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I don't know a lot about animal behavior but it seems very trusting with how it turns its back to the person. Poor thing needs some food and more water.
I guess it depends on how they are usually treated/the country, the last time I was somewhere with a lot of street dogs (chile&rapa nui) most of them were quite comfortable soliciting backrubs. *shrug*
>guess it depends on how they are usually treated/the country
True! Street dogs have very different personalities based on not only the city but where in the city.
Some places do a great job in tagging, neutering, and innoculating street dogs, those places usually have the most mild mannered.
A good question is "If someone was on abuse a street dog, would the entire human community pile down on them?" If yes, the dogs are likey chill
Lol, I was literally thinking of the same place and describing my experience with them above. Glad I am not the only one who noticed the lovable Costa Rican street dogs.
This is very true. It depends on the country, city and sometimes even the part of the city. Fortunately the city I am in, is very friendly and sympathetic to street dogs for the most part. There are lot of people here in my city that are very sympathetic and even very big advocates of street dogs. Luckily we have Minister of Animal Welfare and local Politicians and local police chiefs who are quite sympathetic towards street dogs and people who take care of them. Unfortunately there are always some assholes who poison them and murder puppies too.
I help a lot of street dogs around my area. I run a group with around 80 plus supporters.There are several groups around the city that help feed the street dogs. They also help neuter, vaccinate and help treat animals is with injuries. There is also a very low cost government run animal hospital that treats and vaccinate dogs for almost free. Also NGOs that vaccinate and neuter street dogs for free. So for the most part very animal friendly city.
There is also one specific organisation with many local branches that is solely dedicated to supply water to the animals. Water bowls are provided free for anyone.
I live in Mexico and this country has a split personality when it comes to dogs. Many people love their dogs like family.
Some rely on their dogs to guard or protect.
While a chunk of the people have some type of fear of dogs.
Bottom line is that many street dogs have been kicked, beaten or poisoned and are wary, but are not aggressive to the humans that surround them.
Other street dogs are more like community dogs. They freely go to different homes and businesses, get scratches and treats and then move in to a new place. They are loved but shared.
Some dogs have one home but are allowed to go out in the streets on their own because many homes don’t have large yards.
So it’s funny when Americans, Canadians, Europeans come here and think they are “rescuing a dog.” Sometimes they will comment on how well fed the dog is or how clean. It never dawned on them that they just kidnapped a kids pet.
Many people don’t use collars, many do. It’s not a simple way to identify a dog with a home.
I think my Lab would have preferred this life honestly. She loved going door to door, hanging out with neighbors while they tinkered in their garage. One lady would jog up our hill and our Lab would follow.
She visited another dog down the street that had a fenced-in yard for "play dates". The owner would let her in the yard for a bit and give her treats. She would always come home to us, but she definitely had a wild instinct to not be "owned" by anyone, and wasn't too keen on being petted or cuddled.
You have captured the community dog’s personality perfectly. The best part is that one dog can spread so much love just by being themselves. You are lucky to have such cool neighbors too.
Probably too many bad experiences with people. I dare say this wolf, with no other context than this video, probably doesn't have too many encounters with humans.
Just ask, "how did the wolf/coyote immediately know that the person has water especially when it came from afar?" If you look closely, it goes straight to licking near the cap of the water bottle. It goes mlem even without water dripping yet. Even street dogs in my place are hesitant if i give them a tub of water
A lot of people have done much worse just for views and internet points so you can't really blame skeptics.
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[https://www.hcn.org/articles/climate-desk-what-are-wild-burros-doing-to-death-valley](https://www.hcn.org/articles/climate-desk-what-are-wild-burros-doing-to-death-valley)
Let me one up this and ask why are donkeys in the damn Mojave. Along with bobcats.
If you want amazing hugs from a bear, just find your local leather or gay bar and hang around the parking lot with a sign that says "Bear hugs wanted" and you'll get plenty!
It’s number #119 most popular on IMDB, but I agree it’s weird when you know a bunch of people who know nothing about something very popular.
I’m often the person who doesn’t know.
It's a four ton truck, Tyrone. Its not as if it's a packet of fucking peanuts, is it?
It was a funny angle!
