WISE WOLF, DUMB MEN

Source: La Estrella de Panamá.

By Wolfgang von Eschenbach, Gundhramn Hammer, Yudit E. Ruiz Sánchez & Blanca I. Ruiz Sánchez

August 27, 2017


Introduction

Wolves kill within. Men kill without.

There lies the big difference.

Gundhramn Hammer (2015)

Men hunted her down. Implacably. They brought her down. They cut the life of a precious creature. They killed her with no remorse.

When she fell dead to the ground, as if asking themselves when it would be their turn in the hands of this haughty two-legged creature, a primate that calls himself “man” and the owner of the planet with no right whatsoever, the trees around her tembled. 

It was the end of an era for her family group, for the hunters had not only killed a wolf but also an important cog in the wheel of wolf society. Her society.

Her accumulated knowledge and experience will be missed by her kind. Thereby endangering and putting at risk the survival of her family unit.

And who knows what important genes for the wolf family group were lost with her death.

Man hunts with no concern for animal genomes. Hunters tend to go after the best specimens, thus most likely affecting negatively the population dynamics and genetic structures of a particular species.

With her death, the ecosystem as a whole had also lost a priceless thread of its ancient life tapestry whose origin is lost in time.

Let us explore this world further. Such is the purpose of our article.


Wolf society and dumb men

Wolves are like humans in many respects. Wolves and humans are both top predators. Where wolves and humans live side by side, such as in Spain, conflict is expected.

Wolves can attack and kill livestock, which from the point of view of these predators are easier to hunt, thereby inflicting economic losses on man´s side.

Considering that no predators have any restraints, hungry wolves can sometimes kill too many a sheep in one night, for example.  

Most of the time this occurs indirectly, when the members of the flock panic in the presence of the wolves and try to escape from them; thereby dying of suffocation, falling in deep ravines or trampled over by other sheep. When this happens, wolves can assure human´s hatred.

Pastoralists have used dogs to protect their livestock through the ages. But wolves can sometimes kill dogs that guard flocks of sheep, droves of horses, rakes of colts, paces of asses, barrens of mules or herds of pigs, goats, cows and yaks.

This is why guard mastiffs must be protected with special neck collars and chest plates (Fig. 1).

Figure 1. Spanish mastiff wearing anti-wolf iron collar and chest plate. Source: Yo Soy Amig@ del Lobo.

Both species, wolf (Carnivora: Canidae: Canis lupus) and man (Primates: Hominidae: Homo sapiens), are highly social creatures. They both have families with complex social structures (Haber & Holleman, 2013; Zimen, 2003; Fernández-Gil et al., 2010).

Each individual in wolf society is different, with family ties and relationships, occupying its own place in a cascade of hierarchy, contributing and interacting with the rest of the family group.

Everybody is important in a wolf social group. When hunting, each adult individual plays its own role as a single unit and at the same time the entire family group behaves as a whole unit, thus beautifully flowing in the river of time and space, amazingly incorporated within the ecosystem where they have evolved through eons of time.

Thus, the she-wolf killed by the hunters knew her land to the last nook and cranny. Valuable knowledge needed to survive and live next to the most dangerous creature that has ever walked upon the face of the Earth: Man.

From a very early age, she had been taught by her mother, father and other relatives what she needed to learn to survive.

To her own life experiences, she had added what she already knew, every bit of what had come from her parents and what these in turn had acquired from theirs and so forth, in a succession of culture upon culture (i.e., “learnt behaviour”) back in time in a lineage older than man´s.

Yes, wolves are immersed in a sea of culture. An ancient culture that we have just began to understand.

But there is a big difference between wolves and humans.  

Wolves kill to survive. Whereas humans, unless they are still living in a hunting and gathering society, inhabit the frozen poles, want to hide undeclared (conscious) or incipient (subconscious) homosexual feelings by hunting or are addicted to adrenaline, or in extreme cases for survival reasons, generally speaking, kill chiefly for symbolic reasons (Cartmill, 1993). 

Also, the chase in humans can have its political tooth. For instance, hunting can be used as an excuse to gather top leaders and friends to discuss state issues at ease, before, during or after the killing spree (Fig. 2).

Figura 2. Hunting in El Rincón: Alfonso XIII, King of Spain (left), talking to the Spanish President of the Council of Ministers (right). A total of 1.270 wild animals were killed. Foto: Actualidades (1909).

