Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
A wolf pack: the first 3 are the old or sick, they give the pace to the entire pack. If it were the other way round, they would be left behind, losing contact with the pack. In case of an ambush they would be sacrificed.
Then come 5 strong ones, the front line.
In the center are the rest of the pack members, then the 5 strongest following.
Last is alone, the alpha. He controls everything from the rear. In that position he can see everything, decide the direction. He sees all of the pack.
The pack moves according to the elders pace and help each other, watch each other.
By Donald Wilson
Last year I was at the airport for a flight and they kept changing our gate. There was an extended family on the same flight and I noticed that at each change they would collect their stuff and head out with Dad leading the way, Mom, Grandma, and the kids in the middle, and Grandpa bringing up the rear to make sure that they didn’t lose anybody. It was an amazing example of this type of pack mentality in humans. What was even more amazing was that, when I finally commented to Dad about it, he didn’t even realize what they were doing – it just happened naturally.
The dad in front is the man of action and the decision-maker. The grandpa in the rear is the one to checks that all goes according to plan and that the plan is a good one. The women take care of the young and each other.
In the movie Home Alone, the woman fails at this job but leads the mission to round up the missing child. The dad fulfills his job to get the family to their destination. Bull dykes do not have this same instinct.
“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ” -Aristotle
And the union preceded the states. Which is a-ok as an opinion. Force that opinion tho, use it to justify trespass, well then JW Booth is a-ok, too. Sic semper tyrannis.
I was fascinated watching a ‘nature’ program about a lone wild dog in Africa. So strong is the need to belong to a pack this female dog ran first with some hyenas then took up with a pair of jackals with whatever jackal puppies are called.
The dog joined with the jackals to fight off a hyena and guarded the den to the point it would not even allow the jackals access to the puppies! When a pack of wild dogs appeared the dog sensed they would not accept her into the pack and cast her lot with the jackal family
Man and dogs maybe alone in the animal kingdom in their ability to transfer loyalty beyond their own kind. Some have suggested that it is all the ‘junk’ DNA we carry that gives us this ability. Dogs have a huge amount of it which gives them their vast diversity in appearance and behavior. I would not be surprised if Europeans have more junk DNA than Africans, if junk DNA accounts for this extraordinary ability to transfer loyalty, as it would account for much of what we see in the world around us.
Exactly what do u mean, Tarzan had to be a white man to join with the apes? Dogs have many colours due to junk dna, and junk dna in humans isn’t expressed in many colours but just white. That makes sense. So european and african are same species just as poodle is to pit bull. Thats why only white people treat dogs and cats as their children then. I dont think so or most vegetarians would be aryan instead of asian.
This shows that a picture is not all that it portrays. My immediate thought was, “Oh no…the poor wolf in the back is likely to be eaten.” The words say differently. My struggle is to equivocate this with today’s “modern family” as the pic would have many branches. Sobering.
That is a beautiful picture of the wolves
and their trekking order. I love it! I love
big dogs and I (used to) love training. It is
great to train in a group because dogs check around?
They want to be the best one. I miss that.
Hi Suzanna. Once I understood the picture (after I read the words) I loved it too. Upon reading the title cation and seeing the picture, it took reading the words to form a complete concept.
Similar to here. Gr Ma leads and sets the pace. Gr Pa covers the rear and pays for everything that the younger and smaller pack members require to stay on the path. With humans the Alpha keeps his status, not with strength, but with the fattest wallet.
The love & loyalty of our canine friends is quite special, priceless & rarely found in people. My memories of her: the warm, fuzzy frolicking and the cold, prickly pain when she had to be put to down, still makes me well up, over a decade later.
“A wolf pack: the first 3 are the old or sick, they give the pace to the entire pack.” ….. etc.
Is this true? Or did someone make it up? Sounds like something conjured up by some idiot trying to make a statement.
my thoughts fire,i thought that if they couldn’t keep up they were sol–
what sorrow that you know so little of the natural world , like a wolf mates for life, no big D, just love for life, think that’s weird, well geese mate for life also , this i saw with my own eyes , while duck hunting i jumped a pair of lone geese in a small pond, one back and white ,one all white, i shot and missed the black and white but killed the white, the black and white began to circle , i knew the was not a action i had seen before ( he should have flown away) but no, he are she ,landed in the water and and began to peck at his are her mate , i understood with sadness this was a bound pair, i killed the second, but will always know , that true love is forever , and geese mate for life also . So do others , and yes the pack is real .
@texas 2 step: Where did I say that animals don’t love and take care of each other? That’s right, no where.
I said this sounds like another of the so-prevalent do gooders paving the road to hell. Turning truth into lies and lies into truth, somehow feeling the need and capability to improve on the natural order. I’m skeptical, but than I’m tired of the incessant BS.
While we’re at it, explain this. Who or what successfully ambushes packs of wolves? Often enough to dictate the packs’ structure. Could it even be done given the animals sharp senses and the meandering nature of the pack? And just take out those animals in front? All the while fending off another dozen or more 150 pound killing machines on the fight?
And what about the old and sick breaking trail for the strong? There’s going to be drifts to be broken through and crusted snow which is cutting to the feet and legs. This is normally done by the stronger members of the group. You mention geese, haven’t you noticed how a large bird commonly leads the formation, breaking the wind for the following flock?
So you shot a pair of geese sitting in a pond?? I don’t get it. I’m far from anti-hunting, but isn’t that against all sportsman etiquette? Aren’t you supposed to shoot a goose or other bird while it’s flying? I’m guessing the old adage ‘like shooting a sitting duck’ comes into play. And not in a good way…
The wolves are armed with brains, teeth, and claws, and do not hesitate to use them in defense of the pack. It’s the basis of the natural law of self defense.
Current law makes defending the person or the pack a very chancy thing.
“NOW this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky,
And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth forward and back;
For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack…”
Rudyard Kipling
Break it or no, everything living must die. People packing up for quantity is a low quality move. And motive. Which begets low quality moves & motives. And outcomes. And lowered incomes. Biological imperator’d book cookers r “us.” It’s a jungle book in there. Which is why it’s a jungle out there. Not the Disney cartoon. Or the Disney lie about the oh-so social lemmings love of cliffs. White wilderness, & noise, indeed…but all the other colors, too, & green especially. 1st casualty of war, is you know what. So Upton Sinclair did some lying in “The Jungle” to take it to those other jungle liars. Meatpacker union (doubly loaded – duly noted?) coalesced to battle the preexisting union (which preceded the individual\s according to Aristotle & Lincoln & prolly other panderers). If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em is the credo that gogogo’s. Hmm, sounds like “gigolo.” The book says we may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.
God’s dead said the Neech. Neech’s dead said the Jungle Booker. JB’s dead said Zed. Zeds dead said the Butch. All in. All aboard. Just one border. Just a ride. It’s a chopper, baby – get yer dentures here. Mass transit ain’t a hide. Every en masse is a one by one, no matter what else it may look like, feel like.
Fake BS, check everything
+5 Marty, thanks for the suggestion.
Though two different “fact checkers” say almost the same thing, they don’t. I’ll let you discover the differences
here
and here http://www.snopes.com/wolf-pack-photo/
One good description of wolf pack behavior can be read here
https://anarchyinaction.org/index.php?title=Gray_wolf