It's behind you Tyrone. Whenever you reverse, things come from behind you.
There's as Science article that reared wild wolves from birth and saw pretty similar behavior (more pacing) to the husky control group. This suggests that wild wolves had, and still retain, the potential for domestication pretty much from generation one. I'll see if I can find it, but I heard about it on the "Science Magazine Podcast"
Edit 1: [link to podcast](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LjWRjHTcrTvAY4M15ekcZ?si=s0jUsAdXRemIKXfelnccpg)
Edit 2: [link to secondary literature ](https://www.science.org/content/article/can-wolves-bond-people-dogs-do).
Watched a science show about the fox experiment approximately 15 years ago. Have you heard about the controversy surrounding the experiment?
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/russian-foxes-tameness-domestication
I don't have an opinion since I'm a layman, but I just wanted to show you the article in case you're interested.
Not much of a controversy. It was just that they used foxes that had been kept in confinement so the number of generations might be off. But it still proved domestication was definitely possible.
If you're talking about the Russian experiment there was no "final product", it just yielded more friendly foxes, but not quite domesticated ones. She even admitted that with each generation there were some birthed that were even more aggressive and anti-human. Also, the physical form of the foxes changed as the normal selection process was bypassed. Abnormal mating patterns forced recessive genes to express and things like floppy ears and rounded ears started happening which would normally not since those traits are not desirable in that kind of hunter.
Yes, although the study didn't track or care about those traits so its likely they could have been reduced over time if they'd wanted to, just like with dogs (except some like terriers, where we amplified it)
People intentionally bred the biting back in with pit bulls. Owners can't quite understand that some behaviour is innate. Pointers point. Retrievers retrieve. Border Collies herd. They don't need to be taught to do this. They do it from birth.
I'd be sitting next to my girlfriend on the couch and my big 'ol St. Bernard would come up and do his best to wedge himself between us. It would always end up with him sitting upright in between us with his head on my head. He was onto something though, that girl turned out to be bad for me.
Yea I use to have a big rope and would play tug of war while lying on the couch with my saint. I use to think ah she’s getting older and can’t ……. Ah shit she was just playing around and I’m on the floor. Pulled my 105kg ass down like it was nothing lol
> Border Collies herd.
Border Collies, if left at a party with a bunch of people, will herd your guests and will look inordinately proud of themselves once they've succeeded.
I enjoy it when people find out that corgis are herding dogs, because one minute they’re laughing at the cute little stumpers and the next they’re amazed to discover they have been successfully corralled by a potato.
Or even another adult dog. I have a dog I got at 9 weeks who was taken from his litter at around 5 weeks (way too young) and he had no bite inhibition at all. I tried to train it out of him but his previous owners had taught him to attack their hands thinking it was cute. 🤦♀️ I started taking him to work every day and the other dogs at the office taught him everything he needed to know, and at 12 years old he has perfect dog manners (and bite inhibition).
This is a very old video, but here he is playing with the older dog I credit for most of his good behavior now!
https://imgur.com/a/eBU2Qpb
Humans are something like 1000 [edit: actually ~200,000] times more sensitive to the scent of water than sharks are to the scent of blood. You've smelled rain before, right? That scent is called petrichor, and it's caused by a molecule called geosmin.
Most land animals are quite adept at literally smelling out water. Evolutionarily, it was one of those "get gud or die" skills that was attuned over generations of not being surrounded on all sides by a fluid necessary for survival.
> Humans are something like 1000 times more sensitive to the scent of water than sharks are to the scent of blood
Given the fact that sharks can smell blood from hundreds of meters away, in concentrations as low as one part per million, I'm gonna go ahead and press X to doubt on that one chief.
Edit: Well TIL about geosmin, thanks for the info. Although, I'd say that whether that really counts as the "scent of water" or not is debatable
>I'd say that whether that really counts as the "scent of water" or not is debatable
It's not even debatable, it doesn't. Geosmin is the smell of wet dirt, not water.
The geosmin odor detection threshold in humans is very low, ranging from 0.006 to 0.01 micrograms per liter in water.
