I wish people would understand the wolf's point of view. They should understand nature's point of view and see how important a large predator is to an ecosystem.
It's great to see you've hinted at the complexities of wolf conservation. Giving such important figures a chance to express their opinion on mainstream media will hopefully encourage a more informed understanding of wolves. Campaigning for a species' protection is far more effective when you understand that animal to begin with.
Thank you so much for your comment. I have received some wonderful feedback and the most important is from those that now have a balanced perception of the wolf!
@@blakerobinson9928 I think you're missing the point of the video. She is presenting an argument for wolves playing a an important role in nature, when many people see the species as completely useless. Wolves do attack livestock, pets, and even people. When that happens, the animal responsible is often removed if deterrents and hazing don't have any effect. Predation is a very difficult political problem, and that isn't the topic of this video.
@@blakerobinson9928 Exactly. I challenge any of them to go out in to the wild and find out for themselves what wolves are like, rather than believe this Hollywood nonsense.
Amazing how you guys put something so amazing together in such demanding times of life.Really puts in to concept parts of nature people may not be aware of. Would love to see more content!😇
Amazing how you guys put something so amazing together in such demanding times of life. Really puts in to concept parts of nature people my not be aware of. Wold love to see more content! Wolf rland that from just back Young wold this Coullons and the that Coullins Woldlf.🐺🐺❤❤
I watched this video thru to end. Detail & very insightful. Wolves are beautiful creatures. Wolves conservation is needed NOT mgmt. Thank you for uploading this wonderful story of Wolves.
We have three times(1400-2500 depending on pups) as many wolves here in Idaho than what Fish and Wildlife said we needed to maintain a healthy population. As a result of that, they are eating their way through the other wildlife we have. Management is needed to maintain a healthy balance, for the good of cougar, bear, elk, moose, deer, etc. We will always have wolves here in N. Idaho.
Thank you for making this important documentary. It sheds light on so much darkness about wolves. Humans have much to learn. Ty and I look forward to more!
This was so lovely to watch I had to share. I myself got to experience the nature of these lovely animals as a child. My fathers friend saved one that was injured and let it live it’s life out on his property until old age. Such a loving animal.
It's sad when people already lose contact with animals.👿 My name is Olaf and I identify with the wolf and the buffalo very much, so I can deal with my problems on my own. Respect, for commitment and for what you are. 🙏
This got recommended to me and I'm so glad I watched it. Most informative documentary I've seen on wolves and I'll have to look into that Wildwood sanctuary. Still annoyed that my country(UK) wiped out all our wolves. If they ever get reintroduced, they better have protection.
That is sad. We live with wolves every day here in Idaho and they are like the other predators around here. Don't hate them or love them. Just another wild animal.
“Wolf in spirit, human in being. I see the world with two eyes.” We cant see very well with only one eye open. So why only look at the world through one of them? We all must open both eyes when we wake. Else we will be blind to our own shortcomings.
Love Wolves ,Loved to see them back in UK ...No to hunting .Us hikers will adjust .Learn to respect all nature. Trophy hunting what can i say .it must stop on all animals.
For show and tell in 3rd grade a classmate brought some old skool Walmart developed pics of a pack taking a whitetail down on a lake in the winter, to us as little hillbillyz it was just cool they got the pics to turn out....
Great film! This is my 4th times watching this documentary film. I learned something else everytime I whatch. We need to learn how to behave toward these wolves & protect this greaceful animals!
A captivating documentary! Yes, the immense hatred of wolves began with the church. Pre-Christian European cultures revered, respected as well as feared the wolf, but many of our cultures were crafted by the innumerable stories, tales and myths of the wolf, e.g. Norse culture contains many stories and important wolf deities; so, too, the Slavic cultures and Graeco-Roman cultures.
WOW! This doc hit every note with perfect pitch! My relationship with the wolf began when I was 11 years old growing up as a city kid in Wisconsin in '91. They were endangered and mysterious. I became interested in the politics of wolf conservation. I visited a sanctuary where I met 'Marcus', a white wolf, and had the opportunity to observe him and his pack. Unfortunately, they were behind metal fences. I did some fundraising and begged my mom to donate to the sanctuary. The sanctuary no longer exists, but these experiences inspired me. As an adult, I've made myself aware of politics, legalities, and the BLM (Bureau of Land Management), etc. Involvement is my obligation as a human on this planet! We are all obligated to be aware, engaged, and participate in our environment. We do not own this earth, but rather belong to it. Humans are so disconnected from nature and in turn from ourselves. I love that this doc highlights this awareness or lack thereof. It outlines all the complexities of the wolf in our ecosystem brilliantly. The wolf is balance. The wolf is necessary.
This story is close to my own. I grew up (mainly in the countryside, but somehwat in a mid size town) in the midwest in the 90s, and there haven't been wild wolves in our state in 100 years now, because of the extermination campaigns of the early 20th century. I can't recall anymore my first introduction to wolves, but I must have been very young, because I recall being obsessed from an early age. At one point I got into a heated argument with a cousin, and ended up terribly frustrated, because I could not understand why she didn't see the logic in my arguments, why she preferred fairy tales over facts I'd spent hours accumulating, with data to back it up, haha. I didn't understand what she needed was an emotional connection. I must have been maybe 8 or 9. Back then it was uncommon in our area to have a computer at home, and the library was just then buolding a computer lab, as I was old enough to learn to use one. Anyone who wanted to give a gift during the holidays knew I would adore anything wolf related, so long as it wasn't misinformation or a fairy tale, because ny chance I got to be near a computer I was on the website for the international wolf center, or reading about wolves in Yellowstone, printing out pictures and facts to go with them. One of my aunts once paid for a sponsorship (they called it an "adoption") of a wolf at the international wolf center, and I recieved a magazine and a folder with a picture and information about her. I believe her name was Mackenzie? I remember she was a black phase wolf. Anyway. It remains one of the coolest gifts I've ever recieved, because I knew from my research it went toward sorely needed efforts in public education and care for the wolves. And of course, I had a packet full of wolf stuff lol. That was cool for me regardless. I'm sorry to say I don't know what happened to that packet. A lot has happened in the 23 years since, and so it was lost to time. I did, however, discover there was a wolf education and conservation center in my state that I never knew existed, and it's been here my whole life! So now that I'm an adult, when I find the time, I make the long drive and volunteer, or attend one of their special events, and I try to see who I can get to go with me to see the wolves. Once they held a really special book signing event, and I got to meet Doug Smith, have him sign my copy of the collaborative book he edited about the Yellowstone wolf project, and I got to speak with him in person. The person who started a project that I'd learned so much about in my hours researching as a kid, one of the people likely responsible for the fact that wolves and their impact on ecosystems was even brought to my attention in the first place. That was such a huge thing for me. I'm an undergraduate studying physics, a returning adult student. And while I want to investigate the connection between gravity and the relevant forces at the smallest scales, I also still have this great passion for wolves and wildlife conservation I hope to use what I learn, I hope to make or contribute to projects that are making a difference, to advocate in public spaces, especially where the voices pf those concerned need to be heard, and to do some public outreach as much as possible. My dream would be to do both; perhaps do wildlife conservation efforts as my main occupation, and study some interesting physics topics at home. I'm always so saddened by how little true wilderness exists now, how terribly humans have encroached upon and and damaged it, in some places perhaps irreversibly, and how that has impacted other life. It's horrific, some of the things we do to other life. I hope I live to see a day where we can start truly feeling optimistic for the recovery of the planet and our relationship to nature.
