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Can wolves be tamed?
Wolves can be tamed and domesticated. Dogs today are descendants of wolves.

For wolves, both kinds of "taming" have happened. In history, it took thousands of years for humans to domesticate a group of wolves into dogs, but today, it is enough for humans to tame a few wolves to make movies. Of course, the two are not contradictory.

Modern dogs all come from a domestication effort (dogs may have been domesticated many times, but other domestication results have not survived to this day). This event may have happened some time before1-20,000 years ago, even before the birth of agriculture. Strictly speaking, dogs are not domesticated by modern gray wolves. It should be said that the ancestors of dogs and gray wolves are the same, which is very similar to today's gray wolves. In this paper, they are all called "wolves".

How did people take the first step to domesticate wolves? Primitive humans should not deliberately catch wolves for training, but some researchers suspect that primitive wolves may approach humans on their own initiative to pick up food scraps left by humans, and those wolves who are not afraid of people may become more prosperous and gradually establish early cooperative relations with people. This makes sense in theory, but it is difficult to verify.

As a result of domestication, wolves have become smaller in size, more varied in coat color, shorter in chin, smaller in teeth, some unique behaviors have disappeared, and their brain capacity has decreased-yes, dogs have lower brain capacity than wolves. But this does not mean that dogs are "stupid", just different types of intelligence. In terms of vigilance and some sensory acuity, most dogs may be inferior to wolves; But dogs are much better than wolves in understanding and receiving training to complete tasks.

As for taming and training, it is even more important-wolves are definitely not the most uncooperative animals. There are many precedents for using wolves as animal actors in Hollywood, and there are animal training companies specially prepared for the film industry. Of course, a domesticated wolf (even a wolf-dog hybrid with a high proportion of wolf blood) should never be regarded as a pet-it is good for people and itself.

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The living environment of wolves is not optimistic. Because of people's deep-rooted prejudice against wolves, wolves have been having a hard time, hiding in Tibet and still being hunted. In China, there were wild wolves in every province before 1940. By 2 1 century, wolves were not found in other areas except a few provinces and regions in northeast, northwest and north China. Experts estimate that there are only a few thousand wolves in China at present. At this rate, we can only see wolves in the zoo. Wolves are highly gregarious species.

At the same time, wolves also have a very strict hierarchy. The number of wolves in a group is about 7, which is the so-called seven wolves, and some wolves reach more than 30. Usually, the family wolf is led by a dominant pair, while the brothers and sisters as a group are led by the strongest wolf. Wolves have territory, usually their range of activities. If the number of individuals in the group increases, the territory will shrink.

The range between wolves does not overlap, and they will announce the range to other groups by howling. When young wolves grow up, they will stay in the group to take care of their brothers and sisters, or they may inherit the dominant position in the group, while others will migrate (mostly male wolves). Wolves are mainly family members, and the number of members ranges from 2 to 37. Because of its extremely strict hierarchy and territory, it is impossible for wolves to cooperate with other wolves, and there will be no wolves composed of several wolves in the novel.

Generally, wild wolves can live for 12- 16 years, and some artificially raised wolves can live for about 20 years. Running speed is extremely fast, about 55 kilometers at most. Wolves also have good endurance. They have the ability to run 20 kilometers at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. With a highly developed IQ, people can communicate through smell, crying and body movements. Wolf is a carnivore and a key link in the biological chain. However, although wolves mainly eat meat, sometimes wolves also eat some small berries to satisfy their appetite.

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Wolf (Mammal)-Baidu Encyclopedia