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Wolf Facts
Just felt like typing down some interesting wolf facts that can be applied to werewolves. Add more if ya know any!
Didja know a wolf howl doesnt echo?
Wolves can have a crushing pressure of about 1,500 lbs/in2 while a german sheperd has 750 lbs/in2
Didja know a wolf howl doesnt echo?
Wolves can have a crushing pressure of about 1,500 lbs/in2 while a german sheperd has 750 lbs/in2
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Re: Wolf Facts
With the jaws of course.Silverclaw wrote:
Wolves can have a crushing pressure of about 1,500 lbs/in2 while a german sheperd has 750 lbs/in2
Alll the better to eat s with
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Re: Wolf Facts
You mean all the better to open beer cans with!!Aki wrote:With the jaws of course.Silverclaw wrote:
Wolves can have a crushing pressure of about 1,500 lbs/in2 while a german sheperd has 750 lbs/in2
Alll the better to eat s with
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The urban legends are true...
The wolf howl "not echoing" is probably by the same flawed logic as the duck quack not echoing. (Any resemblance to a choice of projectile weapon around here is completely coincidental.)
In the TV show Mythbusters, the sound of ducks quacking was recorded and analyzed in an open field and again in an echo chamber, and compared. The reverberations matched the occilations of the source sound, creating the illusion of not echoing, but the sound waves themselves did still echo like everything else.
The sound of a wolf howling sounds exactly like its own echo, so I suspect the same principles created a similar myth.
Now, how about the guy who got lycanthropy from a mosquito bite, or from a dentist who was a werewolf?
In the TV show Mythbusters, the sound of ducks quacking was recorded and analyzed in an open field and again in an echo chamber, and compared. The reverberations matched the occilations of the source sound, creating the illusion of not echoing, but the sound waves themselves did still echo like everything else.
The sound of a wolf howling sounds exactly like its own echo, so I suspect the same principles created a similar myth.
Now, how about the guy who got lycanthropy from a mosquito bite, or from a dentist who was a werewolf?
Taking a Gestalt approach, since it's the "in" thing...
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Re: The urban legends are true...
Wouldn't a mosquito be a weremosquito if it sucked blood from a werewolf?Scott Gardener wrote: Now, how about the guy who got lycanthropy from a mosquito bite, or from a dentist who was a werewolf?
heh, that'll fry your brain on an answer.
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no doubt about that. I'd say if you passed gass through your.....mass, you'd be in a lot of big trouble
So, wolf facts..hmm....let me see
wolves don't have a mating season, they did it any time and even have cubs during the winter
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Wolves can have female alfas, which are known to be more aggressive than the males.....they even kill their mates if they don't like them...Yikes!
The only difference in wolves and dogs is that the wolves have a higher evolved brain. More adreniline is pumped through them and so they are able to stand more pain and withstand the harsh envirnments that they live in.
And last two that I know, wolves don't explode. I'm sorry. They just don't. .....But they do eat duckies!
So, wolf facts..hmm....let me see
wolves don't have a mating season, they did it any time and even have cubs during the winter
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Wolves can have female alfas, which are known to be more aggressive than the males.....they even kill their mates if they don't like them...Yikes!
The only difference in wolves and dogs is that the wolves have a higher evolved brain. More adreniline is pumped through them and so they are able to stand more pain and withstand the harsh envirnments that they live in.
And last two that I know, wolves don't explode. I'm sorry. They just don't. .....But they do eat duckies!
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Actually, wolves don't have a more highly evolved brain, it's that humans have provided dogs an environment that is nowhere near as demanding as the environments wolves live in. Plus, over the course of the 12 to 15 thousand years of domesticating the dog, we humans have tended to select "puppy-like" traits, both physical and psychological. The main trait being that, adult wolves tend to be very suspicious of new-comers, wolf, or human,, and rarely, if ever, accept new-comers, while dogs can be conditioned to accept new-comers, animal or human.JonathanBaine wrote: The only difference in wolves and dogs is that the wolves have a higher evolved brain.
On the other hand, sure, wolves are not the dunces of the Animal World, but, good luck trying to teach a wolf to let you put a funny hat on him and make him walk around on his hindlegs to the sound of your clapping.
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I remember that story...WolvenOne wrote:Actually there's a story entitled "Never Moon a Werewolf," but the werewolves in it don't actually change when people moon-them or anything. Infact if I remember the story right they're some of the more civilized Werewolves I've seen in movies/books.
To sum it up...
Never bite the hand that feeds you, and never hunt the donor of your hair.
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Actually any of the wolves can mate, just its' dicouraged if the pack is large enough or if there is a shorttage of food. etc.Apokryltaros wrote:Only the alpha pair mate, usually for life, though sometimes they select other packmembers as mates.IblisPendragon wrote:don't wolves choose on mate for life?
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Alot of times when the alpha wolves don't mate with eachother it's because they're siblings or are related somehow.
Wolves will also mate with dogs and coyotes. Speculation is that red wolves are a mix between gray wolf and coyote, since they look more like grays in the northern part of their range and coyotes in the south.
Wolves will also mate with dogs and coyotes. Speculation is that red wolves are a mix between gray wolf and coyote, since they look more like grays in the northern part of their range and coyotes in the south.
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I thought that the red wolves (those alive today, at least) have a lot of coyote and or domestic dog in them.Reilune wrote:Alot of times when the alpha wolves don't mate with eachother it's because they're siblings or are related somehow.
Wolves will also mate with dogs and coyotes. Speculation is that red wolves are a mix between gray wolf and coyote, since they look more like grays in the northern part of their range and coyotes in the south.
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