Mature dogs look
like wolf pups, and humans look more like chimp infants than chimp adults, researchers noted at the meeting.
Not exact matches
Guarding dogs are chosen to demonstrate more of
pup -
like or adolescent behaviour of their wild ancestor — the
wolf.
Some studies show that
wolf pups were taken at an early age and nursed by humans and over generations became more «dog -
like.»
If, for example, one of the
pups accidentally bites the lip of his leader in his excitement to show his respect, the adult
wolf would wheel on the
pup in what looks
like a fearsome attack but stops short of any teeth touching flesh.
Acting
like the alpha or top
wolf continues to be necessary as the
pup ages too.
For most of human history, since we first started building little lean - to's, sticking some seeds in the ground and tossing a few meat scraps to the
wolf pup outside the fire light, CO2 levels have been at around those PI levels, and temperature have only fluctuated by small amounts apart from short term perturbations
like the Little Ice Age.