Wolves and Humans

Of Wolves and Words

Why use beautiful animals as a metaphor for evils wrought by humankind? Jarid Manos / Fort Worth Weekly / August 24, 2005  I appreciated the Weekly’s recent cover story exposing unscrupulous mortgage lenders, but I have to take issue with the title “Wolves in Small Print.” Western civilization has had a hysterical fear of wolves […]

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Breaking from the Pack

History from a wolf’s perspective? or a cow’s? A new breed of thinkers looks beyond Homo sapiens The Lost Wolves of Japan NEWFOUND PERSPECTIVES: In his book The Lost Wolves of Japan, Brett L. Walker notes that his experiences observing wolves in Yellowstone National Park helped him recognize that Japan’s wolves were living and breathing creatures

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Wolves Teaching Humans

Edwin Wollert / Education Coordinator / Wolf Song of Alaska Did you know?… …that some ancient “dogs” probably taught earlier humans some essential tricks? Wolf Song of Alaska has always maintained that humans stand to learn some valuable lessons from wild canids, and recent theorizing maintains that this may have been helpful to our actual

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Intelligence in Non-Humans

Edwin Wollert / Education Coordinator / Wolf Song of Alaska  Perhaps you have already noticed a discrepancy with the title of this latest article for the Wolf Song of Alaska website: Just what really is “intelligence,” anyway? This is hardly an idle or a trivial question. Even now, neuroscientists, surgeons, philosophers, and psychologists continue to debate

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“Wolf” in Different Languages

Note The spelling of some languages are “Romanized” for ease of pronunciation (including Chinese, Russian, Korean, and Japanese).  Also, almost all the nations from which these languages spring are believed to still have at least minimal wolf populations.  Abenaki môlsem pl môlsemok Ahtna tikaani Albanian ujk / vjuk Algonquin mahigan Apache ba’cho, ba’uchaahi, ma’cho Arabic

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