As we study the dots on the map representing the many movements of Brutus and his pack, we can imagine the pack members as they trek across the snow. The photos (see earlier blogs) taken by folks at the weather station, help, as do our memories of the behavior we observed during summer. In that respect, we suggest viewing our recent posting on YouTube of Brutus dominating one of the subordinate members of his pack last summer, quite possibly one of his sons. This incident was the longest example of dominance behavior that either of us had ever seen. We suspect it was a prelude to forcing a maturing offspring to leave the pack (disperse) and find his own territory, mate, and start his own pack.
Dave
Interesting. Can wolves disperse at any time or is there a set time/more likely time they'd leave the pack?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous,
ReplyDeleteWolves can and do disperse during any season. In some areas they tend more
to disperse in autumn; in others in spring, and no one knows why the
differences.
Dave
wow this is really cool. im going to use this for a current events article for my tenth grade biology class
ReplyDeleteHi there,
ReplyDeleteDo you have a web page with Google Maps or a Google Earth showing pictures and videos in their geographic position?
Bye,
RCantor
there is one thing which worried me in the video -- wolves seem to act taking as element of their interaction the distance between them and the scientists ... especialy the short howling (at 7.16) from the younger wolf seems more "at the attention for the scientists"; positive habituation between scientists and wolves, perhaps ?. the second howling (8.04) seems to be "for all". what do you think about ?
ReplyDeleteI'm able to read english, a little bit to write it, unfortunately abour speaking I'm bad so I'm unable to understant the commentary - does it exist in text ?
Rcantor,
ReplyDeleteThe picture and video were all taken near the Eureka weather station that
shows on some of the earlier posts.
Dave