Well done. 🐺❤️you did right by these majestic, intelligent, beautiful animals. I also highly recommend Jim & Jamie’s documentary - their experience with the wolves. Fascinating.
I’ve met 3 wolves in my life. Each taught me something different. We are all different, we must respect each other's space, and be aware of the world around you. Is a shame that it’s taken over a decade for me to see these lessons (i was still a kid for all three moments).
You a struggle until you live in a forest void of all small wildlife. Here, coyotes are rampant and they have killed all squirrels, groundhogs, skunks, opossums, even chipmunks. There is nothing left but a few deer and even their young disappeared this year.
Get a group of dogs to herd and live around the cattle, Mastiffs, shepherds and malamutes these type of dogs are easy to train and can easily in a group keep wolves just from barking away it's been done with cattle where there up against big cats and bears and the dogs protect.
Using certain dogs has been proven to work (amongst other methods). There's so many nonlethal tools.... no need to kill wolves! Thanks for your comment :)
@@AnimalEducate I love wolves it's a shame to see most humans want to solve problems by just killing the problem e.g. wolves, big cats and sea animals like sharks, they don't educate themselves to actually see that keeping them alive helps out the planet more than not having them at all and this is why I love your channel so thank you
I live in Utah and I grew up in a rural area but now live in the city. It’s been interesting to see the different perspectives people have on wolves, especially since I work in the animal industry specifically with dogs. I’ll never forget when I was working at a Petco in Park City someone brought in a domesticated wolf. His name was Sampson and he had a gorgeous red coat. I’ve always been fascinated with wolves and dogs and immediately knew he was a wolf. I asked if he was a full blooded wolf and they said he was but to keep it quiet so they wouldn’t get in trouble. Sampson could smell all the dogs on me and immediately started licking my hands and nuzzling into me. He was so sweet and loving, despite being massive and so wild looking. I’m 5’3” and his back was to my rib cage. I don’t think wolves should be pets but it cemented in my mind what I’d known for years; wolves can be peaceful creatures. In rural parts of Utah many people fear wolves. They despise coyotes and foxes for taking small farm animals and so they see wolves as a bigger threat to their livestock. I appreciate that in this documentary you pointed out the actual numbers of the wolf killed livestock ratio. It isn’t much at the end of the day. What I find unfortunate is the amount of deer we hit in Utah and how they often just rot away on our roads. If there could be a wolf pack in an enclosed area and a team that picks up fresh road kill and takes it to the wolves I think it could be beneficial to everyone. Full wolves won’t look for easy pickings with livestock and an animal that tragically lost its life can give life to others. But I also appreciate that in this documentary you touched on the religious and fairy tale backgrounds of the wolves. I feel like that plays a big part in people’s fears today especially in more rural areas that are predominantly more religious. I think both wolves and snakes get a bad reputation because of the Bible’s frequent use of metaphors that use their imagery. It’s unfortunate that so many Christians don’t appreciate the earth even though they preach that their god created the earth. I was always confused by this and learning about god creating the earth, yet we weren’t taught to appreciate the earth. I still laugh about this one time I asked why god created dinosaurs and my parents said “so they could provide fossil fuels for our cars” as if cars were naturally part of the earth too? It made no sense at all. I’m no longer a Christian but since I grew up as one I know how they think and it’s truly so archaic. Science and facts don’t matter to the majority of them, all they care about is their religion. It’s not even much about the Bible anymore since most of them don’t truly study it. It’s sad that they’ve picked and chosen what they want to use and unfortunately in most cases it’s the line “multiply and replenish the earth” that they all focus on. They think that only means to have babies and make sure those babies have grand babies and then great grand babies and so on and so forth when really shouldn’t replenishing the earth also mean to protect it and make it better for all of gods creations? Multiply the amount of animals and plants that inhabit the earth as well? Not just humans.... but most of Christianity is run by capitalism so it’s no surprise they just want more human bodies to produce more labor for profit and giving money to more churches. It’s all a very toxic cycle that is harming everyone including ourselves.
I go on The NY Wolf Conservation Center webcams and they say that they get deer killed on the road. I sometimes passed a dead deer on the vroad where I live in PA and now I think if I'd come across one I wonder who I could call and say can you take this to The Wolf Sanctuary of PA?
Protect wolves 🐺 , I love wolves ,, stop 🛑 killing these beautiful creatures,, leave them alone ,, they are a very loyal creatures .. you need to understand and study their behaviour, before killing them just because they need to feed ,, like every creature on this planet,,
I was trying to find a documentary of a wolf family and was planning to click off this video, but. I ended up watching the whole thing instead. Good documentary!
Thank you for making this. Truly an all star cast. I really like how you covered all the pertinent issues particularly Disconnection, Unmasked and Solutions. I don't know where the PR was for this. I found it by accident on the back pages of a wolf advocacy website. How did everyone else hear about it?
I was so impressed about this video. I love wolves for many years. My house is full of pictures of these mystical, majestic animal. Humanity is so wrong about wolves nature ecology need these beautiful animals. Yellowstone park has change so much since the introduction of wolves I am a regular visitor of the park since the introduction of wolves the park shows the big change of the ecology there is more vegetation, trees 🌳 has develop so much better and healthy so are flowers. The population of deer and elk have been reduce to a better number. Thank you so much.
Not sure about the Park but here in North Idaho, wolves have really hit our elk, moose, deer numbers hard. I spend 60-days a year in the backcountry, especially in the winter and find the remains of what they have eaten.
This was an amazing documentary to watch. I also wasn't expecting Cheyenne, Tejas and Nataa to appear in memory. I volunteer at Dartmoor and was lucky to meet them
People will just kill them. UK is not ready to be inclusive. Look at what we do to foxes and badgers. Better never to have been born than born into persecution.
It is quite appalling and sad to think how badly misinterpreted the wolf has become. How it’s numbers have diminished over the years and how they are still being affected. In my culture, the wolf stands for humility and humility is to know that you are a sacred part of creation. Live life selflessly and not selfishly. Respect your place and carry your pride with your people and praise the accomplishments of all. Do not become arrogant and self-important. I’ve grown up around the Siberian Husky, it’s from them that I had this profound love and respect for the wolf since very young. I hope to one day be an active part of their conversation. It is my dream to work with them. Thank you for this wonderful documentary.
Ty for posting this video forwarded it to the public and hope it opens peoples minds to how important it is to exust with nature including the creatures of the world NAMASTE. 👍✌✊🙏💗
I love wolves so much. I couldn't believe Trump took them off the protection list. Upset me so much. Then the slaughter happened. I cried. Just unbelievable.
I've never thought about why anyone would hate wolves. Probably because hating wolves is alien to me. I've always been fascinated by them. Admittedly I'm a massive dog lover & see Wolves as wild dogs. As with all wild animals they should be treated as wild animals. Not as some evil human killer, in reality our paths shouldn't really cross.
Fantastic story, all that is said about the wolves, they are here to do a job and they are very close to humans, they are our ancestors as well as the birds and the bees and trees. And i suuport the legislation to save the wolves and every other animals endangered or not. They are the wilderness. Keep it up Canada you are brilliant to keep the wolves. I wish we had them in our forests in Aotearoa New Zealand From us here in Aotearoa NZ, we will support you all to look after all wild life animals around the world. Kia ora, Kiorana.
