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[-] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 122 points 2 days ago

This feel oddly real and heterosexual, I don't like it

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

I have someone related to me that took in a stray Maine Coon cat that was actually a Bob cat and they didn't find out until the first vet visit. I think it had to go to some zoo or like Sanctuary place because they had it for quite a while and were feeding it like regular wet cat food.

[-] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 30 points 2 days ago

Don't worry, I'm pretty sure it's fake (and gay)

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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 147 points 2 days ago

Wolf: "W...What the.... brain overloads from getting pet like a good boy"

[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 152 points 2 days ago

Wolf: I hope this doesn’t awaken something in me

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago

I wonder if those humans have any more of those delicious pastries

[-] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 94 points 2 days ago

Ha ha, "looks like he's going to call HR for inappropriate contact"

For the record, there has never been a documented attack of a healthy wolf on a person in North America. Obviously if they get rabies or distemper or something all bets are off.

[-] Talentlesssculptor@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

You are wrong. Candice Berner, Kenton Carnegie and Marc Leblond were all deemed to have been killed by healthy wolves.

There have been at least 24 non-fatal wolf attacks by healthy wolves since 2000 in north America alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_America

[-] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)
[-] Talentlesssculptor@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Teyrnon is wrong because they claimed that there are no documented attacks of a healthy wolf attacking a person in northern America. In fact, there have been three lethal and 24 non-lethal documented attacks by healthy wolfs since 2000 in north America.

[-] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

One of the fatalities is this

Wyman was a wildlife biologist who worked as a caretaker in the Wolf Centre section of the Haliburton Forest & Wildlife Reserve. She was killed by five captive wolves on the third day of her employment.

There's a bunch of captivity based attacks that were not fatalities.

Most of the attacks were solitary joggers, hikers, dog walkers etc that would have been triggering a chase instinct. One of the incidents was ambush on two people:

Noah was awake and talking to his girlfriend when a lone wolf attacked from behind, biting his head. He kicked, screamed, punched, and grabbed, and it ran off. He was taken to the hospital, requiring 17 staples to close a large head wound and to get precautionary injections. Authorities killed the wolf the next day and sent the body for rabies and DNA testing. The wolf tested negative for rabies but was diagnosed with deformities and brain damage.

It's not completely out of the question that a wolf was investigating a nice smell, and after getting the prize left. Definitely fits the pattern of the animals slowly acclimatizing to human activity. That wolf wasn't dangerous then, but it would become dangerous.

[-] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 hours ago

Yes, "no xyz" is usually an overstatement. Your counterargument seems to suggest wolf attacks are common, however, which they are not.

[-] Talentlesssculptor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Not common, just possible. OP's story is incredible, not impossible.

[-] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 93 points 2 days ago

There's also never been a documented case of a wolf contacting HR

[-] Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 days ago

There would be NDAs involved, so take that data with a grain of salt.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 23 points 2 days ago

That's because HR will anonymise the contact data before publishing

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Another element that could be at play here:

He thought it was a dog.

Dogs, because we domesticated them, have muscles around their eyes, that allow them to make eye/eyebrow expressions.

Wolves do not have these. Because they're the ones we did not domesticate for millenia.

So, if he was expecting dog expressions... wolves literally cannot make the same facial expressions.

They essentially always look like they have RBF, in comparison to a dog.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

It's thought the species we domesticated was distinct from wolves of today. That species went extinct in the wild.

[-] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 5 points 18 hours ago

Interestingly some dog breeds also still lack those muscles, like huskies

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago

Huh! You're right, I did not know that.

Huskies are... much closer to being actual wolves though, genetically speaking.

Seems like this applies to malamutes and samoyeds as well...?

[-] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 4 points 16 hours ago

I wonder do dingoes have them. I haven't been able to find any information on that yet

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

My, ahem, blind guess would be probably not, as they've... not been widely and thoroughly domesticated for 20,000+ years?

[-] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago

Oh the genetic confirmation for dingoes to have arrived in Australia is about 8000 years ago these days. So it's about when did the extra muscles evolve and in which genetic lines? Dingoes and the new guinea singing dog are traced to have come from the wolves domesticated in Asia, so I guess they wouldn't have them unless they evolved independently or the genes spread before they got separated in Guinea and Australia? But then do japanese breeds also not have them since they're from the same lines probably? I don't know, there's just too little information online. Or if there's more, I can't find it

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

No idea what the more precise timeline is, for when and where dogs started having eyebrow muscles.

Maybe if we did something comparable to the Human Genome Project, but for dogs, we could figure it out, lol?

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

There have been documented healthy wolf attacks in North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_America

Some on the list are rabid, but the list also includes both captive and predative wolf attacks, including fatalities.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago
[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 43 points 2 days ago

Meanwhile cats just showed up, said that they live here now. 10,000 years later, cats run the internet and more or less still the same genetically for the past 10,000 years.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

more or less still the same genetically for the past 10,000 years

That doesn't stop people from trying.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They kill rats.

Keep the granaries uninfested.

And roughly half of them also carry a parasite that rewires the brain/neurological DNA of humans via epigenetic manipulation.

Also they can be adorable.

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

I thought that parasite wasn't carried long-term by cats, only by humans?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii

Toxoplasma gondii (/ˈtɒksəˌplæzmə ˈɡɒndi.aɪ, -iː/) is a species of parasitic alveolate that causes toxoplasmosis.[3] Found worldwide, T. gondii is capable of infecting virtually all warm-blooded animals,[4]: 1  but members of the cat family (Felidae) are the only known definitive hosts in which the parasite may undergo sexual reproduction.[5][6]

Can infect basically any mammal, but cats are their preffered hosts.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days ago

The wolf his pack now calls Poptart

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

"It was one time!"

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