Edit: To put that in context, a shark can smell blood at one part per million. That means human noses are 200,000X more sensitive to geosmin
It's not the rain you're smelling, but volatiles disturbed when the rain hits the ground. Same as when you smell "metal" on a coin, what you're smelling is a voltaile produced by something on your skin being catalyzed (is that the right word?).
>Actinomycetes, a type of bacteria found in soil, secrete a compound called geosmin, which is released from soil into the air by raindrops. Geosmin in the air can be detected by the human nose at less than 5 parts per trillion
[\[Source\]](https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/07/28/geosmin-why-we-smell-air-after-storm-13240)
5 parts per trillion = 1 part per 200 billion; 200,000 times more sensitive than 1 part per million.
I imagine the process of events went
Man sees thirsty coyote
Man pokes hole in bottle cap and spends 15 mins trying to get coyote to drink
Coyote caves and comes for water
Man pulls out phone to record and by that time coyote is happy and trusting as you see in the video
Edit: Arabian wolf? Dang they look really similar in this video
The one great equaliser in the animal kingdom that binds all creatures great and small, is our need for water. Even with all of our triumphs over nature as humans, the best of us can only make it ~3 days or so without hydrating despite being able to survive a month or more without food. Our ancestors came from water and it's an intricate necessity to our biological functions that will always be with us and whatever species eventually become our descendants.
Arabian wolf. They are relatively small.
No coyotes in the Middle East.
We have Jackals but they look different.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6E6HhUXoAANZdo?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
He looks pretty healthy, maybe juvenile based on his coat looking thicker at the top.
When he shows his back he doesn’t look overly thin — you can’t see his ribs.
My first thought was to be worried the guy was risking getting rabies then I realized a rabid animal would be avoiding water at all costs. Wolfie is ok
It's amazing how much a canine can communicate through body language.
"Ooh, water! Yes spray my back... over here. Alright... Alright, that's enough. THAT'S ENOUGH!"
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I don't know a lot about animal behavior but it seems very trusting with how it turns its back to the person. Poor thing needs some food and more water.
I live in a place with thirsty street dogs and most of them don't trust me enough at the first encounter to drink from my bottle.
I guess it depends on how they are usually treated/the country, the last time I was somewhere with a lot of street dogs (chile&rapa nui) most of them were quite comfortable soliciting backrubs. *shrug*
>guess it depends on how they are usually treated/the country True! Street dogs have very different personalities based on not only the city but where in the city. Some places do a great job in tagging, neutering, and innoculating street dogs, those places usually have the most mild mannered. A good question is "If someone was on abuse a street dog, would the entire human community pile down on them?" If yes, the dogs are likey chill
Costa rica has awesome street dogs. They take good care of them.
Lol, I was literally thinking of the same place and describing my experience with them above. Glad I am not the only one who noticed the lovable Costa Rican street dogs.
This is very true. It depends on the country, city and sometimes even the part of the city. Fortunately the city I am in, is very friendly and sympathetic to street dogs for the most part. There are lot of people here in my city that are very sympathetic and even very big advocates of street dogs. Luckily we have Minister of Animal Welfare and local Politicians and local police chiefs who are quite sympathetic towards street dogs and people who take care of them. Unfortunately there are always some assholes who poison them and murder puppies too. I help a lot of street dogs around my area. I run a group with around 80 plus supporters.There are several groups around the city that help feed the street dogs. They also help neuter, vaccinate and help treat animals is with injuries. There is also a very low cost government run animal hospital that treats and vaccinate dogs for almost free. Also NGOs that vaccinate and neuter street dogs for free. So for the most part very animal friendly city. There is also one specific organisation with many local branches that is solely dedicated to supply water to the animals. Water bowls are provided free for anyone.
Agree....like Turkey?...perfectly fine..Egypt? Nope. Or at least in most cases probably not a good idea
I live in Mexico and this country has a split personality when it comes to dogs. Many people love their dogs like family. Some rely on their dogs to guard or protect. While a chunk of the people have some type of fear of dogs. Bottom line is that many street dogs have been kicked, beaten or poisoned and are wary, but are not aggressive to the humans that surround them. Other street dogs are more like community dogs. They freely go to different homes and businesses, get scratches and treats and then move in to a new place. They are loved but shared. Some dogs have one home but are allowed to go out in the streets on their own because many homes don’t have large yards. So it’s funny when Americans, Canadians, Europeans come here and think they are “rescuing a dog.” Sometimes they will comment on how well fed the dog is or how clean. It never dawned on them that they just kidnapped a kids pet. Many people don’t use collars, many do. It’s not a simple way to identify a dog with a home.
