Why is the wolf the most humane predator on the planet?
Eighteen years of wolf-on-human attack statistics are mind-boggling—the real numbers are completely different from what we've been told since childhood, and how they're depicted in fairy tales, movies, and campfire horror stories...
And in the blood of pack leaders, Yellowstone scientists discovered something that makes the very word "alpha" sound completely different, and one she-wolf traveled more than ten thousand kilometers for a single encounter...
This film is a documentary analysis of everything you've heard about wolves since childhood, and you'll have to re-watch almost all of it. The wolf family, lifelong loyalty, monogamy in wild animals, the myth of the alpha male, research by biologist David Mech, observations in Yellowstone National Park, long migrations of young wolves, dispersal, a she-wolf's journey from Norway to Finland, GPS collars, dens, the birth of wolf pups, alloparenting, raising puppies as a pack, grief in animals, how wolves say goodbye to the dead. Wolf hunting, bite force, speed, endurance, moose femur, hunting strategy, why wolves choose the weak, risking their prey. The voice of the wolf and the mystery of howling: do wolves really howl at the moon, how do they communicate over a distance of sixteen kilometers, the individual timbre of each animal, the "deception of numbers." A sensational discovery by Yellowstone scientists: Toxoplasma gondii and wolf behavior, a parasite that makes an animal a leader, and who actually becomes the alpha male of the pack. Statistics on wolf attacks on humans over the past eighteen years, rabies, the real danger of wild animals, comparisons with dogs and moose. Wildlife in Russia and around the world, a documentary about predators, the gray wolf, the common wolf, ethology, biology, zoology, popular science about animals, wild animals up close, nature without embellishment. The "Wild Life" channel – documentaries about those who live alongside us but still remain wild.
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• How Wolves Saved Yellowstone , Everything Science, CC BY
• Minute Out In It: The Chase , Everything Science, CC BY
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