{"id":12660,"date":"2015-06-18T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12660"},"modified":"2015-06-18T08:14:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T12:14:30","slug":"the-benefits-of-having-a-large-wolf-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-benefits-of-having-a-large-wolf-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits Of Having A Large Wolf Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/061815_1210_TheBenefits1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wolves, like humans, are social creatures. The Economist took a look at the benefits that being group oriented had for wolves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One would think that those who live in larger social groups are more prone to getting sick from one another.<\/li>\n<li>However studies of the wolves of Yellowstone indicated that the size of a pack didn&#8217;t affect the likelihood of getting a disease.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover those in a larger pack were more likely to survive getting a disease, possibly because other wolves could help hunt.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers also found that age matters. Having an older wolf aged six or more increased the likelihood that a pack would win a fight against a rival pack.<\/li>\n<li>The effect was large. If two equal sized packs went to war, the side that had an aged wolf would have a 150% greater chance of surviving.<\/li>\n<li>Since the average wolf lives four years, having a six year old veteran probably means that the older wolf has more tactical combat experience, shepherding its pack-mates to fight better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the wolves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21652259-wolves-yellowstone-provide-some-surprising-survival-lessons-pack-power?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21652259-wolves-yellowstone-provide-some-surprising-survival-lessons-pack-power?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolves, like humans, are social creatures. The Economist took a look at the benefits that being group oriented had for wolves: One would think that those who live in larger social groups are more prone to getting sick from one another. However studies of the wolves of Yellowstone indicated that the size of a pack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/061815_1210_TheBenefits1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12662,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions\/12662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}