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Lupinicious — Appeasing the Alpha

Published: 2010-03-11 19:33:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 8913; Favourites: 315; Downloads: 24
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Description Here's something different - these are Wolf Park wolves.
I took this photo a couple of weeks ago during a two weeks stay at Wolf Park. I was on a trip through the USA where I visited a couple of friends and wolf institutions, along a route I've been taking pretty regularly since 1997.

It was my first time at the park in breeding season though. It was amazing... I took 5,500 pictures at Wolf Park alone. The wolves are more active during breeding season than the whole rest of the year together. Lost of dominance, submission and appeasing...

In this picture, Wotan (the beta male of the pack) is appeasing Wolfgang, the alpha, in a skewy way
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Comments: 23

bozones [2013-05-04 03:50:53 +0000 UTC]

I have used this stock as a reference :3 All ref credit will be given to you Thank you for posting all of these marvelous stock photos.

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Lupinicious In reply to bozones [2013-05-04 09:45:41 +0000 UTC]

Alright, thanks But please note that this is not stock photography...

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dragonfirerainfall [2011-11-05 14:41:04 +0000 UTC]

you make photos sooooooo funny! how do you catch them all?

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FicktionPhotography [2011-11-04 22:05:41 +0000 UTC]

Your work has been featured in my latest journal entry, found here: [link]

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runningfreely [2011-06-02 20:42:40 +0000 UTC]

That's beautiful! this photo shows well gerarcical rules that exists in a pack...well done! ;D

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Lupinicious In reply to runningfreely [2011-06-04 16:49:54 +0000 UTC]

Thank you
Gerarcical? I'm not familiar with that term. Or do you mean "hierarchical"?

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runningfreely In reply to Lupinicious [2011-06-05 09:40:16 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I mean that. Sorry, but I'm not English and in my language we say "gerarchico", so I confuse the two terms xD

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Rowena-Silver [2011-04-04 16:16:13 +0000 UTC]

He looks like he's looking for noms! Heehee

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RuinexX [2011-01-16 20:03:57 +0000 UTC]

Very beautiful!

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ll-Hidden-ll [2010-10-17 04:44:01 +0000 UTC]

LOL sad part is... youve been doing this since i was born O,o

March, 2nd 1997.... WoW

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Lupinicious In reply to ll-Hidden-ll [2010-10-17 17:49:37 +0000 UTC]

Yes, sad for me You still have all the fun ahead of you

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ll-Hidden-ll In reply to Lupinicious [2010-10-17 20:29:08 +0000 UTC]

lol true

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wolfanimater [2010-09-15 01:02:21 +0000 UTC]

cool lol im kinda speechless

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GrayMedicine [2010-07-18 15:11:38 +0000 UTC]

Wow. I love the way they are both showing so much body motions to speak with one another. I wish I could have seen them so close up! Wolves are my weakness..lol

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Philliwolf5 [2010-06-25 15:45:17 +0000 UTC]

I love the tail position. Wotan looks like he's on his way to giving Wolfgang his belly. Great work!

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SaintWolfOfEden [2010-04-13 11:28:26 +0000 UTC]

aww :3 these are monty sloan's wolves, right? I love them, they're awesome:> especially wolfgang and tristan.

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Lupinicious In reply to SaintWolfOfEden [2010-04-13 20:07:35 +0000 UTC]

Heh, they are not exactly Monty's wolves But yes, these are Wotan and Wolfgang from Wolf Park.

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SaintWolfOfEden In reply to Lupinicious [2010-04-13 21:43:05 +0000 UTC]

they're awesome btw great photos!

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amzimme [2010-04-10 02:40:51 +0000 UTC]

WOW, great shot! That's one-in-a-million, what a pose!

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Jayanty [2010-03-19 10:30:29 +0000 UTC]

I can't even begin to work out how he got himself in that position . And the other wolf does not look interested in the slightest . Great photo

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Larka-the-Wolf [2010-03-14 16:05:04 +0000 UTC]

This pic is awesome! Wotan's belly looks so warm and fuzzy.

Your trip sounds epic!

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TechRathgen [2010-03-12 05:58:02 +0000 UTC]

a lot of beautiful pictures.

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Lupinicious In reply to TechRathgen [2010-03-12 11:44:51 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much, you're too kind

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