 

Overall, if left alone in the wilderness, wolves are ecologically wise. 

Wolves are ecosystem engineers, i.e, they create habitats for other organisms (Video 1. En español, aquí), working for the natural ecosystem within which they live and in the long run they work towards the well-being of the Biosphere whereas mankind basically goes against the grain, working against Mother Nature as a whole.

Video 1. How wolves change rivers. Uploaded by Sustainable Human.

But remarkably, amidst this holocaust of Nature caused by man worldwide, human empathy never ceases to exist (Video 2).

Video 2. International Animal Rescue film shocking scenes of deforestation and starving orangutans. Uploaded by International Animal Rescue IAR.

However, all in all, despite their  sophistication, technological advancement and pride, humans basically function like dumb creatures, ecologically fucking stupid, otherwise they would not have turned planet Earth into a huge garbage dump (Video 3), a giant cesspool and put it in such a precarious state, negatively affecting its biodiverstiy, with many parts of the globe extremely contaminated, be it water, air or soil; with vast tracts of natural forests destroyed, the land parceled out, crisscrossed with roads, railways and highways and with abundant asphalted and concreted up areas.

Video 3. India´s massive landfill. Source: Caters TV.

Not even Earth´s high skies have escaped from man´s grasp, having filled them up with contrails and persistent contrails (chemtrails) (Video 4).

Video 4. Chemtrails: Why in the world are they spraying. Uploaded by Chemtrail Crimes.

And to make things worse, today humans are the main and only cause of a massive biodiversity collapse going on right now under their noses.

Certainly, the way man is going, he may soon finds himself alone, on a barren planet (Video 5), facing up his own extinction.

Video 5. Man in a nutshell. Uploaded by Steve Cutts.

So in a nutshell, what the hunters killed was sacred.

Behold her! Ecce a picture the wise wolf killed by men (Fig. 3). Biospherically speaking, dimwitted men, for they have yet to truly understand what they have done in the long run.

Figure 3. Wolf killed in Spain. Source: Yo Soy Amig@ del Lobo.

From the point of view of ecological intelligence, from the grand biospherical perspective, sometimes dense men can go beyond the limits of density. This is a good example of it.

Dumb because they have yet to realise that what they have killed for pleasure is not what they thought they have killed but what they thought they dreamed of having killed in a world where soon there will be nothing to kill.

Dense people who, thinking of themselves as masters of the universe, enjoy killing without, without apparent reason, not knowing that such killing without is in the end the equivalent of killing themselves within.

May she, the essence of this wise wolf killed by these abnoxious insapiens Homo sapiens, find her way to the stars and from up there somehow guide her family and tribe to a better future for her kind.

And may we learn from wolves. Wolves already are. They already are into being. Being within.

We humans have yet to find and enter such a realm, for we are now living in the Age of Having. We still are greedy children.

Humans are into having not to have to have what they need to have to live but to have whatever they can have but need not have to live, for they do not yet know when is enough to have just to be.

Having enough. Enough to step into being within.

Shedding our greed, like a snake sheds its old skin, growing up spiritually to enter within. To be within.

To be within into being. To feel, touch and become one with the totality, the total of Eternity whilst alive. To be within, before we are called back into the Earth´s energy ocean.

To be or not to be within is man´s biggest challenge!

References

Actualidades (1909). Durante la cacería en El Rincón. Madrid, Año II, 13 de enero de 1909, Nº 48: 1. 

Cartmill M. (1993). A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, USA. 331 p.

Fernández-Gil A., Alvares F., Vilá C. & Ordiz A. (Eds.) (2010). Los Lobos de la Península Ibérica: Propuesta para el Diagnóstico de sus Poblaciones. ASCEL (Asociación para la Conservación y Estudio del Lobo Ibérico), Palencia, España. 208 p.

Haber G. & Holleman M. (2013). Among Wolves: Gordon Haber´s Insights into Alaska´s Most Misunderstood Animal. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, AK, USA. 495 p.

Zimen E. (2003). Der Wolf: Verhalten, Ökologie und Mythos. Das Vermächtnis des bekannten Wolfsforschers. Kosmos (Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co), Stuttgart, Deutschland. 606 p.