Úlfheðnar had a symbiotic relationship with the wolf, just like the Native Americans did. They both respected them tremendously. Infact, the "Vikings", the Úlfheðnar, respected the wolf so much they wouldn't kill them.
@@AnimalEducate welcome. I should say they didn't kill them, & were respectful of them after one became a Úlfheðnar. Because to become one, you have to kill a wolf with your bare hands. Then they wore the pelt as a trophy, also because they believed it gave them powers. Just like the Berserkers with the bears.
Thanks for commenting! I’m studying an MSc in wildlife biology and conservation, and a diploma in wolf studies and behaviour. Interviewed 15 + experts/professionals/scientists for the film - surely that’s learning?! 🤣. Also I’m very grateful for my compassion. Have a good day
If you want to make a legitimate enemy, first demonise them. It is what we as humans have done for thousands of years. We were so very fortunate to visit the UKWCT a few years ago and went on a walk with three of the wolves. After around twenty or thirty minutes we could hear the other wolves back at the trust howling in an effort to communicate with the wolves we were with. Our wolves howled back and we all stood there utterly bewitched by this natural beauty of sound. To have had that opportunity we will be forever grateful and they were just such amazing animals to be with. Thank you so much for such an informative and educational video, it has been a real treat to watch.
I do not fear wolves; I fear how humans have negatively and unjustly fear, mistreat and persecute them along with incorrectly portraying wolves as dangerous man eating beasts.
Thank you for sharing all of this very important information. I am from northwest Alaska and I grew up culturally which involve being in touch with nature and living off of the land, which also involves hunting. I am probably the only hunter of all the guys I know who haven't shot or caught a wolf. The only carnivore I ever caught was just a shiifish. I wouldn't be able to shoot a wolf because I know how important they are and also because I believe I would be able to connect with them. Idk why I believe that I'd be able to connect with them, but I always had that strong feeling in my heart since a child. Maybe it's the empathy making me feel that way, but I also always had and have a strong connection with nature.
Sean and kim are great teachers, I did one of their courses, and would like to return at some point, but due to injuries thats been it for me so far. If it's possible I think I appreciated my own dogs more for learning from them.
great film thought i would only watch about 30 minutes because i dont really like long documentary s but i watched the whole thing because i really enjoyed it
I live in rural Illinois, I am surrounded by farmers and by hunters, I am a farmer myself; you have hit the nail right on its disgusting head. Full transparency, I "deal with" (live alongside) coyotes, but much of the ideas and views are synonymous. I have had them take ducks, geese, and a few very good cats. Cats that were more family than any blood relative. But that's just the coyotes needing to eat the same as any other animal. If I want to keep my animals safe, it is my duty to do so, not by fighting the predators, but by keeping any possible contact with my animals to a minimum. Humanity has everything it needs to build fences to keep them out, buildings with full environmental control to not only keep fowl safe and happy but to keep predators out without bringing them any harm either. I have set those clamp traps, and I have ran to get the gun, and I feel horrible I ever thought that way, I ever hurt these beautiful creatures that were doing nothing more than trying to survive, the exact same as any other creature, as myself. Any person that goes out of their way to hunt these creatures does so specifically because they have to feel some sort of power over another living being. I see it in so many around me, that ask and ask to hunt my land, and I saw it drive me out into those same fields for those same cruel reasons. I don't wish to farm for much longer; I've done my fair share of taking care of animals before taking care of myself. But if I were to renew efforts, it would all be conservation. It would be done right, done in a way to allow everything to live and be beautiful, and would teach anyone who would or wouldn't listen why we all must. I would also spend my time looking for forests, honestly. I see fields of one color and I see the manicured lawns of grass, the most worthless of plants, and I hate it. I want a forest without invasive species, without concrete or asphalt, without any notable human habitation or ruination. Where I can step off pavement, walk for 20 miles, and be 20 miles from the nearest human influence. Even Yellowstone has roads through it now. No d*mnable natural environment should have the scars the US calls roads running through it. Maybe I wanted to say this to let some weight off, I'm not sure. But I know you need to know you're coming at it perfectly. You are spot on on what drives the hatred these beautiful creatures receive, what leads to the horrible things they have to go through. And the only way to get through is emotion, is empathy. So many farmers have no thought for anyone or anything they see as different, sometimes (such as my father) for absolutely nothing but themselves. Any single head of cattle lost, any most minor of infraction is treated as an atrocity against them, becomes a story told time and time again to those who will revel in the proposed confirmation of their preconceived biases. Same as when they watch the news. Any kid today has the same drive to explore, to wander through nature. But where is it anymore? A few trees in the backyard where once was a teeming forest? Out away from the house, away from the parents eyes? I wanted to explore but my parents never let me out of the house. I would've spent the same times, had the same memories people talk about from back when if I was given the chance, but my parents listening to fear-mongering from the tv left me with nothing but a d*mn screen. I know doing it here isn't the same as for real life. I wanted to. But it's disappearing, and even if it wasn't, I was locked behind a metaphorical door that I had to break down only when I was legally allowed. I had to find the beauty of these animals myself, without even seeing it in person. It's a _long_ road ahead if you want to change the minds of farmers and hunters that act like this. To change their minds instead of waiting the likely eternity before they change their own. But all my greatest hopes to you.
Great job, this film. If ever you go to France, don't miss "La pyramide du loup", a museum founded by a friend. And if you go there, please let me know so that I can try to be there as well. SUggestion : a docu about the jackal, this champion of hide and seek and of hop, skip and jump. The golden jackal is now colonising W Europe and may well become the predator of coypu and muskrats we need.
I recently read an intersting quote from a dutch farmer who had sheep killed by a wolf : "Is this the nature we want?" Nature is OK as long as it's decently raked and shoveled, stays "caressable" and doesn't get in the way...
I've been an advocate of wolves returning to the US since I was a young man and was still a hunter. I didn't want to hunt wolves, but I saw their place in the eco-system while deer hunting. The deer herd was out of control. The herd required culling, and hunting was not doing the job that wolves do. Humans search out the biggest racks, the biggest buck the hunters could find. That's precisely the opposite of the way that wolvrs hunt. Wolves take the aling, the least effective examples of the herd. That's the type of sample that a wolf pack will chill from deer herds. Wolves have been missing from our ecosystem for so long, we need to allow the wolves to reestablish their packs long before we begin hunting them. It's as if people believe that wolves were only reintroduced to become a target for hunters.
Great documentary! The sad reality is that humanity is completely out of control. Pollution is rampant, animals are losing land all over the planet, oceans are completely polluted, consumerism is the rule for so many, not mentioning, climate change, the pandemic, global migration, etc. Uff!! Soooo many issues.
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If you haven't noticed, wolves and dogs are different species. We were once prey to canines thousands of years ago, even further than homosapiens. We likely hold some genetic instincts to fear wolves. Dogs are the wolves who realized our potential and were less aggressive, wolves are the ones who chose to remain feral and roam. Since hugging/petting dogs releases oxytocin for humans [coevolution], I assume this is why dogs don't elicut the wolf fear in [most] humans. Wolves likely self domesticated themselves by hanging out eating human scraps, with the chill ones being the only ones hanging out. Wolves are better at standing guard past the campfire light, so we would only have to look to the wolves to know if an outsider or bigger animal was nearing the fire while they ate our scraps.
