Topic 27 of 58: Wild Canines
Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (20:22) |
Wolf (wolf)
was going to name the topic wolves, but decided to include all of the wild dogs out there!
28 responses total.
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Response 1 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (20:24) * 1 lines
this topic is meant to include all wild canines including wolves, coyotes, hyenas, feral domestic dogs, dingos, etc. i am a big time wolf lover, as if you couldn't tell! i have several links of good information on the wolf.
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Response 2 of 28: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (21:34) * 1 lines
Your very own topic not in Screwed or Babes! Imagine that?! Of course, you are a four-wolf fold, are you not, and you have your very own Alpha Wolf? Could we see a picture of him?!
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Response 3 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (18:28) * 5 lines
al intra's wolf site:
Wolves
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Response 4 of 28: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (20:29) * 1 lines
Nice Wolfies, but no Midnight Wolf and no Alpha Wolf (or are you the ones in those neat paintings where they are part of the background?!)
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Response 5 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (20:55) * 1 lines
you got it! *grin* am really too shy to get my pic made and to have it plastered all over the internet....
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Response 6 of 28: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (21:06) * 4 lines
There's a pack of wild dogs howling some nights in the woods by my Cedar
Creek house. They really get going.
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Response 7 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (21:09) * 1 lines
feral dogs...not that uncommon though less heard of in cities.
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Response 8 of 28: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (21:31) * 1 lines
When I visited Southern California last year for 4 months, the room we slept in looked out on undeveloped parkland (yes, there still is some!) and each night the coyotes would sing. The first few times they were close and had made a kill so they were especially exhuberant. Man...I sat up in bed with the sheet tucked between my chin and knees and stared boggle-eyed into the inky darkness. It was a blood-chilling sound that took me about the 4 months to appreciate without shaking!
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Response 9 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Oct 4, 1999 (17:00) * 1 lines
haha! at ft riley, kansas, a few of the houses in the housing area had back yards that attached to some undeveloped land (for hunting). a few of the families that lived there left raw chicken for the coyotes. we saw them all the time running around in the field.
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Response 10 of 28: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Oct 4, 1999 (17:21) * 1 lines
They make the most amazing yipping noises when they have a kill - just like little humans when they are excited! I think they are neat - but they always look so forlorn in the daytime. I guess nighttime is REALLY their time to Howl!
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Response 11 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Oct 4, 1999 (19:14) * 3 lines
i always felt bad for the coyotes. they seemed like underdogs to me. (nevermind my pun). and then i learned that wolves were as well. didn't really know about the persecution they endure until i started reading and researching. doesn't help that fairytales use wolves as the bad guys.
i don't know if hyenas are in the canine family but they don't really seem like cats, although they could be. i saw an interesting documentary about them on discovery (my fave channel). they laugh out of nervousness! i'll do some more checking on them and give you a few more links for my fave wolf sites!
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Response 12 of 28: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Oct 4, 1999 (19:19) * 1 lines
Indeed, Hyenas are Canines...they are very pack oriented and alpha status for male and female leaders. I agree that for the most part, wolves have had lousy PR.
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Response 13 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Oct 4, 1999 (19:19) * 3 lines
got an answer on the hyena. according to the following url, hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs and really belong in their own family. it also said that they're closest to meercats and such. here's the link:
http://www.csulb.edu/~persepha/hyena.html
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Response 14 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Oct 4, 1999 (19:21) * 1 lines
marcia, you slipped me *hugs*
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Response 15 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Oct 4, 1999 (19:33) * 3 lines
k, here's a wolf website i visit a lot!
http://www.wolves-on-web.com/
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Response 16 of 28: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Oct 4, 1999 (20:04) * 1 lines
Not only did I slip you - I had the incorrect answer - they must have reclassified hyenas. I was sure...but I love meercats. They are adorable to the extreme! *hugs* returning...*smile*
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Response 17 of 28: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Feb 8, 2000 (20:17) * 31 lines
This will not endanger you, will it Wolfie???
Hunting for Wolf-Dog Hybrids
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian hunters set out on Monday to kill four wolf-dog
hybrids in an unprecedented step to protect Scandinavia's endangered
pure-bred wolves.
``We'll shoot to kill,'' Svein Nic Norberg, one of eight people involved in the
hunt, told Reuters via mobile phone from a forest in southeast Norway. ``We
have an extremely difficult task ahead of us. It could take weeks or even
months.''
Norwegian authorities, who have spent recent years trying to reintroduce
wolves after they died out in Norway in the 1940s, ordered the hunt after
genetic testing of a cub killed by a car showed it was a mixture of wolf and
dog.
