You're why the big bad wolf can't have nice things!

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Comments

[firebird766]

Ooh, werewolf rp. Are they accepting new players?

More on topic, can't you respond in OOC conversations to their OOC conversations?

[doomweasel]

I would also like to know more about this RP.

[vodzie]

Thirding this. ( x

[star_eyed_kit]

Fourthing? Werewolf RP is indeed love.

[ianam1983]

Fifthing! Especially if you're doing realistic pack dynamics. I love that shit.

[blot]

Can I sixth this? If so, then Sixthing.

[dave_littler]

Seventhing, I guess. Is this Werewolf: The Apocalypse, or some other thing?

[westly_roanoke]

Eighthed...

Is that even a word?

[strawstallion]

Niiiiiiiiinth.

[zombieninjapony]

Total side track but didn't they find out that wolves DON'T have rank systems outside of zoos and their packs are just family groups with a mother, father and childen?

[westly_roanoke]

Got a source for that...?

[ianam1983]

No no, they're right. It has recently come to light that the widely-repeated model of wolf social behavior (alpha, omega, etc.) is in fact a grossly oversimplified model based on artificial packs raised in captivity. Wild packs tend to consist of a pair and their offspring and there is little need for dominance displays among them. Lower-ranking animals, mostly sexually maturing offspring, simply leave the pack if situations are not ideal - that's where lone wolves come from, and they generally pair off and start their own packs eventually

[yamikuronue]

Very useful information! Yeah, most of the behaviours that are going to matter to RP unless you're doing actual wolf-based RP, not magical intelligent wolves or anything like that, are going to be different from wild wolf behaviour. Humans generally don't get up and move to a different city because they don't like their boss, and they don't go live on their own in the woods - the animal part of human brains needs the social contact and approval of other humans, so when you mix that with the wolf brain you get a pack where you'd really rather work things out than go move to another city

[ianam1983]

Yes, and that can be time for asserting one's role. However, the old bullying-and-intimidating training tactics, which used to be widely justified on the basis of "this is how dogs think", are being cast in a new light.

[ianam1983]

(Sauce, btw: Mech, L. David (1999). "Alpha status, dominance, and division of labor in wolf packs". Canadian Journal of Zoology 77:1196-1203. The research is still new and controversial, but it does fill in a hell of a lot of the gaps in the traditional dominant-canid social theory.)

[westly_roanoke]

Awesome! Thanks!

I'm a bit of a behavoralist, and love to learn about this kind of thing. Just got through with a lot of behavioral stuff with corvids and hyena, so with this, I should turn my attention back to wolves!