Given the new wolf hunting bills in the US, which are basically wolf hating bill, I’d do another vid on that. While most people are under the false belief, that the state biologists are in charge of policies, this is simply not true. In MT for instance neither state reps Fielder or Brown are biologists and they have passed bills that don’t even resemble responsible management or ethical hunting in the least. I’d do an interview with MT wolf biologists Dianne Boyd and see if she still supports wolf hunting. www.gravel.org/2019/03/15/biologist-diane-boyd-does-some-wolf-mythbusting/
What Ranchers don't understand is that wolves do on farms what they do in the wild, they detect sickness and defect that humans can't detect. There are videos of them NOT taking down a calf bison in their reach but run right past the calves and take down an adult bison. When researchers foresiced the cached bison to find out why the wolves chose a harder kill that risked injury and was more than they could consume, they discovered the bison had an existing problem in its hind leg. Wolves, if they attack livestock it's that they detected defect or sickness. Grey wolves never sport kill or destructively kill, but coywolves, coydogs, wolfdogs and coyotes DO. Greys are unique, They only break character if they are under duress. They, kill at the throat before eating, the ground will pin the victim but wait for the one at the throat to detect death or lack of pulse and movement. Greys are UNIQUE, they help flora and fauna to thrive, they won't over hunt a species but will change their menu to the prey that is out of balance and disrupting the balance. Not all wolf species are alike, Greys are STEWARDS OF THE FORESTS... humans forgot their role as stewards and can't find fault with the loyalty the Grey Wolves uphold in their absence. I can't stand the misinformation that lumps all wolf species into a single identity. The Grey Wolf is a victim of Identity Theft... they deserve to be exonerated from the bad actors and impostors.
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I think one has to imagine this, say, 17th our 18th century rural family which depended on their few goats or sheep or pigs for food in winter. A wolf who took one or more of these was indeed a threat to their survival. Authorities, whether religious or not, which pretended to organise them to get rid of these fiends were thence capitalising on fear of hunger.
Trophy hunting is just crazy especially nowadays when the power difference between man and animals is so enormous, I feel that only omegas (in wolf terms) do it
Someone please just tell me where I can help with wolves. What meetings do I need to go to? I absolutely would do anything for wolves. I just don't know where to start. Or where to go
you can donate or adopt wolves to the wolf conservation center, or other associations of the same kind that aims at protecting/rescuing wildlife animals. Or sharing news about wolf topic on social medias to spread awareness ? :-)
To think that someone would enjoy killing these beautiful animals is beyond my comprehension. This was a wonderful documentary, another one I highly recommend is “How Wolves Change Rivers”. Thank You for posting this for free!
Man killed lions and tigers and bears because they killed us and it became a great honor to be seen as a hunter. We are looking at the whole idea from a view of them being almost gone they are not a threat anymore because they are nolonger exist in great numbers.
It's ludicrous to state that "alpha" has anything to do with "aggression". Alpha is simply the name of the first letter of the alphabet, it means first, top, best. It has nothing to do with aggression. Alpha pair is a good term because it's what it is, the *pair* that leads and raises the pack, the king and queen, if you will, and entirely different from most social mammals which use a harem-type society. Moving away from that term is nothing but postmodernism, everything must be "nice" so we think by calling it something else, it changes reality. Wolves are pretty brutal with each other, they use physical corrections, with teeth baring, pouncing and physically displacing each other, a lot more than dogs do, especially towards the bottom member of the pack, but there's nothing wrong with that, and they still treasure every pack member. Still, the hierarchy exists and there is a top (alpha), a second (beta) and a bottom (omega).
43'55'' quate cited from George : There is a pleasure in the pathless woods There is a rapture on the lonely shore There is a society, where none intrudes by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not man the less, but nature more George Gordon Lord Byron (from Childe Harold, Canto IV, verse 178)
@@AnimalEducate The Wolf and the Caribou According to the textbooks, a wolf is a hunter, an animal of prey. But the Inuit, the people of the North, take a different view of it. They have their own idea of why the wolf was created. In the beginning - so the legend says - there was a man and a woman, nothing else on the Earth walked or swam or flew. And so the woman dug a big hole in the ground and she started fishing in it. And she pulled out all of the animals. The last animal she pulled out was the caribou. The woman set the caribou free and ordered it to multiply. And soon the land was full of them. And the people lived well and they were happy. But the hunters only killed those caribou that were big and strong. And soon all that was left were the weak and the sick. And the people began to starve. And so the woman had to make magic again, and this time she called Amorak, the spirit of the wolf, to winnow out the weak and the sick, so that the herd would once again be strong. The people realized that the caribou and the wolf were one, for although the caribou feeds the wolf, it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong. www.polarlife.ca/traditional/myth/wolf.htm
I wish people would understand the wolf's point of view. They should understand nature's point of view and see how important a large predator is to an ecosystem.
Human ego is the most dangerous weapon on earth.
Yes yes yes .👍👍
look at Yellowstone since the repopulation of wolves in the mid 90s. It is the prime example of the importance of wolves or large predators
@@aroseinwinter05 i wish we could remove ego from our species
@@joshuasmith26 Me too 😢😢😢
Beautiful creatures, wolves, and a beautiful documentary in honor of them. We as humans need to grow up and become custodians of life on our planet.
It's great to see you've hinted at the complexities of wolf conservation. Giving such important figures a chance to express their opinion on mainstream media will hopefully encourage a more informed understanding of wolves. Campaigning for a species' protection is far more effective when you understand that animal to begin with.
Thank you so much for your comment. I have received some wonderful feedback and the most important is from those that now have a balanced perception of the wolf!
None of these people r farmers have a wolf kill one of ur cows after the 5th one he's got to go bye bye and that's wat happens can't blame the farmer
@@blakerobinson9928 I think you're missing the point of the video. She is presenting an argument for wolves playing a an important role in nature, when many people see the species as completely useless.
Wolves do attack livestock, pets, and even people. When that happens, the animal responsible is often removed if deterrents and hazing don't have any effect. Predation is a very difficult political problem, and that isn't the topic of this video.
@@blakerobinson9928 Exactly. I challenge any of them to go out in to the wild and find out for themselves what wolves are like, rather than believe this Hollywood nonsense.
YES!
Only a hateful monster would harm a wolf!
Great Work - Well Presented..
Fascinating film, beautifully shot and giving us all much food for thought.
Thank you so much x
I’m so sick of the media and people buying into it so easily. I love this video, thank you for sharing this.
This is brill, Thank you
Amazing how you guys put something so amazing together in such demanding times of life.Really puts in to concept parts of nature people may not be aware of. Would love to see more content!😇
Thankyou! So glad you enjoyed 🥰🐺
Amazing how you guys put something so amazing together in such demanding times of life. Really puts in to concept parts of nature people my not be aware of. Wold love to see more content!
Wolf rland that from just back
Young wold this
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I watched this video thru to end. Detail & very insightful. Wolves are beautiful creatures. Wolves conservation is needed NOT mgmt. Thank you for uploading this wonderful story of Wolves.
We have three times(1400-2500 depending on pups) as many wolves here in Idaho than what Fish and Wildlife said we needed to maintain a healthy population. As a result of that, they are eating their way through the other wildlife we have. Management is needed to maintain a healthy balance, for the good of cougar, bear, elk, moose, deer, etc. We will always have wolves here in N. Idaho.
