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The Dog Wolf Link
Several of the wolf-like social behaviors of a dog are not things that endear them to us, and several have lost their social purpose to the dog. They are additions that God hasn't managed to shake yet. Like the humans, they range from purely useless to downright weird.
The complicated eliminatory patterns of dogs are a source of bewilderment and sorrow to many dog owners, but if it is any comfort, they don't make much sense for the dog, either. In wolves, the alpha male and the alpha female usually urinate with a raised leg; all other members of the pack normally squat. The raised-leg urinations include depositing relatively small amounts of urine in prominent places and on noticeable objects like flower beds. This almost has nothing to do with the needs of elimination and everything to do with territorial markers.
Several humans believe the often repeated tale that wolves only mark the perimeter of their territory in this way, as a "keep-out" signal. Studies in Minnesota discovered that wolves urine-mark throughout their territory. They also do this with their feces (scats) which are often deposited on prominent spots, too, such as trees, stumps, garbage cans, and even empty boxes on the street.
Wolf scats are also often found at trail junctions, usually in the immediate vicinity of rendezvous sites where growing wolf pups are left while older wolves go off to hunt for food. Their scent glands on either side of the anus serves to add an individually distinctive odor to scats, underlining their function as scent markers. The grazing of the ground that usually follows elimination by socially domineering wolves, and which some but not all dogs show, appears to be aimed at underlining the scent mark with a visual mark, or to reinforce it more straight with odor from glands in the paws. (Wolves are cautious while grazing up dirt or leaves throughout this action not to aim the dirt directly at the site of their eliminations.)
Dogs do not have intuition to keep such a large area clean; the opposite they have a significant instinct to thoroughly mark their surrounding area with both urine and feces. Wolves usually do this so that pack members can know when ever they are in their home territory. The main stimulus for raised-leg urination in wolves is not, the scent of a strange wolf's urine, but instead the existence of the wolf's own mark: there is a firm instinct to mark and remark sites along regularly traveled routes within the wolf's own location. It may be an almost routine response to the odor of urine. Laboratory studies have discovered that when the nasal lining of dogs is stimulated electrically, it sets off an immediate calmness of the urinary sphincter muscles.
Myth or Reality
There are many popular myths about dog / wolf connections, especially in science fiction books, television shows and movies. Here are some to take a look at just for fun:
1) Dogs, bitten by wolves, changes into wolves during a full moon.
2) These creatures in number 1 cannot be killed unless a silver bullet is used.
3) If they bite a human, a human will change into a werewolf.
4) All of the above must howl at full moons, and stalk prey...the next werewolve to be brought into the fold!
OOOOHHHHHHHHHahhhhhhhhhh!! Wow, is it Halloween time yet?
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About leadership roles of a wolf pack?
Why is it only the alpha male and alpha female are allowed to mate and not the other wolves in a pack? And only the pups of the dominant male and female can take over that leadership role when one of the parents die? I love wolves so much so I'm trying to learn as much as I can about them but this part is a bit confusing to me so please explain as much as you know. Thank you and please no rude answers.
Within each pack is an elaborate hierarchy. It may consist of a single breeding pair, the Alpha male and female, a lower group consisting of non-breeding adults, each with its own ranking, a group of outcasts, and a group of immature wolves on their way up. Some of the younger wolves of the pack may leave to find vacant territory and a mate.
Individual wolves in a pack play different roles in relation to the others in the group. The parent wolves are the leaders of the pack - the alpha male and alpha female. (Alpha is the first letter in the Greek alphabet.)
The alpha male and female are the oldest members of the pack and the ones with the most experience in hunting, defending territory, and other important activities.
The other pack members respect their positions and follow their leadership in almost all things, The alpha wolves are usually the ones to make decisions for the pack when the group should go out to hunt or move from one place to another.
The other Pack members all have positions in the hierarchy inferior to those of the alpha male and female. The young adult wolves, who are the grown-up offspring of the alpha pair, have their own special roles under the leadership or their parents. Some of them me able to "boss around," or dominate, their sisters and brothers because they have established themselves as superior in some way. This superiority might be physical-larger size or greater strength - but it can be based on personality Dominant wolves in the pack usually have more aggressive and forceful personalities than their relatives of the same age.
The juveniles and pups-wolves under two years old do not occupy permanent positions within the pack hierarchy. They all take orders from their parents and older brothers and sisters, but their relationships with each other change frequently. During their play and other activities, they are constantly testing one mother to find out who will eventually be "top wolf" in their age group.
Relationships among creatures that live close together in groups are often very complicated, like members of a wolf pack. Studies of captive wolves and wolf packs in the wild have shown that many complex rules of behavior seem to govern the way that the animals relate us each other, the methods that wolves use to communicate with fellow pack members are also quite elaborate - see Wolf Communication
Wolf Pack football open with three home games
RENO - The 2010 Nevada football season will begin with three straight games at Mackay Stadium opening with Eastern Washington, the schools announced today. Eastern Washington, of the Big Sky Conference, will come to Mackay Stadium on Thursday, Sept. 2 to face the Wolf Pack in the season opener for both teams. Nevada hosts Colorado State on Sept. 11 and the Cal Bears will come to Reno for the ...
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