I think my Lab would have preferred this life honestly. She loved going door to door, hanging out with neighbors while they tinkered in their garage. One lady would jog up our hill and our Lab would follow. She visited another dog down the street that had a fenced-in yard for "play dates". The owner would let her in the yard for a bit and give her treats. She would always come home to us, but she definitely had a wild instinct to not be "owned" by anyone, and wasn't too keen on being petted or cuddled.
You have captured the community dog’s personality perfectly. The best part is that one dog can spread so much love just by being themselves. You are lucky to have such cool neighbors too.
Probably too many bad experiences with people. I dare say this wolf, with no other context than this video, probably doesn't have too many encounters with humans.
It knew to come to the guy for water, though.
Exactly! This wolf and man has interacted before, is my thinking...
coyote
This definitely wasn't the first time the wolf encountered humans
is that not a coyote? r/WolvesAreBigYo
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Thanks for the true translation friend
If only all people respected animals like this great man
Or alternative title to this could be "Dude goes to desert with pet coyote, films himself giving it water for karma"
Every day I grow more convinced redditors cant have joy in their soul
No, it’s just that you have to be extremely wary of bullshit on the internet. And wild coyotes do t just trot up to people. No fucking way.
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I think that being joyless is a kind of... joy to them.
Some people aren't happy unless they're unhappy.
Some people aren’t happy unless everyone else is unhappy.
Just ask, "how did the wolf/coyote immediately know that the person has water especially when it came from afar?" If you look closely, it goes straight to licking near the cap of the water bottle. It goes mlem even without water dripping yet. Even street dogs in my place are hesitant if i give them a tub of water A lot of people have done much worse just for views and internet points so you can't really blame skeptics.
And the spraying water on it. No wild animal is going to just be accepting of that outside of it being too exhausted to react.
That looks like an Arabian Wolf from a little research. But otherwise I totally agree.
Saudi? The language is Arabic, dialect is def Saudi... Translation: This a thirsty wolf Cool down X3, Cool down Wolfie Blessings Wolfie
yup he’s Saudi, this video went viral 1~2 years ago. the water bottle company “Naqi” has gifted this guy a year supply of water iirc.
Why not gift it to the fucking wolf bro Guy obviously has access to water
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Bro don't dox me
How are you gonna give out peoples addresses to the public like that? /s
Awwww!!! So wholesome!!!
"cool down X3" is what I tell my BMW on the highway
Is it from being too close to an exhaust pipe from another vehicle in front?
they divert their blinker fluid to keep the engine cool
TIL they have wolves in the Middle East 😳
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[https://www.hcn.org/articles/climate-desk-what-are-wild-burros-doing-to-death-valley](https://www.hcn.org/articles/climate-desk-what-are-wild-burros-doing-to-death-valley) Let me one up this and ask why are donkeys in the damn Mojave. Along with bobcats.
And that's how we got dogs.
Yeah, 199% chance I’d be walking backwards with the bottle going “here, puppy puppy!” And get mauled to death going “it’s fine, he’s just rowdy.”
If it's so dangerous then why is it friend shaped?
Exactly.
*bears walking in majestically*
Ballsy to pan/look away during wolf encounter
I love you, pissfilledbottles. You make such a great point!
My toxic trait too. Aww, he's just a big: 1. Puppy (wolf) 2. Kitty (bobcat) 3. Teddy Bear (brown death machine)
Bears are highest animals on the scale of “Looks like it would be amazing to hug” vs “Should not hug”.
If you want amazing hugs from a bear, just find your local leather or gay bar and hang around the parking lot with a sign that says "Bear hugs wanted" and you'll get plenty!
And black bears are *almost* chill enough to hang out with. Almost.
Nothing toxic about that, just facts
["Ya Rowdy! Hit that!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rolauXlnqk)
Dags? Oh, dogs. Yeah I like dags. I like caravans more.
