Full title: Finnish wildlife photographer Lassi Rautianen documented the surprising friendship between a male brown bear and a female grey wolf. The pair was seen hunting together, walking together and sharing with each other.
Agent Smith is wrong, I agree. But it is not capitalism or profit incentive that is the cause. He is wrong, because we can grow and evolve to be better. Capitalism is a means to an end, the end has been the same long before capitalism or Stalin-marxism. A certain subset of people will always abuse power, money does not matter. If the average people can band together and put aside differences, we can grow beyond the old paradigm and cast aside the power corrupted people.
I’m sure some furries are having a field day with this one.
Observed a coyote and bobcat regularly hunting together in a grassland. Usual technique was start on opposite ends, one would traverse and drive prey towards the other. Switched roles who drove prey and who ambushed. Prey was shared.
That’s cool as hell
Her tail is down like she’s scared in all the photos. Is this a mutual relationship?
Tail down in a dog doesn’t only mean scared, and I don’t think you can assume dog behaviours of a wolf.
Tail down in dogs can mean loads of things. Tail down in wolves can mean everything from hunting, stalking, chilling, walking, checking if I am home and gonna feed them.
Can confirm, I just checked with Maia now .
Submission?
What do you mean submission? I live on an agricultural holding, and Maia is a wolf that also lives on said agricultural holding. Am I misunderstanding the question?
Uh, yeah. I am asking if for wolves in general it can be a sign of submission. As in the post.
Oh, ok, I understand. No. It’s not a sign of submission. Tail down is usually just when they have nothing to say (relaxed), or when they are trying not to be seen (hunting, or hiding).
Generally though, it doesn’t mean anything without context.
Second last pic looks like a greeting (non threatening pose), last pic is scared. They clearly spotted the photographer. Female wolves are especially skittish around humans.
Now, people often use the phrase “name a more dynamic duo”, but I would argue, this time…
Dynamic, iconic and fantastic!
I think we all want a movie but I want it to be a nature doc not a shitty Hollywood story.
calling David Attenborough, Sir David Attenborough, your presence is requested
It could be a really good silent movie. Like the only time you hear speech is when humans are arround and otherwise its just nature sounds and whatever sounds the wolf and bear make
There is a wolf and a bear inside of all of us
Ffs animals can get along interspecies, why can’t we get along?
"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.” ― Agent Smith
Agent Smith is wrong about humans. Capitalism does that not humans. For profit incentives and motivation does that. Not people.
except that’s not at all true.
just look at invasive species that are only kept in check by human intervention.
Those are almost all caused by humans. They will reach equilibrium eventually, but we took them from an environment where that equilibrium had already been reached and put them somewhere else. Almost certainly they’ll eventually have predators. It’s just a question of how much damage they cause before then, and how long that takes.
How many of those invasive species were introduced by human activity though
Most invasive species are there because of human activity to begin with.
"The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people.
We know the sap which courses through the trees as we know the blood that courses through our veins. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters. The bear, the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the dew in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and man all belong to the same family.
The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each glossy reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water’s murmur is the voice of my father’s father.
The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give the rivers the kindness that you would give any brother.
If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life that it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also received his last sigh. The wind also gives our children the spirit of life. So if we sell our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow flowers.
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
One thing we know: our God is also your God. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
Your destiny is a mystery to us. What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered? The wild horses tamed? What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted with talking wires? Where will the thicket be? Gone! Where will the eagle be? Gone! And what is to say goodbye to the swift pony and then hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival.
When the last red man has vanished with this wilderness, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be here? Will there be any of the spirit of my people left?
We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother’s heartbeat. So, if we sell you our land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it, as we have cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it. Preserve the land for all children, and love it, as God loves us.
As we are part of the land, you too are part of the land. This earth is precious to us. It is also precious to you.
One thing we know - there is only one God. No man, be he Red man or White man, can be apart. We ARE all brothers after all."
- Chief Seattle (maybe)
https://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/seattle.htm
Only to a specific subset of humans does your quote apply.
because you look funny.
Nice! Thanks.
Also: how humans were domesticated by dogs
That’s unfair. I can’t fight off both at the same time.
That’s the point
Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution
Mutual Aid in action in nature
what does the wolf do/think when the bear holes up for half a year?
