Is this a screenshot of Tumblr, that’s a screenshot of 4chan, that’s a screenshot of a news article?
What a future.
Take a lemmy screenshot and post it to Facebook
Memba when they marketed the web as this great big all-encompassing thing where you could find anything if you knew where and how to look? The modern web is like 6 sites chained together in a Content Centipede.
In a couple of years it will be almost exclusively ai content that's been trained on other ai content.
I'll be honest, I'm kinda hype to see the ragged edge of AI trained on AI trained on AI down a few dozen levels deep. The slow literal disintegration of data outputted by a system that has no concept of meaning, only pattern-matching, is gonna end up building entire cities in the uncanny calley
It will be horrible. This will be the only face you see in media...forever...
Five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four.
Welcome to the enshitification.
Just because you want to use our new favorite word doesn't mean it always applies
It's like the human centipede, if it was a complete circle.
I wonder, if you twist one of the people could you make a human Mobius strip?
The quality is surprisingly good, though. Usually they're blurred all to hell.
I'm happy they rescued the wolf from the icy river.
Let them towel you off, maybe get a snack. What's the worst that could happen?
Why fren shaped if not fren?
A wolf could have easily killed whoever was handling it. I guess it was just completely resigned to the situation.
The Estonian Union for the Protection of Animals (EUPA) said the wolf had low blood pressure when it arrived at the veterinarian's office, which may have explained its docile nature after the men carried it to their car to warm it up.
Wouldn’t the wolf understand they were trying to help?
Probably not, no. Wild wolves tend to have only negative interactions with humans and thus instinctively consider them a threat regardless of the specific situation..
Disney lied to me
You better sit down for this next part..
Remember The Lion King? Turns out lions can't sing and have no concept of monarchic rule!
Plx tell me that it was not a lie when every good girl/mermaid/bitch/toy. gets a rich handsome prince and has a happy ever after.
NAAANIII????? But but but... That's inconceivable!!
This is true. It's an established fact that lions adopted a unicameral parliamentary system as far back as 1643.
It's true that wolves are more intelligent than given credit for and that they're much more afraid of humans than vice versa, but you're not going to befriend a wolf and engage in physical interactions without months of preparation. They treat us as larger predators, and will struggle to avoid being eaten.
While wolves can cause fatal injuries, they rarely do. From 1952 to 2002, there were 8 deaths in Europe + Russia, and 3 in North America. Most wolf attacks occur in south Asia, due to rabies.
Link to the full article if you want to read the story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47330924
The Estonian Union for the Protection of Animals (EUPA) said the wolf had low blood pressure when it arrived at the veterinarian's office, which may have explained its docile nature after the men carried it to their car to warm it up.
Aww
"He was calm, slept on my legs. When I wanted to stretch them, he raised his head for a moment," he added.
Awwww
If there was some way to be absolutely sure it wouldn’t kill or seriously injure me I would definitely pet and/or play with a wolf.
Of course, with those caveats I could also say the same for bears, lions, tigers, cougars, panthers, …
I think keeping a bear, even a very well trained and "domesticated" one is cruel and horrible. I also think that Russians make it look super fun and awesome on youtube.
But eventually the bear is probably going to maul me and my last thought will be the Chris Rock quote on Siegfried and Roy... "That tiger didnt go crazy, THAT TIGER WENT TIGER!"
There is a guy in my area that runs a wolf refuge and therefore has a zoo license. Local police took possession of an illegally owned black bear cub and came to him because it was too domesticated to release and they couldn't find a zoo that would take it. He refused but then relented because the next option was euthanasia. Now his wolf sanctuary has a black bear that he raised by hand and does "wrestling" shows with. He and the bear pretend to wrestle in a bunch of different poses. The bear could snap him like a twig, but is clearly very affectionate towards him.
Oh nnnnooo it's like Bart, the bear who played every bear in a movie or TV show when I was a kid.
"That tiger didnt go crazy, THAT TIGER WENT TIGER!"
Lol my wife and I use this quote all the time, but it's so old that I don't think anyone ever understands it.
Ohh my.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I mean, I guess I kind of married a cougar, and I do try to pet and play with her every day. Different kind of cougar than I meant in the other comment, though.
My partner and I went to a nature preserve the other day and had the exact same thought about buffalo. Still furry and warm, still friend shaped even if it has forehead spears. What if your furry snuggle buddy was an entire alive couch?
Apparently, dropping them into ice water until their blood pressure drops could work. But it would be a cold wet cuddle, until it becomes a cozy warm deadly wrassle!
Find someone with a wolf-dog, preferably mid to high content, hang out with it for a bit
I owned a halfer (she-wolf and husky parents) and it was basically wolf default behaviours with begrudging love for his humans. Looked like a slightly (maybe 80% size) small wolf and had the body power and intelligence to match.
It's not exactly the same as being near a full wolf (which I have done) but it's the experience you're imagining for "friendly wolf", and quite awesome
They were lucky that wolf was so chill...
I saw the blanket and "ancestors warned me" and my initial first thought was FAR DARKER than domestication xD
That's gotta be a wolf coyote mix right? He's too small to be a full blown wolf
Article said it was estimated to only be about a year old by a local hunter; I’m going to assume that’s not full-grown for a wolf
I was going to say there are no coyotes in Europe but my quick research revealed the somewhat similar golden jackal is at least native to southern Europe. So it is possible, but I'm leaning towards it being an adolescent.
Jackal territory reaches to the south of Romania and Hungary which are still about 1450 km (900 miles) from Estonia. So unless some lonely canine went on a looong honeymoon I'd say that's rather unlikely.
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