The Wolf Appreciation Thread.

[curiousman]

Marcos Pantoja lived in the mountains alone with wolves for 12 years, since he was abandoned by his father when was 6 years old.









A film about about his life:

Fascinating!

[Smaug]

Wolves are indeed beautiful creatures. This is the Maned Wolf, known as "Lobo Guará", it is the largest wolf of South America, found in Central and Southern Brazil:

[hisn]

Spoiler!

Tooth of one of the first of 43+ wolves to be murdered this season in MI.

[Aila]

Jian Rong’s book the: “Wolf Totem” affected me deeply when I first read it, so now I have got such great expectations for the film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (coming out in 2014) – that I hope I will not be disappointed.



http://www.screendaily.com/features/...063375.article

http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2012-10...t_26882422.htm

http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2012-08...t_26327043.htm

[Rudel]

Wolf definitely phased out from France in the 1930's, but they've been coming back from Italy for a few decades now, with the decline of pastoral life. They've settled on our side of the Alps but they've been spotted all around.
As far North as Western Lorraine and West over the Rhone valley (which would be theoretically a huge obstacle with its high speed train line, it's highway and its very high urban density, but wolf don't care) in the South of the Massif Central (that's right, wolves in the Gévaudan) and South at the bottom of the Pyrenees.

[Empecinado]

Lobo Herreño, a native dog breed native from El Hierro island in Canaries. It's a dog but looks kinda similar to some wolf races:

[Rudel]

Lobo Herreño, a native dog breed native from El Hierro island in Canaries. It's a dog but looks kinda similar to some wolf races:

Probably an archaic shepherd dog or an ancient crossbreed with North-African wolves.

[Empecinado]

Probably an archaic shepherd dog or an ancient crossbreed with North-African wolves.

Yes, it was the shepherd used by the Canarian Aborigines.

[Aurora]

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one." The grandson asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart, Grandfather?" The grandfather answered, "The one I feed."

[microrobert]

Alfred Kowalski-Wierusz - Stado wilków (A pack of wolves)