Research Blog 13.06.2008 - 21.09.2008

Overview

  • Shy wolves or what?

    Vigilant

    Kurt Kotrschal, 21.09.2008

    Over the last week the wolfs respond ever more strongly to visitors approaching their enclosure. They already become vigilant towards every human at a formidable distance and remain nervously pacing at the rear part of …

    Blog entry of the 21.09.2008   
  • Wolf Cultures

    Aragorn, the dark wolf

    Kurt Kotrschal, 23.08.2008

    A spectacular example of different lifestyles in the same species is provided by Orcas. Costal groups are sedentary, very “vocal” and hunt fish; pelagic Orcas hunt down marine mammals up to the size of sperm …

    Blog entry of the 23.08.2008   
  • Human-dog: a model for wolf relationships?

    Male dogs with male or female owners are significantly different along dog personality axis 3

    Kurt Kotrschal, 04.07.2008

    Human-dog relationshipsWe (Kurt Kotrschal, Barbara Bauer, Iris Schöberl and Manuela Wedl) just completed an IEMT Austria funded pilot study on the nature of the human-dog relationships at the University of Vienna. …

    Blog entry of the 04.07.2008   
  • Visit of Wolfgang Schleidt and Dorothy Gracey on 29.05.2008

    Pencil drawing depicting the world of 1-month-old wolf pups.

    Wolfgang Schleidt and Dorothy Gracey, 13.06.2008

    We were eager to meet the wolf pups, both having long been interested in wolves as intelligent, socially cooperative animals and as the ancestor of the dog. WS has proposed* that dog domestication may in fact have begun …

    Blog entry of the 13.06.2008   

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