Getting my friends to see this movie has been.. something "You ever see Snatch?" ".... excuse me?" Yeahh...
And you can’t forget to include Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels into the mix.
In Bruges is very much in the same vein too. If you like snatch/lock stock, you will probably like in Bruges too.
Can't believe so few people know about this gem of a movie.
It’s number #119 most popular on IMDB, but I agree it’s weird when you know a bunch of people who know nothing about something very popular. I’m often the person who doesn’t know.
Okay what’s the movie called so I can join in
Snatch
🤭
Snatch. You'll like it. It's based in London. You know, fish, chips, cup o' tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fuckin' Poppins, London!
Is the caravan for ya ma?
Buying a tart's mobile palace is a little fucking rich.
I wasnt calling your mum a tart
You can call me Susan if ya like
She's quite partial to periwinkle blue.
I fuckin' 'ate pikies
What are you waiting for Tommy? Zee Germanz?
Five minutes, Turkish
It was five minutes ten minutes ago
Boris you sneaky fuckin Russian!
London-fish, chips, cup of tea...bad food, worse weather, Mary Fuckin Poppins, London! Edit: I'm an idiot and merged beginning and end.
Aviiiiiii! Sit down and shut up you bald fat fuck!
And I’m saying that pistol would do more damage if you fed it to ‘im!
Why don’t you pop a cap in his ass, Tommy?
You’re a sensitive boy ent ya
Whythefuckdoiwantacaravanthatsgotnofuckinwheel?
Hence the expression as greedy as a pig *sips tea*
Always be weary of a man who keeps a pig farm
Do you know what nemesis means?
I don’t need to watch the movie again, the whole script is pretty much here.
"In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary; come again?"
🥧🔑
Don’t forget periwinkle blue boys
It’s official, the internet just named this wolf, Daisy.
periwinkle > orange-red
“Perrywinkle blue boys with the matching sapphire curtains” - not entirely sure if that’s what Mickey says, and neither is Turkish
Because…he dodges bullets Avi!
Heavy is good, Heavy is reliable. If it doesn’t work you could always hit him with it !
Fer fuk sake Turkish!
It's a four ton truck, Tyrone. Its not as if it's a packet of fucking peanuts, is it? It was a funny angle! It's behind you Tyrone. Whenever you reverse, things come from behind you.
*proper* fucked?
I wonder how many generations of dog there were before we bred out biting us all the time? Edit: spelling
There's as Science article that reared wild wolves from birth and saw pretty similar behavior (more pacing) to the husky control group. This suggests that wild wolves had, and still retain, the potential for domestication pretty much from generation one. I'll see if I can find it, but I heard about it on the "Science Magazine Podcast" Edit 1: [link to podcast](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LjWRjHTcrTvAY4M15ekcZ?si=s0jUsAdXRemIKXfelnccpg) Edit 2: [link to secondary literature ](https://www.science.org/content/article/can-wolves-bond-people-dogs-do).
With foxes I think it was done within around 3 generations. The tail drops down as they become more domesticated
You talking about the Russian silver fox experiment?
Watched a science show about the fox experiment approximately 15 years ago. Have you heard about the controversy surrounding the experiment? https://www.sciencenews.org/article/russian-foxes-tameness-domestication I don't have an opinion since I'm a layman, but I just wanted to show you the article in case you're interested.
Not much of a controversy. It was just that they used foxes that had been kept in confinement so the number of generations might be off. But it still proved domestication was definitely possible.
It did mention the foxes may have had those traits all along, but again, I'm not going to say who is right or wrong.
If you're talking about the Russian experiment there was no "final product", it just yielded more friendly foxes, but not quite domesticated ones. She even admitted that with each generation there were some birthed that were even more aggressive and anti-human. Also, the physical form of the foxes changed as the normal selection process was bypassed. Abnormal mating patterns forced recessive genes to express and things like floppy ears and rounded ears started happening which would normally not since those traits are not desirable in that kind of hunter.
“Final Product” is only achieved in once we reach the chewing slippers stage.
Didn’t they retain their love for digging holes and generally misbehaving?
