Medicine of the Wolf Page #3

Seeing eye dogs, service animals,

even companionship.

Scientific studies have even proven

that people live longer that have dogs.

And the wolf is more intelligent,

has advanced senses, and a bigger brain.

We're similar to them,

they're not similar to us.

It's very interesting, because I mean,

we learn our initial programming,

a lot of it, we learn from them.

On average, a wolf walks for

about eight hours of every day,

and they can walk at quite a clip,

they can walk

at four to six Miles an hour,

and so if you wanna know what

it's like to be a wolf, walk.

And just keep walking, and walk and

walk and walk. Walk day after day.

This is a big, big part of what the life

of a wolf is all about, is walking.

It's the simplest thing.

And the next most important thing

is... is also something that's very,

very closely related to humans,

is just that wolves live in

families, they live in packs.

And a pack is basically a family unit,

and while wolves spend about eight

hours of every day walking,

they spend about eight hours of every

day socializing with their pack mates.

And so if you like living

in your family,

and if you like walking, you have a

great deal in common with wolves,

and the next most important

thing to know about wolves

is how it is that they get their food.

They eat things that are

generally bigger than them.

Sometimes up to 10 times their size.

And so wolves capture their

food, whether it's a moose,

or a deer, or an elk, they do it

by killing it with their teeth.

Imagine killing something that's 10

times your size with your teeth,

and that's the only way

you're gonna get to eat.

And so it's incredibly heroic,

it's incredibly dangerous

uh, to be able to get food in this way.

Um, wolf is capable of living

to about 12 years of age,

but their life expectancy

is about four years of age,

and one of the most common

causes of death is starvation,

the inability to get enough food,

and it's just because it's

really hard to kill something

that's 10 times your size

with your teeth.

I grew up in this hunting culture

where you defined

your worth, in some ways,

by how many pheasants you could shoot,

or how many ducks you could get,

and what kind of a trophy you could get.

The biggest buck

with the biggest antlers,

and if you could go shoot a wolf,

pfft, you're a real man.

One day I found myself heading north

with some friends

from Hardwick, Minnesota,

they were probably 10

years older than me,

they were going to go wolf hunting.

Okay, it's not the ultimate animal,

maybe it is back then.

There was a bounty on wolves.

A 50-dollar bounty.

What does that mean?

It means that, culturally, it was

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