For tens of thousands of years, wolves have been sneaking around the human camp to feed. Humans saw his behavior and thus fed him until he became friendly with humans. And he became the first “domestic dog”, other wolves followed. Humans began to breed them together and select the “youngest” youngest, then thousands and tens of thousands of generations passed . The wolf’s face started to change. Eyes rolled up, ears down, tail curled up, or simply put, he was the “house dog” we know.

This is the “myth” of the domestic dog’s origin . That evolutionary biologists have been telling each other

But is this true?

In fact, there are few studies that contradict this idea. For example, a research study of a wolf pack compared to a pack of street dogs. Before it was already discovered, wolves are less aggressive within groups than street dogs. Not to mention, wolves tend to be helpful all the time, or simply put, less “selfish” than street dogs. 

If you look at it simply, street dogs are jealous of their food. It’s easy even to bite a menacing dining companion. While wolves in packs methodically share food.  There will be no fighting for food .

This is evidence that wolves in nature are not as aggressive as we imagine, reinforced by myths and popular culture. It was found that most of the wolves that attack humans are rabid dogs. Or if attacked without rabies poisoning almost the only reason for the attack was really hunger.

In general, natural wolves do not interfere with humans because they “fear” humans as much as any other wild animal. But street dogs if we get into the area of ​​course, it’s easy to get overwhelmed.

99.5 the wolf

This may not be obvious enough since wolves are less aggressive than domestic dogs. Therefore, try raising wolves from a young age, to compare them to raising domestic dogs. He will be my home dog. It listens to human commands and does not bite, which if more “aggressive” in terms of “babysitter’s bite” is slightly more aggressive, without statistical significance.

And that’s interesting. Means the ability to “take orders from humans” has been around since wolves. And the house dog no longer “evolves” in terms of communicating with humans.

Now, in general , we can see that wolves are not so different from domestic dogs as we have always understood, that is, they are not “unfriendly with humans” as in the legend, due to a great deal of experience. (including wolf-patrons) willing to tell us about it. These wolves, if raised like a house dog, will be a house dog. Conversely, if “pet dogs” were not domesticated by humans like street dogs, they would be just as “unfriendly” as wolves in nature.

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So this is no different? He also has experimental results in practice, even if wolves and dogs can be trained as well. But what really differs is the “reaction” when pushed by humans. Because while the home dog is often threatened. But the wolves will flee from that area.

Simply put, the domestic dog is not “afraid” of humans and is always willing to challenge humans, while the wolf, as a wild animal, still has a “fear” of humans.

All this leads to a new theory, or, in fact, what happens in the process of evolution is not reductive. It was the reduction of “fear” of humans that made the dog the house dog we know today.

Or simply put, the domestic dog is not “wolves that are not fierce,” as I understand it. But they are just wolves that are not afraid of humans