs and people and how the two species fit into society together.  The most popular theory about how dogs came to live with people as pets suggest that they chose us, as opposed to us having chosen them. Wolves

Heraldry started centuries ago as a form of picture writing, which enabled one man to be distinguished from another. Over the years this picture writing developed into devices, which differentiated armed warriors both in tournament and during battle. This method of identity was essential in times when many people could neither read nor write. Nowadays

Jill Missal, Wolf Song of Alaska Volunteer The precise origins of man’s unusual fear of the wolf are obscure. The wolf is human’s most feared animal, even though there has never been a verified account of a healthy wild wolf attacking and killing a human in North America. There have been many maulings caused by

Ivy Stanmore / Sydney, Australia / Wolf Song of Alaska Member Wolves are mentioned many times in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, though it is the saints of the early Christian centuries who are most frequently connected with wolves and usually in a sympathetic context.  These early saints used wolves as

Edwin Wollert / Education Coordinator / Wolf Song of Alaska There exists a curious feature of human child-raising which is not found among other primates, including the other “great apes:” besides humans, this includes chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. This element is our family structure: humans are the only great apes who tend to group in specific