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misspeachfoxley:

tuulikki:

soracities:

soracities:

genuinely cant stop thinking about whatever early human first looked a literal wolf full in the face and thought domestication would be fun but ALSO cant stop thinking about the ENTIRE early human tribe that absolutely did NOT think to stop them

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HOLD THE PHONE

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Slightly related: I read a book by Rick McIntyre, who was official Wolf Guy at Yellowstone Park for 25 years (and studied wolves for 40 yrs total). He describes how, when they\u2019re alone, wolves\u2014both adults and pups\u2014will pick up sticks or bones or bits of animal skin and toss them around to entertain themselves, the way you might toss a ball up and down. They essentially play catch by themselves.

So if wolves do this by themselves, in nature, that means that we saw them playing this game and thought \u201chuh, that wolf enjoys fetching the stick it\u2019s throwing for itself, maybe I could throw it further and it would like that more?\u201d And thus began our two species\u2019 mutual favourite game to play together

But the point is that they invented fetch

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they made fetch happen

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