I really enjoyed this documentary. Thank for making it. It was very insightful.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for making this important documentary. It sheds light on so much darkness about wolves. Humans have much to learn. Ty and I look forward to more!
This needs to have millions of views
This was so lovely to watch I had to share. I myself got to experience the nature of these lovely animals as a child. My fathers friend saved one that was injured and let it live it’s life out on his property until old age. Such a loving animal.
What a kind heart he has! I bet that was an amazing experience
It's sad when people already lose contact with animals.👿 My name is Olaf and I identify with the wolf and the buffalo very much, so I can deal with my problems on my own. Respect, for commitment and for what you are. 🙏
This got recommended to me and I'm so glad I watched it. Most informative documentary I've seen on wolves and I'll have to look into that Wildwood sanctuary.
Still annoyed that my country(UK) wiped out all our wolves. If they ever get reintroduced, they better have protection.
Fantastic, hits all the right topics and handles them perfectly. I'll share this as much as I can!
Thank you for recommending this
@@AzraelOfTheRavens you are welcome
Thankyou !! 😀
@@AnimalEducate Any time 😊
Thanks NaturesTemper/ Skott for mentioning this. Thanks to those who produced this.
Dr Jane Goodall. So great to see her here too. She is a living legend.
I love wolves more than humanity.
Right there with you!
That is sad. We live with wolves every day here in Idaho and they are like the other predators around here. Don't hate them or love them. Just another wild animal.
Wow... I'm lost for words.. Beautiful documentary. I'm subscribing to your channel. Its hard to believe that wolves were native to the UK.
Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
Amazing video!!!!!
This is really cool :D
This is great thanks for the upload 👏🏾
“Wolf in spirit, human in being. I see the world with two eyes.” We cant see very well with only one eye open. So why only look at the world through one of them? We all must open both eyes when we wake. Else we will be blind to our own shortcomings.
Thank you for all you do to help wolves - Excellent film
My wolf was a sweetheart and my best friend and protector! I would have a whole pack if I could!
And thank you for that lovely story.
Love Wolves ,Loved to see them back in UK ...No to hunting .Us hikers will adjust .Learn to respect all nature. Trophy hunting what can i say .it must stop on all animals.
Outstanding stuff. Love it
I was born and raised in Northern Minnesota, still here and watching this i feel pretty lucky that I did.....
For show and tell in 3rd grade a classmate brought some old skool Walmart developed pics of a pack taking a whitetail down on a lake in the winter, to us as little hillbillyz
it was just cool they got the pics to turn out....
Great film! This is my 4th times watching this documentary film. I learned something else everytime I whatch. We need to learn how to behave toward these wolves & protect this greaceful animals!
A captivating documentary! Yes, the immense hatred of wolves began with the church. Pre-Christian European cultures revered, respected as well as feared the wolf, but many of our cultures were crafted by the innumerable stories, tales and myths of the wolf, e.g. Norse culture contains many stories and important wolf deities; so, too, the Slavic cultures and Graeco-Roman cultures.
Judeo-Abrahamic religions hate nature and they hate the nature within ourselves, which the wolf represents potently.
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I think they should be given the opportunity to come back to the UK in a controlled and sensible way.. After all they belong here..
WOW! This doc hit every note with perfect pitch! My relationship with the wolf began when I was 11 years old growing up as a city kid in Wisconsin in '91. They were endangered and mysterious. I became interested in the politics of wolf conservation. I visited a sanctuary where I met 'Marcus', a white wolf, and had the opportunity to observe him and his pack. Unfortunately, they were behind metal fences. I did some fundraising and begged my mom to donate to the sanctuary. The sanctuary no longer exists, but these experiences inspired me.
As an adult, I've made myself aware of politics, legalities, and the BLM (Bureau of Land Management), etc. Involvement is my obligation as a human on this planet! We are all obligated to be aware, engaged, and participate in our environment. We do not own this earth, but rather belong to it. Humans are so disconnected from nature and in turn from ourselves. I love that this doc highlights this awareness or lack thereof. It outlines all the complexities of the wolf in our ecosystem brilliantly. The wolf is balance. The wolf is necessary.
THANK YOU so much for your comment!
This story is close to my own. I grew up (mainly in the countryside, but somehwat in a mid size town) in the midwest in the 90s, and there haven't been wild wolves in our state in 100 years now, because of the extermination campaigns of the early 20th century.
I can't recall anymore my first introduction to wolves, but I must have been very young, because I recall being obsessed from an early age. At one point I got into a heated argument with a cousin, and ended up terribly frustrated, because I could not understand why she didn't see the logic in my arguments, why she preferred fairy tales over facts I'd spent hours accumulating, with data to back it up, haha. I didn't understand what she needed was an emotional connection. I must have been maybe 8 or 9.
Back then it was uncommon in our area to have a computer at home, and the library was just then buolding a computer lab, as I was old enough to learn to use one.
Anyone who wanted to give a gift during the holidays knew I would adore anything wolf related, so long as it wasn't misinformation or a fairy tale, because ny chance I got to be near a computer I was on the website for the international wolf center, or reading about wolves in Yellowstone, printing out pictures and facts to go with them.
One of my aunts once paid for a sponsorship (they called it an "adoption") of a wolf at the international wolf center, and I recieved a magazine and a folder with a picture and information about her. I believe her name was Mackenzie? I remember she was a black phase wolf.
Anyway. It remains one of the coolest gifts I've ever recieved, because I knew from my research it went toward sorely needed efforts in public education and care for the wolves. And of course, I had a packet full of wolf stuff lol. That was cool for me regardless.
I'm sorry to say I don't know what happened to that packet. A lot has happened in the 23 years since, and so it was lost to time. I did, however, discover there was a wolf education and conservation center in my state that I never knew existed, and it's been here my whole life!
So now that I'm an adult, when I find the time, I make the long drive and volunteer, or attend one of their special events, and I try to see who I can get to go with me to see the wolves. Once they held a really special book signing event, and I got to meet Doug Smith, have him sign my copy of the collaborative book he edited about the Yellowstone wolf project, and I got to speak with him in person. The person who started a project that I'd learned so much about in my hours researching as a kid, one of the people likely responsible for the fact that wolves and their impact on ecosystems was even brought to my attention in the first place. That was such a huge thing for me.
I'm an undergraduate studying physics, a returning adult student. And while I want to investigate the connection between gravity and the relevant forces at the smallest scales, I also still have this great passion for wolves and wildlife conservation
I hope to use what I learn, I hope to make or contribute to projects that are making a difference, to advocate in public spaces, especially where the voices pf those concerned need to be heard, and to do some public outreach as much as possible.
My dream would be to do both; perhaps do wildlife conservation efforts as my main occupation, and study some interesting physics topics at home.
I'm always so saddened by how little true wilderness exists now, how terribly humans have encroached upon and and damaged it, in some places perhaps irreversibly, and how that has impacted other life. It's horrific, some of the things we do to other life.
I hope I live to see a day where we can start truly feeling optimistic for the recovery of the planet and our relationship to nature.
Well done. 🐺❤️you did right by these majestic, intelligent, beautiful animals. I also highly recommend Jim & Jamie’s documentary - their experience with the wolves. Fascinating.
Thank you! x
Posted this to my group, 100% worth a watch if you want to avoid media, hunters and others tarnish a wolf's image!