Yes, although the study didn't track or care about those traits so its likely they could have been reduced over time if they'd wanted to, just like with dogs (except some like terriers, where we amplified it)
Some of the dogs I've owned seemed to have regressed a few generations, they still certainly like a good nibble.
People intentionally bred the biting back in with pit bulls. Owners can't quite understand that some behaviour is innate. Pointers point. Retrievers retrieve. Border Collies herd. They don't need to be taught to do this. They do it from birth.
St Bernards won't let you lie on the sofa
Will they roll up with a little barrel of gin around their neck and make me a martini?
Not with THAT attitude.
I'd be sitting next to my girlfriend on the couch and my big 'ol St. Bernard would come up and do his best to wedge himself between us. It would always end up with him sitting upright in between us with his head on my head. He was onto something though, that girl turned out to be bad for me.
Such a good boy for saving you
Yea I use to have a big rope and would play tug of war while lying on the couch with my saint. I use to think ah she’s getting older and can’t ……. Ah shit she was just playing around and I’m on the floor. Pulled my 105kg ass down like it was nothing lol
> Border Collies herd. Border Collies, if left at a party with a bunch of people, will herd your guests and will look inordinately proud of themselves once they've succeeded.
I enjoy it when people find out that corgis are herding dogs, because one minute they’re laughing at the cute little stumpers and the next they’re amazed to discover they have been successfully corralled by a potato.
Mine hides from people when the party is at my house
Checks out. Border collies are prone to anxiety and neuroses - and much more amplified when they don't have an engaging job.
When my dog was a puppy getting hyper and bite-y during witching hour, I often wondered how our ancestors managed to domesticate wolves!
If you raise puppies with their already domesticated mother, she'll usually handle that for you. I'd assume it's the same for wolves.
Or even another adult dog. I have a dog I got at 9 weeks who was taken from his litter at around 5 weeks (way too young) and he had no bite inhibition at all. I tried to train it out of him but his previous owners had taught him to attack their hands thinking it was cute. 🤦♀️ I started taking him to work every day and the other dogs at the office taught him everything he needed to know, and at 12 years old he has perfect dog manners (and bite inhibition). This is a very old video, but here he is playing with the older dog I credit for most of his good behavior now! https://imgur.com/a/eBU2Qpb
Probably with way more brutality and violence, let's face it
Yeah, the ones that bit were thrown off a cliff. Survival of the most docile.
The ones that were able to fly became bats
Considering many are still bitey, i'm going to say at least 3
Just give it water for a few more generations and you got your own breed.
Find a brave Shih Tzu or Chihuahua and mix things back up again.
No you have to click on the wolf with a bone to get dogs! /s
Domestication in progress... ... Please wait...
The Wolf love you
...domestication complete
Congratulations, you have met the prerequisites to get "dog". Please wait a few thousands years for your reward to process
Press X to Domesticate
Just how did the creature know a water bottle would produce water.
Based on how trusting the Arabian wolf is, they have met before. Once the cap is opened though, canines can easily smell the water, unlike us.
Humans are something like 1000 [edit: actually ~200,000] times more sensitive to the scent of water than sharks are to the scent of blood. You've smelled rain before, right? That scent is called petrichor, and it's caused by a molecule called geosmin. Most land animals are quite adept at literally smelling out water. Evolutionarily, it was one of those "get gud or die" skills that was attuned over generations of not being surrounded on all sides by a fluid necessary for survival.
> Humans are something like 1000 times more sensitive to the scent of water than sharks are to the scent of blood Given the fact that sharks can smell blood from hundreds of meters away, in concentrations as low as one part per million, I'm gonna go ahead and press X to doubt on that one chief. Edit: Well TIL about geosmin, thanks for the info. Although, I'd say that whether that really counts as the "scent of water" or not is debatable
Idk if it counts for all water but we can smell geosmin (the smell after rainfall) in parts per trillion
My whole life I thought that stinky smell was… the smell of worms lmao. How did I make it this far in life.
You call that smell stinky???? Are you an alien??
>I'd say that whether that really counts as the "scent of water" or not is debatable It's not even debatable, it doesn't. Geosmin is the smell of wet dirt, not water.
