Is this a screenshot of Tumblr, that’s a screenshot of 4chan, that’s a screenshot of a news article?
What a future.
Take a lemmy screenshot and post it to Facebook
Memba when they marketed the web as this great big all-encompassing thing where you could find anything if you knew where and how to look? The modern web is like 6 sites chained together in a Content Centipede.
I think it's a Tumblr post that contains a collage of the news article, wolf picture, and a section of the 4chan post.
The quality is surprisingly good, though. Usually they're blurred all to hell.
I'm happy they rescued the wolf from the icy river.
Let them towel you off, maybe get a snack. What's the worst that could happen?
Why fren shaped if not fren?
A wolf could have easily killed whoever was handling it. I guess it was just completely resigned to the situation.
While wolves can cause fatal injuries, they rarely do. From 1952 to 2002, there were 8 deaths in Europe + Russia, and 3 in North America. Most wolf attacks occur in south Asia, due to rabies.
Link to the full article if you want to read the story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47330924
The Estonian Union for the Protection of Animals (EUPA) said the wolf had low blood pressure when it arrived at the veterinarian's office, which may have explained its docile nature after the men carried it to their car to warm it up.
Aww
"He was calm, slept on my legs. When I wanted to stretch them, he raised his head for a moment," he added.
Awwww
They were lucky that wolf was so chill...
Good boy
Thanks 🥰
I saw the blanket and "ancestors warned me" and my initial first thought was FAR DARKER than domestication xD
cough cough
Ummm.. Context?
In North America, White Settlers attempted to kill First Nations people with blankets given as gifts that were infected with smallpox
edit: "During a parley in midst of the siege on 24 June 1763, Captain Simeon Ecuyer gave representatives of the besieging Delawares two blankets and a handkerchief enclosed in small metal boxes that had been exposed to smallpox, in an attempt to spread the disease to the Natives in order to end the siege"
That's gotta be a wolf coyote mix right? He's too small to be a full blown wolf
Article said it was estimated to only be about a year old by a local hunter; I’m going to assume that’s not full-grown for a wolf
I wonder if a wolf experiencing such a traumatic thing like this at such a young age, only to be rescued by humans, does anything to "fast track" their domestication?
Like are they aware at some level that they owe their life to this human? Like I wonder if you looked at it side-by-side with a normal wolf cub taken out of the wild and treated as a dog, would it end up more or less docile as an adult?
Ah that makes sense then
I was going to say there are no coyotes in Europe but my quick research revealed the somewhat similar golden jackal is at least native to southern Europe. So it is possible, but I'm leaning towards it being an adolescent.
Jackal territory reaches to the south of Romania and Hungary which are still about 1450 km (900 miles) from Estonia. So unless some lonely canine went on a looong honeymoon I'd say that's rather unlikely.
There's 1,000+ miles and the Carpathian Mountains between Estonia and the range of the golden jackal, though
I'm more of a cat person, but I'd still totally would.
Legoshi vibes.