Many thanks for uploading this :)
@NaturesTemper brought me here 😋
I’ve met 3 wolves in my life. Each taught me something different. We are all different, we must respect each other's space, and be aware of the world around you. Is a shame that it’s taken over a decade for me to see these lessons (i was still a kid for all three moments).
I struggle to understand how most people have so little regard for life except their own. They are us minus ego
I will never understand.
You a struggle until you live in a forest void of all small wildlife. Here, coyotes are rampant and they have killed all squirrels, groundhogs, skunks, opossums, even chipmunks. There is nothing left but a few deer and even their young disappeared this year.
Get a group of dogs to herd and live around the cattle, Mastiffs, shepherds and malamutes these type of dogs are easy to train and can easily in a group keep wolves just from barking away it's been done with cattle where there up against big cats and bears and the dogs protect.
Using certain dogs has been proven to work (amongst other methods). There's so many nonlethal tools.... no need to kill wolves! Thanks for your comment :)
@@AnimalEducate I love wolves it's a shame to see most humans want to solve problems by just killing the problem e.g. wolves, big cats and sea animals like sharks, they don't educate themselves to actually see that keeping them alive helps out the planet more than not having them at all and this is why I love your channel so thank you
Put any dog in that situation
Keep on the great work ..bless all wolves
I live in Utah and I grew up in a rural area but now live in the city. It’s been interesting to see the different perspectives people have on wolves, especially since I work in the animal industry specifically with dogs. I’ll never forget when I was working at a Petco in Park City someone brought in a domesticated wolf. His name was Sampson and he had a gorgeous red coat. I’ve always been fascinated with wolves and dogs and immediately knew he was a wolf. I asked if he was a full blooded wolf and they said he was but to keep it quiet so they wouldn’t get in trouble. Sampson could smell all the dogs on me and immediately started licking my hands and nuzzling into me. He was so sweet and loving, despite being massive and so wild looking. I’m 5’3” and his back was to my rib cage.
I don’t think wolves should be pets but it cemented in my mind what I’d known for years; wolves can be peaceful creatures. In rural parts of Utah many people fear wolves. They despise coyotes and foxes for taking small farm animals and so they see wolves as a bigger threat to their livestock. I appreciate that in this documentary you pointed out the actual numbers of the wolf killed livestock ratio. It isn’t much at the end of the day. What I find unfortunate is the amount of deer we hit in Utah and how they often just rot away on our roads. If there could be a wolf pack in an enclosed area and a team that picks up fresh road kill and takes it to the wolves I think it could be beneficial to everyone. Full wolves won’t look for easy pickings with livestock and an animal that tragically lost its life can give life to others.
But I also appreciate that in this documentary you touched on the religious and fairy tale backgrounds of the wolves. I feel like that plays a big part in people’s fears today especially in more rural areas that are predominantly more religious. I think both wolves and snakes get a bad reputation because of the Bible’s frequent use of metaphors that use their imagery. It’s unfortunate that so many Christians don’t appreciate the earth even though they preach that their god created the earth. I was always confused by this and learning about god creating the earth, yet we weren’t taught to appreciate the earth. I still laugh about this one time I asked why god created dinosaurs and my parents said “so they could provide fossil fuels for our cars” as if cars were naturally part of the earth too? It made no sense at all. I’m no longer a Christian but since I grew up as one I know how they think and it’s truly so archaic. Science and facts don’t matter to the majority of them, all they care about is their religion. It’s not even much about the Bible anymore since most of them don’t truly study it. It’s sad that they’ve picked and chosen what they want to use and unfortunately in most cases it’s the line “multiply and replenish the earth” that they all focus on. They think that only means to have babies and make sure those babies have grand babies and then great grand babies and so on and so forth when really shouldn’t replenishing the earth also mean to protect it and make it better for all of gods creations? Multiply the amount of animals and plants that inhabit the earth as well? Not just humans.... but most of Christianity is run by capitalism so it’s no surprise they just want more human bodies to produce more labor for profit and giving money to more churches. It’s all a very toxic cycle that is harming everyone including ourselves.
I go on The NY Wolf Conservation Center webcams and they say that they get deer killed on the road. I sometimes passed a dead deer on the vroad where I live in PA and now I think if I'd come across one I wonder who I could call and say can you take this to The Wolf Sanctuary of PA?
@@billysangel5501 For further details you can send an email. All carcass are welcome , humans included .
@@pixels1382 actually humans preferred.
Protect wolves 🐺 , I love wolves ,, stop 🛑 killing these beautiful creatures,, leave them alone ,, they are a very loyal creatures .. you need to understand and study their behaviour, before killing them just because they need to feed ,, like every creature on this planet,,
I'm with you!
The opening line made it suuuuuper easy to skip this whole thing. I thought I was about to learn something about wolves. Thanks guy!
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I was trying to find a documentary of a wolf family and was planning to click off this video, but. I ended up watching the whole thing instead. Good documentary!
Thankyou 💚
Thank you for making this. Truly an all star cast. I really like how you covered all the pertinent issues particularly Disconnection, Unmasked and Solutions. I don't know where the PR was for this. I found it by accident on the back pages of a wolf advocacy website. How did everyone else hear about it?
I was so impressed about this video. I love wolves for many years. My house is full of pictures of these mystical, majestic animal. Humanity is so wrong about wolves nature ecology need these beautiful animals. Yellowstone park has change so much since the introduction of wolves I am a regular visitor of the park since the introduction of wolves the park shows the big change of the ecology there is more vegetation, trees 🌳 has develop so much better and healthy so are flowers. The population of deer and elk have been reduce to a better number.
Thank you so much.
Thank you :). It must be wonderful to see them in the wild at Yellowstone :) one day I will get there!
@@AnimalEducate you will, just love the dedication you had put toward these gorgeous animal in the video.
Not sure about the Park but here in North Idaho, wolves have really hit our elk, moose, deer numbers hard. I spend 60-days a year in the backcountry, especially in the winter and find the remains of what they have eaten.
If you ever got to be a friend of a wolf... You would know what loyalty and love really feels like ❤️
This was an amazing documentary to watch. I also wasn't expecting Cheyenne, Tejas and Nataa to appear in memory. I volunteer at Dartmoor and was lucky to meet them
Man I so hope rewilding happens in the uk and everywhere really
People will just kill them. UK is not ready to be inclusive. Look at what we do to foxes and badgers. Better never to have been born than born into persecution.
I agree x
We need the resourced based economy system in global scale , check out Jacque Fresco’s work.
You're a hit.
when i go to my house in the woods,we can hear wolves howling ,not the best feeling ever haha, hello from croatia
It is quite appalling and sad to think how badly misinterpreted the wolf has become. How it’s numbers have diminished over the years and how they are still being affected. In my culture, the wolf stands for humility and humility is to know that you are a sacred part of creation. Live life selflessly and not selfishly. Respect your place and carry your pride with your people and praise the accomplishments of all. Do not become arrogant and self-important. I’ve grown up around the Siberian Husky, it’s from them that I had this profound love and respect for the wolf since very young. I hope to one day be an active part of their conversation. It is my dream to work with them. Thank you for this wonderful documentary.
