{"id":142570,"date":"2020-10-25T12:48:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T12:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/?p=142570"},"modified":"2020-10-30T17:08:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T17:08:53","slug":"another-bogus-photo-caption-revealed-by-international-wolf-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/another-bogus-photo-caption-revealed-by-international-wolf-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Another bogus photo caption revealed by International Wolf Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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🙋‍♀️ #wolfdoguk #wolfdog #officialwolfdog<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>ALL IS REVEALED<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

No, this photo doesn\u2018t show one wolf protecting another\u2019s throat in a gesture of heroism<\/p>\n

Yet another misleading photo interpreting wolf behavior is circulating on the internet. In this instance, a female wolf is said to be protecting her male counterpart from an attack by shielding his throat. The caption reads: \u201cThe female wolf appears to hide under the male. She\u2019s actually covering his throat from their assailant, whilst pretending to be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot that is misleading about the caption. We\u2019d know. The image of the wolves in the photo is an image of ambassador wolves at the International Wolf Centre. And, to put it bluntly, all of the wolves in the image are males.<\/p>\n

Regarding the interpretation of the behavior: That, too, is inaccurate. The Center\u2019s Wolf Curator, Lori Schmidt, has observed wolf behavior up close for more than 30 years. She interprets the behavior seen in the photograph in a much different way.<\/p>\n

The arctic wolf on the left was named Shadow. He was the dominant male of the exhibit pack at the time this photograph was taken. The two wolves on the right are brothers \u2013 Denali and Aidan, who is pictured on the bottom.<\/p>\n

Shadow shows a lip curl to the subordinate males of the pack,\u201d Schmidt said. \u201cAidan is more timid and tucks his head lower in acceptance of the dominance than his brother Denali, who is more defiant and tries to stare down Shadow.\u00a0 It appears the more accepting behavior rather than defiant behavior may have an advantage in pack social dynamics and Aidan succeeded Shadow as the pack leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Center studies these natural behaviors in wolves and has even built an ethogram to categorize such behavior. (An ethogram is an inventory of animal behavior.) Hundreds of natural wolf behaviors have been inventoried at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

🙋‍♀️ #wolfdoguk #wolfdog #officialwolfdog ALL IS REVEALED No, this photo doesn\u2018t show one wolf protecting another\u2019s throat in a gesture of heroism Yet another misleading photo interpreting wolf behavior is circulating on the internet. In this instance, a female wolf is said to be protecting her male counterpart from an attack by shielding his throat. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18,14],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-142570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-news","category-wolf","category-wolfdoguk","tag-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167342,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142570\/revisions\/167342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}