Extremely cool story, bro.

I wish he'd gone into more detail about how he started this. Did he just plop himself down by a den one day and tell them, "Sup wolves, I'm moving in?"

He's just become the hero of every guy with a mullet..

bobbette: I wish he'd gone into more detail about how he started this. Did he just plop himself down by a den one day and tell them, "Sup wolves, I'm moving in?"

You could always try the book.

The Man Who Lives with Wolves (new window)

This idiot is full of sh*t.

What an idiot.

Wolves are wolves. People are people. If you want to help them, LEAVE THEM ALONE.

Wolves don't eat fruit and berries

brantgoose: FTA: "I want to show people that wolves aren't savage and ruthless - they are balanced and trustworthy creatures that place their family above all else."

For my next stunt, I'm going to try spending a year with Republicans.

You will never hack it. It would mean getting a job and moving out of your parent's house.

public option: This idiot is full of sh*t.

You mean yourself, right? It was on National Geographic a few years back.

We domesticated a few of them and now it looks like they're domesticating a few of us.

Airfoilsguy: Wolves don't eat fruit and berries

No, but they do collect them for their bi-pedal pals so long as he watches the kids.

No Wheel of Time references yet? Fark, I am disappoint!

Article never says wolves ate or had anything to do with any fruit or berries.

Airfoilsguy: Wolves don't eat fruit and berries

Probably brought him brie and aged white burgundy as well.

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David Byrne disagrees with YOU!

His story is like the domestication of dogs in reverse. They basically domesticated him into a babysitter.

If you buy this story you shouldn't be allowed to own money ...

/DNRTFA

jayessell: Jim Parsons approves. (Mmmmm. Toasty!)

Oddly enough I was looking for an Alan Parson Project song that was somehow relevant to this thread....

KarmicDisaster: Big Effin Deal. Didn't Farley Mowat do that like, in the early 1960s? Eat what the wolves ate? I guess that he didn't do it for a whole year because he's not an idiot.

Mowat probably didn't do it for real. A lot of what he states the wolves did is pretty well refuted by actual research. Wikipedia summarizes.

brantgoose: FTA: "I want to show people that wolves aren't savage and ruthless - they are balanced and trustworthy creatures that place their family above all else."

For my next stunt, I'm going to try spending a year with Republicans.

Hilarious! 'Cause, Republicans are, like worse. And stuff. Worse than wolves. Or animals that you can't live with. Or something. Because I don't like them.

Republican.

Gordon R. Dickson would like a word...

This guy has a future as wolf scat

Lord Jubjub: oi_piss_me_off: I wonder if this is going to end like that grizzly bear guy?

That grizzly bear guy actually succeeded in living up close and personal with the bears of the area. He only found himself eaten because he didn't realize that approaching a strange bear that had migrated recently into the area (and as such was very hungry) was less than smart.

This guy had the presence of mind to realize when he had violated etiquette. It still could have gotten himself killed, though.

Wrong. He died because he brought a girlfriend up with him who started menstruating. The smell of her little visitor caused a reaction in at least one of the bears, triggering its survivor instincts, and the rest is history. Either way, you are an idiot if you try to live with dangerous wild animals.

I'm gonna call shenanigans, here. This guy left out a bunch of details:

#1 - He states he did this on a reservation, which is true. It's the "Wolf Education and Research Center", which is a fenced in reserve, not open wilderness.

#2 - The wolves are acclimated to humans, being partly raised by them as pups and fed over the fence. So, not surprising they'd be accepting of his presence.

#3 - That "raw deer and elk" is donated by hunters or by road kill, not hunted by the wolves themselves. Cleaned and checked for parasites.

#4 - At any time, he could leave the fenced area and go straight to the research center. I personally doubt he spent a full 365 days out in the Idaho wilderness.

I used to donate to the WERC, but there was a controversy back in the late 90s over a wolf that died under questionable circumstances, and the benefits of studying wolves so acclimated to human interaction.

Airfoilsguy: Wolves don't eat fruit and berries

Yes they do. In Europe they used to have a serious problem with wolves sneaking into the vineyards and eating the grapes. And coyotes love melons.

Not crying BS but did they really bring food back for him? We need witnesses.

/sounds like a tailor made ploy to get a show on Animal Planet

Lord Jubjub: oi_piss_me_off: I wonder if this is going to end like that grizzly bear guy?

That grizzly bear guy actually succeeded in living up close and personal with the bears of the area. He only found himself eaten

Wha What?? You call being eaten by bears successful? You better look up what the word successful means.

TravisBickle62: If you buy this story you shouldn't be allowed to own money ...

People who don't read the threads they post in shouldn't be on Fark.