Scientists fear that four other cubs from the same litter, born in May 1999,
could grow up to breed and wreck the gene pool of Norwegian wolves. The
hunt has support from environmentalists who see it as a way to protect a
stock of about 20 pure wolves.
Norberg, a spokesman for the Directorate for Nature Management, said his
team had located three of the hybrids in Oestfold county, in woods near the
Swedish border, together with their pure-bred wolf mother and a new pure wolf
mate.
``What is complicating the hunt is that we have to be extremely careful not to
hurt the adult animals they are fully protected,'' Norberg said. A lack of snow
in the area made it difficult to monitor the tracks.
``They move around a lot. They can easily go 200 kilometers (125 miles) in 24
hours,'' he said.
The last of the four hybrid cubs was wandering around alone in the north of
the county, apparently lost, Norberg said. The dog father of the hybrids has
not been identified.
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Response 18 of 28: Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Feb 9, 2000 (18:10) * 1 lines
not this wolfie. it hurts my feelings but i understand why they're doing it.
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Response 19 of 28: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Feb 9, 2000 (18:20) * 1 lines
Yeah, I know...I worried and worried about posting that article, but decided pure wolfies are important to save...so I posted it!
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Response 20 of 28: LadyArk (MarciaH) * Mon, May 22, 2000 (15:17) * 24 lines
Werewolf Lore
Do werewolves lurk among us?
Thanks to movies and childhood stories, just about everyone
knows what a werewolf is. But did you know that the word
"werewolf" is Old English for "man-wolf"?
Just in case you don't quite remember, a werewolf is
defined as a man who can transform himself into a werewolf.
In the Middle Ages, European peasants believed that these
man-wolves would go out hunting for food (children were
reputedly the morsel of choice for these predators) during
the full moon. Bandits were the only ones to have actually
preyed on the fears of peasants - they clothed themselves
in wolf skins to inspire fear.
Werewolf lore is evident in many parts of the world - and
throughout the ages. From ancient Greece to (generally
isolated regions of the world) today, folklore still exists
about these man-wolves.
More tomorrow!
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Response 21 of 28: LadyArk (MarciaH) * Tue, May 23, 2000 (15:17) * 17 lines
Do Werewolves Lurk Among Us?
According to psychologists, people who believe that they
transform into werewolves have a mental disorder called
lycanthropy. In this disorder, one thinks he or she can
transform into a wolf or other animal, depending on the
region of the world in which he or she lives. In general,
people who suffer from this disorder believe that they
transform into the most powerful and feared animal that
lives in their part of the world.
But the perceived 'ability' to transform one's self into an
animal has great spiritual implications in many religions.
Is this simply just a mental disorder - or are there times
when chosen people experience a transformation into an
animal form?
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Response 22 of 28: Cheryl (CherylB) * Sat, Jun 3, 2000 (12:02) * 1 lines
Aren't hyenas related to mongeese as well as meercats? Okay, but jackals are dogs, aren't they?
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Response 23 of 28: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jun 3, 2000 (13:47) * 1 lines
Gotta look up the hyena stuff and it is in another room...but, I shall get back to you!
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Response 24 of 28: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Jun 4, 2000 (13:25) * 1 lines
wait, we posted something about hyenas here. where was it?
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Response 25 of 28: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Jun 4, 2000 (13:27) * 8 lines
from post 13, this topic:
wolf:
got an answer on the hyena. according to the following url, hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs and really belong in their own family. it also said that they're closest to meercats and such. here's the link:
http://www.csulb.edu/~persepha/hyena.html
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Response 26 of 28: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Jun 4, 2000 (18:16) * 1 lines
*whew* Thanks Wolfie!
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Response 27 of 28: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Feb 20, 2002 (19:38) * 5 lines
revisiting this topic, i realize i mistakedly left out an answer about jackals! so, here is a link that shows that jackals are canines but can behave like cats:
http://www.rzu2u.com/bbjackal.htm
in geo conference, we had a discussion concerning wolfpacks and their make up. since we know that alpha males and females mate for life, we were discussing the function of the lessor males and females in the pack. we do know that they help raise alpha pups and that males leave the pack to form their own. females join other packs and/or stay with their familial pack to help raise future siblings. i will look up some more info to further clarify the make up of wolf packs.
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Response 28 of 28: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Feb 20, 2002 (19:42) * 1 lines
i don't know enough about wolf hybrids to comment about that. but i will do some checking on that as well.
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