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democracies in fur, voting with their feet and ruling by who others choose to follow
means The plural of wolf — large wild canines that hunt in coordinated packs and are the ancestors of domestic dogs.
from From Old English 'wulf,' a word that runs deep through the Germanic family — German 'Wolf,' Dutch 'wolf,' Old Norse 'úlfr' all share the same ancestor, and it traces back to the Proto-Indo-European root '*wlkwos,' a cousin of Latin 'lupus' and Greek 'lykos' (the 'lyk-' behind 'werewolf' and 'lycanthropy'). The unusual plural 'wolves,' with its f-to-v softening, follows the same old pattern as 'leaf/leaves' and 'knife/knives.'
- alpha myth
- dominant wolves are just parents; alpha theory came from captives
- howl ID
- each wolf's howl is a unique acoustic fingerprint
- river engineers
- Yellowstone wolves reshaped rivers by thinning elk herds
- long haul
- a single wolf once walked over 4,000 miles
- vote count
- packs decide to move once enough members sneeze
grey wolves of yellowstone — reintroduced 1995-96, now ~1,700 wolves across the ecosystem
italian apennine wolves — recovered from ~100 in 1970s to ~2,000+ today, symbol of european conservation