Talk:Pack (canine)
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- Pack (canine) was created this evening as an incomprehensible sub-stub. I added the Social behavior section from Wolf in there to fill it out, but it obviously needs to have its own content. About 10 pages link to Pack (canine), so I think it's worth the effort. Fernando Rizo T/C 06:36, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] This may be too vast a topic
The article is titled pack (canine) but only seems to be about gray wolves, with an attempt to describe dog behaviour as parallel to gray wolf behaviour. What about the behaviour of the rest of the canines?
The coyote (Canis latrans) and the Simien wolf (Canis simensis) and the gray wolf (Canis lupus) are closely related canids; what about the pack behaviour (if any) of the other two?
What about other wolves? Or foxes, dingoes, jackals, and lycaons? Is their pack behaviour identical to that of the gray wolf? All of the species?
What about habitat? Is the pack behaviour of gray wolves in different habitats the same? (It's not.)
Even if the gray wolf and the dog are genetically nearly identical, can the behaviour of the human-adapted, self-juvenilized domestic dog be compared to that of wild wolf?
But most of all -- where are the citations for the information that is there now? --Hafwyn (talk) 04:56, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Topic of this article...
Looking at where this links, the reason for this article as originally written seems not to be to discuss packs of canines but to discuss outmoded theories of wolf behaviour as applied to domestic dog/human interactions. I will add to the "alpha" section, along with the descriptions of packs of canines, and take out the uncited stuff about wolves.--Hafwyn (talk) 20:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
