Wolves React To Gamekeeper Who Had Been Away On Maternity Leave
“WHERE’S YOUR PUPPY! WE WANNA SEE YOUR PUPPY! DID YOU JUST HAVE THE ONE? DO YOU HAVE THEM WITH YOU? ARE THERE PHOTOS?”
SO EXCITED TO SEE HOOMAN FRIEN
I love how the first one stops before running into her and gives her kisses and a delicate hug, and then another one just comes CAREENING IN to half tackle her.
This is a textbook example of trophic cascade, where predators influencing the behaviour of their prey species drastically influences species elsewhere on the “food chain” or trophic level.
And it’s amazing.
This is a short documentary on this subject on wolves in Yellowstone:
here’s a slightly longer one (with surprise!narrator Edward Norton):
knitting in the dark 