I own & rescue wolves. They’re incredible animals & show no aggression towards humans…
i love this animal,some nature not change at all,wolves are so beautiful and wild 👍
Ty for posting this video forwarded it to the public and hope it opens peoples minds to how important it is to exust with nature including the creatures of the world NAMASTE. 👍✌✊🙏💗
Thankyou 🙏❤️
protect the wolves you dont know what you have untill its gone
I love wolves so much. I couldn't believe Trump took them off the protection list. Upset me so much. Then the slaughter happened. I cried. Just unbelievable.
I've never thought about why anyone would hate wolves. Probably because hating wolves is alien to me. I've always been fascinated by them. Admittedly I'm a massive dog lover & see Wolves as wild dogs. As with all wild animals they should be treated as wild animals. Not as some evil human killer, in reality our paths shouldn't really cross.
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Fantastic story, all that is said about the wolves, they are here to do a job and they are very close to humans, they are our ancestors as well as the birds and the bees and trees. And i suuport the legislation to save the wolves and every other animals endangered or not. They are the wilderness. Keep it up Canada you are brilliant to keep the wolves. I wish we had them in our forests in Aotearoa New Zealand From us here in Aotearoa NZ, we will support you all to look after all wild life animals around the world. Kia ora, Kiorana.
What a pretty wolf
Úlfheðnar had a symbiotic relationship with the wolf, just like the Native Americans did. They both respected them tremendously. Infact, the "Vikings", the Úlfheðnar, respected the wolf so much they wouldn't kill them.
Thanks for your comment! that's fascinating!
@@AnimalEducate welcome. I should say they didn't kill them, & were respectful of them after one became a Úlfheðnar. Because to become one, you have to kill a wolf with your bare hands. Then they wore the pelt as a trophy, also because they believed it gave them powers. Just like the Berserkers with the bears.
this should be called "I'm so soft to actually learn about the subject but feeling matter"
Thanks for commenting! I’m studying an MSc in wildlife biology and conservation, and a diploma in wolf studies and behaviour. Interviewed 15 + experts/professionals/scientists for the film - surely that’s learning?! 🤣. Also I’m very grateful for my compassion. Have a good day
If you want to make a legitimate enemy, first demonise them. It is what we as humans have done for thousands of years.
We were so very fortunate to visit the UKWCT a few years ago and went on a walk with three of the wolves. After around twenty or thirty minutes we could hear the other wolves back at the trust howling in an effort to communicate with the wolves we were with. Our wolves howled back and we all stood there utterly bewitched by this natural beauty of sound. To have had that opportunity we will be forever grateful and they were just such amazing animals to be with.
Thank you so much for such an informative and educational video, it has been a real treat to watch.
I do not fear wolves; I fear how humans have negatively and unjustly fear, mistreat and persecute them along with incorrectly portraying wolves as dangerous man eating beasts.
Thank you for sharing all of this very important information. I am from northwest Alaska and I grew up culturally which involve being in touch with nature and living off of the land, which also involves hunting. I am probably the only hunter of all the guys I know who haven't shot or caught a wolf. The only carnivore I ever caught was just a shiifish. I wouldn't be able to shoot a wolf because I know how important they are and also because I believe I would be able to connect with them. Idk why I believe that I'd be able to connect with them, but I always had that strong feeling in my heart since a child. Maybe it's the empathy making me feel that way, but I also always had and have a strong connection with nature.
We have a lot of people in this day and age who refuse to believe in science, facts and data. They cling to “alternative facts”
Wolves are awesome -- all predators are! People on the other hand...
Sean and kim are great teachers, I did one of their courses, and would like to return at some point, but due to injuries thats been it for me so far. If it's possible I think I appreciated my own dogs more for learning from them.
great film thought i would only watch about 30 minutes because i dont really like long documentary s but i watched the whole thing because i really enjoyed it
I am so glad! x and Thank you
From the time I was probably 7 years old watching the stories I never believed them I just considered it a show that was made to get an audience.
I live in rural Illinois, I am surrounded by farmers and by hunters, I am a farmer myself; you have hit the nail right on its disgusting head. Full transparency, I "deal with" (live alongside) coyotes, but much of the ideas and views are synonymous. I have had them take ducks, geese, and a few very good cats. Cats that were more family than any blood relative. But that's just the coyotes needing to eat the same as any other animal. If I want to keep my animals safe, it is my duty to do so, not by fighting the predators, but by keeping any possible contact with my animals to a minimum. Humanity has everything it needs to build fences to keep them out, buildings with full environmental control to not only keep fowl safe and happy but to keep predators out without bringing them any harm either. I have set those clamp traps, and I have ran to get the gun, and I feel horrible I ever thought that way, I ever hurt these beautiful creatures that were doing nothing more than trying to survive, the exact same as any other creature, as myself. Any person that goes out of their way to hunt these creatures does so specifically because they have to feel some sort of power over another living being. I see it in so many around me, that ask and ask to hunt my land, and I saw it drive me out into those same fields for those same cruel reasons. I don't wish to farm for much longer; I've done my fair share of taking care of animals before taking care of myself. But if I were to renew efforts, it would all be conservation. It would be done right, done in a way to allow everything to live and be beautiful, and would teach anyone who would or wouldn't listen why we all must. I would also spend my time looking for forests, honestly. I see fields of one color and I see the manicured lawns of grass, the most worthless of plants, and I hate it. I want a forest without invasive species, without concrete or asphalt, without any notable human habitation or ruination. Where I can step off pavement, walk for 20 miles, and be 20 miles from the nearest human influence. Even Yellowstone has roads through it now. No d*mnable natural environment should have the scars the US calls roads running through it.
Maybe I wanted to say this to let some weight off, I'm not sure. But I know you need to know you're coming at it perfectly. You are spot on on what drives the hatred these beautiful creatures receive, what leads to the horrible things they have to go through. And the only way to get through is emotion, is empathy. So many farmers have no thought for anyone or anything they see as different, sometimes (such as my father) for absolutely nothing but themselves. Any single head of cattle lost, any most minor of infraction is treated as an atrocity against them, becomes a story told time and time again to those who will revel in the proposed confirmation of their preconceived biases. Same as when they watch the news. Any kid today has the same drive to explore, to wander through nature. But where is it anymore? A few trees in the backyard where once was a teeming forest? Out away from the house, away from the parents eyes? I wanted to explore but my parents never let me out of the house. I would've spent the same times, had the same memories people talk about from back when if I was given the chance, but my parents listening to fear-mongering from the tv left me with nothing but a d*mn screen. I know doing it here isn't the same as for real life. I wanted to. But it's disappearing, and even if it wasn't, I was locked behind a metaphorical door that I had to break down only when I was legally allowed. I had to find the beauty of these animals myself, without even seeing it in person.
It's a _long_ road ahead if you want to change the minds of farmers and hunters that act like this. To change their minds instead of waiting the likely eternity before they change their own. But all my greatest hopes to you.
I didn’t know wolves were wiped out in the uk, I think that’s so sad and horrific because I adore them and their haunting sound♥️
Great job, this film. If ever you go to France, don't miss "La pyramide du loup", a museum founded by a friend. And if you go there, please let me know so that I can try to be there as well.
SUggestion : a docu about the jackal, this champion of hide and seek and of hop, skip and jump. The golden jackal is now colonising W Europe and may well become the predator of coypu and muskrats we need.
I recently read an intersting quote from a dutch farmer who had sheep killed by a wolf : "Is this the nature we want?" Nature is OK as long as it's decently raked and shoveled, stays "caressable" and doesn't get in the way...