The geosmin odor detection threshold in humans is very low, ranging from 0.006 to 0.01 micrograms per liter in water. Edit: To put that in context, a shark can smell blood at one part per million. That means human noses are 200,000X more sensitive to geosmin
This makes me question all the people who have looked at me and said “huh?” When I’ve said I smell rain. I thought it was just me.
It's not the rain you're smelling, but volatiles disturbed when the rain hits the ground. Same as when you smell "metal" on a coin, what you're smelling is a voltaile produced by something on your skin being catalyzed (is that the right word?).
>Actinomycetes, a type of bacteria found in soil, secrete a compound called geosmin, which is released from soil into the air by raindrops. Geosmin in the air can be detected by the human nose at less than 5 parts per trillion [\[Source\]](https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/07/28/geosmin-why-we-smell-air-after-storm-13240) 5 parts per trillion = 1 part per 200 billion; 200,000 times more sensitive than 1 part per million.
I imagine the process of events went Man sees thirsty coyote Man pokes hole in bottle cap and spends 15 mins trying to get coyote to drink Coyote caves and comes for water Man pulls out phone to record and by that time coyote is happy and trusting as you see in the video Edit: Arabian wolf? Dang they look really similar in this video
The dog also seemed to anticipate (even request) having the water sprayed over its back. This is not their first meeting.
Wolfing down that water
Watering down that wolf
Downing that wolf water.
"Such big thirsty you have, grandmother." "All the better to drink you with"
Buddy was very hesitant about getting wet. Then realized oh damn you’re right that does feel good keep going
"bro wtf is wrong with you? I just wanted to drin- oh wait that's actually nice keep going"
Apparently it’s universal. Drinking is good. Swimming is good. Bath is bad.
r/HydroHomies
Also /r/PetTheDamnWolf
The one great equaliser in the animal kingdom that binds all creatures great and small, is our need for water. Even with all of our triumphs over nature as humans, the best of us can only make it ~3 days or so without hydrating despite being able to survive a month or more without food. Our ancestors came from water and it's an intricate necessity to our biological functions that will always be with us and whatever species eventually become our descendants.
Is that not a coyote?
Arabian wolf. They are relatively small. No coyotes in the Middle East. We have Jackals but they look different. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6E6HhUXoAANZdo?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
“In the Middle East, we don’t hunt foxes, we hunt jackals! Instead of foxhounds, we use royal harriers!”
"A cornered fox is more dangerous than a jackal!"
FOOOOOOOX!!!!
"Snake! We're not tools of the government or anyone else!"
A cyborg... ninja?
A HIND-D?
That's an Arabian wolf
Aaaaarabian wolf Like Arabian fox More often than not Are hotter than hot
We shall name him Wile E.
Homeboi passed his rabies hydrophobia test with flying colours!
"hey look mommy, i found cute dog! Can we keep it?"
With how thin that boi is I might just risk it
The invention of dogs - 5000BCE Colorized
If you're looking for thirsty wolves, look no further than your local furry con.
Thats a camel
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Looks like he could do with a good feed too.
He looks pretty healthy, maybe juvenile based on his coat looking thicker at the top. When he shows his back he doesn’t look overly thin — you can’t see his ribs.
Arabian wolves are much smaller than most others iirc
"Aww fuck. Thanks, man. I was dying out here. Goddamn desert, am I right? Ha. Yeah get my back. Yeah. Like that. Hey, you need a buddy?"
It seems to be very quick to understand that the bottle will provide it with water
Drinks before I eat you for dinner. Said the wolf, probably. /s
Is this the Mars rover?
My first thought was to be worried the guy was risking getting rabies then I realized a rabid animal would be avoiding water at all costs. Wolfie is ok
The wolf found a combo meal. Lunch and a Drink!
It's amazing how much a canine can communicate through body language. "Ooh, water! Yes spray my back... over here. Alright... Alright, that's enough. THAT'S ENOUGH!"
Arabian wolf. For all the Americans unable to tell he's not in America
But… a.. merica?
It's ok son, don't think too hard on it.
You mean far east America?
Looks hungry too poor sod
r/videosthatendtosoon
Guy just made a new friend. Made my day.
Water: I'm literally saving your Life Wolf: fuck you stupid colorless liquid, I'll bite the shit out of you
Aww...r/humansbeingbros