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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

Silverclaw wrote:
Wolves can have a crushing pressure of about 1,500 lbs/in2 while a german sheperd has 750 lbs/in2

With the jaws of course.

Alll the better to eat s with

Aki wrote:

Silverclaw wrote:
Wolves can have a crushing pressure of about 1,500 lbs/in2 while a german sheperd has 750 lbs/in2

With the jaws of course.

Alll the better to eat s with

You mean all the better to open beer cans with!!

Wouldn't that get beer all over the placE?

Of course, if you intend on licking up the mjess...

Aki wrote:Wouldn't that get beer all over the placE?

Of course, if you intend on licking up the mjess...

If you bite into just right, the beer would go into your mouth and you can swallow it in one gulp.

Meh, sounds like using the claws to open it would be easier. Less risk of soaking your fur in beer.

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?

Scott Gardener wrote: Now, how about the guy who got lycanthropy from a mosquito bite, or from a dentist who was a werewolf?

Wouldn't a mosquito be a weremosquito if it sucked blood from a werewolf?

heh, that'll fry your brain on an answer.

Dentist who was a werewolf.. Only if the dentist bit they guy.. The other way around would work better..


Now here is a question.. If you 'Moon' a werewolf.. what happens?

Marcwolf wrote:
Now here is a question.. If you 'Moon' a werewolf.. what happens?

If I did this to a werewolf--->


I'd get my butt kicked!!

biiten. you would then have two...>_> <_<

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!

JonathanBaine wrote: The only difference in wolves and dogs is that the wolves have a higher evolved brain.

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.
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.

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.

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.

I remember that story...
To sum it up...
Never bite the hand that feeds you, and never hunt the donor of your hair.

Yep that's the story all-right.

don't wolves choose on mate for life?

IblisPendragon wrote:don't wolves choose on mate for life?

Only the alpha pair mate, usually for life, though sometimes they select other packmembers as mates.

Apokryltaros wrote:

IblisPendragon wrote:don't wolves choose on mate for life?

Only the alpha pair mate, usually for life, though sometimes they select other packmembers as mates.

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.

IblisPendragon wrote:don't wolves choose on mate for life?

If one of the alpha pair dies, the remaning one will choose another mate.

yeah wolves mate for life. usually only the alpha pair will mate. But sometimes beta pairs will. If a mate dies the other may take on another mate. Or a younger wolf will take over and bring his or her own mate.

a bit romantic that..hehe

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.

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.

I thought that the red wolves (those alive today, at least) have a lot of coyote and or domestic dog in them.

Wolves don't bark near as much as domesic dogs do. Though wolves that have contact with domestic dogs do bark more.