I'm leaving coment, 'cause I want more people to see this documentary
I've been an advocate of wolves returning to the US since I was a young man and was still a hunter. I didn't want to hunt wolves, but I saw their place in the eco-system while deer hunting. The deer herd was out of control. The herd required culling, and hunting was not doing the job that wolves do. Humans search out the biggest racks, the biggest buck the hunters could find. That's precisely the opposite of the way that wolvrs hunt. Wolves take the aling, the least effective examples of the herd. That's the type of sample that a wolf pack will chill from deer herds.
Wolves have been missing from our ecosystem for so long, we need to allow the wolves to reestablish their packs long before we begin hunting them.
It's as if people believe that wolves were only reintroduced to become a target for hunters.
Great documentary! The sad reality is that humanity is completely out of control. Pollution is rampant, animals are losing land all over the planet, oceans are completely polluted, consumerism is the rule for so many, not mentioning, climate change, the pandemic, global migration, etc. Uff!! Soooo many issues.
Wolves my favorite animal 🐺
can I use an excerpt of your video to create a video?
is your video royalties free?
or do you want to keep the license?
Hello, thanks for your comment. Apologies I can’t authorise that. My videos are not royalty free. You can always email me at animaleducate@gmail.com and give me more information about usage and exactly what clips you would like to use. Thanks 🙏
If you haven't noticed, wolves and dogs are different species. We were once prey to canines thousands of years ago, even further than homosapiens. We likely hold some genetic instincts to fear wolves. Dogs are the wolves who realized our potential and were less aggressive, wolves are the ones who chose to remain feral and roam. Since hugging/petting dogs releases oxytocin for humans [coevolution], I assume this is why dogs don't elicut the wolf fear in [most] humans.
Wolves likely self domesticated themselves by hanging out eating human scraps, with the chill ones being the only ones hanging out. Wolves are better at standing guard past the campfire light, so we would only have to look to the wolves to know if an outsider or bigger animal was nearing the fire while they ate our scraps.
U k need to bring back links bear wolves
bears r to big for the uk there would be to many problems bringing them back
come to romania,he have a lot. the jungle of europe
Given the new wolf hunting bills in the US, which are basically wolf hating bill, I’d do another vid on that. While most people are under the false belief, that the state biologists are in charge of policies, this is simply not true. In MT for instance neither state reps Fielder or Brown are biologists and they have passed bills that don’t even resemble responsible management or ethical hunting in the least. I’d do an interview with MT wolf biologists Dianne Boyd and see if she still supports wolf hunting.
www.gravel.org/2019/03/15/biologist-diane-boyd-does-some-wolf-mythbusting/
How about managering humans
Did you fly to yellowstone, Mr Packham?
Chris Packham offsets his flights by a long shot. “Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes”
@@AnimalEducate how does he offset?
@@Mickster71 not wasting my time with this I’m afraid…. Do some research instead
What Ranchers don't understand is that wolves do on farms what they do in the wild, they detect sickness and defect that humans can't detect. There are videos of them NOT taking down a calf bison in their reach but run right past the calves and take down an adult bison. When researchers foresiced the cached bison to find out why the wolves chose a harder kill that risked injury and was more than they could consume, they discovered the bison had an existing problem in its hind leg. Wolves, if they attack livestock it's that they detected defect or sickness. Grey wolves never sport kill or destructively kill, but coywolves, coydogs, wolfdogs and coyotes DO. Greys are unique, They only break character if they are under duress. They, kill at the throat before eating, the ground will pin the victim but wait for the one at the throat to detect death or lack of pulse and movement. Greys are UNIQUE, they help flora and fauna to thrive, they won't over hunt a species but will change their menu to the prey that is out of balance and disrupting the balance. Not all wolf species are alike, Greys are STEWARDS OF THE FORESTS... humans forgot their role as stewards and can't find fault with the loyalty the Grey Wolves uphold in their absence. I can't stand the misinformation that lumps all wolf species into a single identity. The Grey Wolf is a victim of Identity Theft... they deserve to be exonerated from the bad actors and impostors.
@@jibberoverjava thank you so much for your comment
More wolves, less sheep
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I think one has to imagine this, say, 17th our 18th century rural family which depended on their few goats or sheep or pigs for food in winter. A wolf who took one or more of these was indeed a threat to their survival. Authorities, whether religious or not, which pretended to organise them to get rid of these fiends were thence capitalising on fear of hunger.
Trophy hunting is just crazy especially nowadays when the power difference between man and animals is so enormous, I feel that only omegas (in wolf terms) do it
Someone please just tell me where I can help with wolves. What meetings do I need to go to? I absolutely would do anything for wolves. I just don't know where to start. Or where to go
you can donate or adopt wolves to the wolf conservation center, or other associations of the same kind that aims at protecting/rescuing wildlife animals. Or sharing news about wolf topic on social medias to spread awareness ? :-)
Uno de los animales más fantásticos y hermosos del planeta conservemos a los lobos de todo el mundo por favor.
I've always despised people who hate wolves
To think that someone would enjoy killing these beautiful animals is beyond my comprehension. This was a wonderful documentary, another one I highly recommend is “How Wolves Change Rivers”. Thank You for posting this for free!
Man killed lions and tigers and bears because they killed us and it became a great honor to be seen as a hunter. We are looking at the whole idea from a view of them being almost gone they are not a threat anymore because they are nolonger exist in great numbers.
It's ludicrous to state that "alpha" has anything to do with "aggression". Alpha is simply the name of the first letter of the alphabet, it means first, top, best. It has nothing to do with aggression. Alpha pair is a good term because it's what it is, the *pair* that leads and raises the pack, the king and queen, if you will, and entirely different from most social mammals which use a harem-type society.
Moving away from that term is nothing but postmodernism, everything must be "nice" so we think by calling it something else, it changes reality. Wolves are pretty brutal with each other, they use physical corrections, with teeth baring, pouncing and physically displacing each other, a lot more than dogs do, especially towards the bottom member of the pack, but there's nothing wrong with that, and they still treasure every pack member.
Still, the hierarchy exists and there is a top (alpha), a second (beta) and a bottom (omega).
43'55'' quate cited from George :
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is a society, where none intrudes
by the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less, but nature more
George Gordon Lord Byron (from Childe Harold, Canto IV, verse 178)
Have you heard the Inuit Wolf and Caribou creation myth?
I think you'd like the ecological perspective preserved in this culture mythos.
Thank you! I will check it out
@@AnimalEducate
The Wolf and the Caribou
According to the textbooks, a wolf is a hunter, an animal of prey.
But the Inuit, the people of the North, take a different view of it. They have their own idea of why the wolf was created.
In the beginning - so the legend says - there was a man and a woman, nothing else on the Earth walked or swam or flew.
And so the woman dug a big hole in the ground and she started fishing in it. And she pulled out all of the animals. The last animal she pulled out was the caribou. The woman set the caribou free and ordered it to multiply. And soon the land was full of them. And the people lived well and they were happy. But the hunters only killed those caribou that were big and strong.
And soon all that was left were the weak and the sick. And the people began to starve. And so the woman had to make magic again, and this time she called Amorak, the spirit of the wolf, to winnow out the weak and the sick, so that the herd would once again be strong.
The people realized that the caribou and the wolf were one, for although the caribou feeds the wolf, it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.
www.polarlife.ca/traditional/myth/wolf.htm