@MelGibsonafter4Beers@kaia@grillchen I really want to pet a wolf and hang out with one for a bit. Maybe I should take the family to one of those wolf rescues.
@FourOh-LLC@grillchen@kaia@MelGibsonafter4Beers Yeah that's what I want to see, thanks! I don't make it to that part of the country too often lately, but I'll look into what next summer looks like for travel or another local option.
@FourOh-LLC@BowsacNoodle@grillchen@kaia "Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first." - Steve Irwin
I have a friend who drags me around for all sorts of these things, and she paid money to sit with the pack. Again, the pack had a handler, and told her to behave or the pack gets exited and becomes unpredictable.
Wolfs are highly social and hierarchical creatures, so they actually crave interaction. But they are not domesticated, which means they are not going to accept humans as part of their pack.
The wild wolfs are loaded with all sorts of bugs and disease-carry creatures, its "mother nature", in all her fucking genocidal glory.
@FourOh-LLC@BowsacNoodle@grillchen@kaia The beast only bares it's fangs at enemies, and Afrikaners are probably the toughest strain of White people on the planet.
@FourOh-LLC@BowsacNoodle@grillchen@kaia The domestication of dangerous wild animals by white people has roots that can be linked to the biblical descendant of the Leviathan (Tarrasque), the mythical dragon that Saint Martha Lazarus of Bethany brought to heel in the midst of its murderous rampage through what is now known as Tarascon.
Get domesticated, you gigantic fucking reptilian retard.
Imagine if a tiny glowing fairy wanted to "domesticate you" by 1. being really cute around you 2. offering you delicious food 3. inviting you to fuck up a bunch of her fairy enemies in glorious but unfair combat would you care that your voluntary cooperation was interpreted by the fairy herself as successful domestication of a giant beast?
This is a natural behavior, these creatures are vulnerable on land. They are an ambush predator.
Approach a number of Komodo dragons with nothing but a shovel and live to tell the tale. Those are land predators and don't mind biting rusting steel. They will also give you a race you cannot win.
@apropos@grillchen@kaia Racial ecology was unironically the bedrock upon which the conservationalist movement was built. Madison Grant is still considered by many to be the godfather of environmentalism and white nationalism.
Grant saved several species of Bison, wolves and Caribou from extinction.
@MelGibsonafter4Beers@kaia@grillchen Q: can we have more immigration? It won't raise house prices if we open up some of these federal lands. A: sorry, got mammoths all over those lands. And sabre-toothed tigers. And dinosaurs.
@kaia@grillchen > Absolute Unit of a dog and darling of game thrones Yuki is essentially a prehistoric direwolf, or at the very least a facsimile of one.
@kaia@grillchen I'm all for reviving extinct species of megafauna. Before the industrial revolution, North America had more indigenous species of fauna than the entirety of Africa.
@MelGibsonafter4Beers@Marakus@Rhodesian_YuKari@kaia@grillchen small development on the idea that the beast of gevaudan was a spotted hyena, the hyenas still got the winter coat gene, so would not be unlikely a hyena in france would grow the extra thick fur and look like a huge creature unknown to europe at the time.
@Marakus@MelGibsonafter4Beers@Rhodesian_YuKari@kaia@grillchen Fun enough no, the beast of gevaudan was a real living creature that was hunted down, killed and taxidermied, is just that the taxidermist did such a shoddy job that the thing rotted away
As for what it was, everyone agrees it was a large canid looking thing however there are 2 main theories:
Giant wolf, after examinig the taxidermied corpse, naturalist georges-louis lecrerc coumte de buffon, concluded the beast was an unusually large wolf, this would point to a wolf with giantism, altho we associate giantism as a human condition going as far back and recently in human history (from goliath to grutte pier and andre the giant) giantism is not exclusive to humans and is probably animals with such malleable genetics like wolfs can present the condition, this however assuming the taxidermist did succeed at preserving the creature's body and form (something we know he failed at).
The Hyena and the Sadist, the other theory is that some sadist french noble used his wealth and connections to import a spotted hyena and train it to attack on command and avoid hunters, which would explain the many desctiptions of the beast's fur and unusual behaviour when attacking and escaping expert wolf hunters for so long, the french are known for many things but love of their fellows is not one of them less alone when it comes to their nobility, knowing there was no lack of individuals like the infamous gilles de rais among french noblemen the idea that the beast of gevaudan was the work of a noble whom amused himself seeing the commonfolk turned to shreds by a an exotic african creature is not out of the question.
@Rhodesian_YuKari@kaia@grillchen Yuki fits the description of "La Bête du Gévaudan" a massive wolf / Tarrasque tier legendary cryptid that terrorized the French countryside from between 1764 and 1767.
At that time it was in vogue for the French nobility to import "exotic pets" such as Lions, Panthers and hybrid animals.