• ButteryMonkey@piefed.socialEnglish
    39·
    2 days ago

    Huskies average 60lbs which is a bit more than half my weight. I grew up with huskies so I’m familiar with their size, as medium/medium-large dogs. Based on this pic, I feel like a wolf would be like my size or up to 20% larger than I am.

    Did some searching. According to Wikipedia they aren’t a lot shorter than I am either. 4.5 foot from the ground, to my 5.2 foot. If you go nose to tail they beat me hands-down.

    Body mass ranges from 30-175 lbs, I fall squarely within those numbers at around 115 lbs.

    Therefore, this wolf likely actually is bigger than me in at least two metrics. I’m only taller from the floor if they stay on all fours, and that’s all I have going for me. I also don’t have giant predator teeth.

    I’m really glad we have civilization. I’d for sure be prey.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
    41·
    2 days ago

    Wolf is looking for the button to turn the toy wolf off, because they can’t stand the “AWOOOOOWOOOO-OH-OHHH” noise any more.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Tbf there are other subspecies of wolves than the gray wolf and those are often smaller than huskies.

    • Trex202@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      You think the forest is your ally? You merely adopted the forest. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see a city until I was already a grown wolf, and by then it was nothing to me but terrifying!

  • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    If wolves are so large, why are most dogs so much smaller and thise that are the same size have short life spans and many health complications?

      • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        No duh, i am more wondering why the larger ones are so fucked when the origin species isn’t.

        • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          10 hours ago

          To clarify on the other poster, separate instances of selective breeding. Dogs as a whole were bred for domesticity and smaller size than wolves over thousands of years. Then much more recently, people began selectively breeding them for extremely small/large qualities, deviating from the relatively stable genetic code under much more intense selection pressure. Resulting in dogs that are either much smaller or much larger than the ‘normal’ dog having health problems. Big dogs today didn’t go in a straight line from being wolf-size to big dog size. They went from wolf size to normal dog size over a long time period, and then went from normal dog size to ‘big’ dog size over a much smaller time period which is where the problems arise.

        • crapwittyname@feddit.ukEnglish
          7·
          1 day ago

          Oh. It’s because of selective breeding.
          In general, aggressive selective breeding involves pulling from a smaller gene pool, which results in congenital problems. Wolves breed naturally, so evolution ensures they can survive well.
          It’s basically the same reason we don’t have incest babies. More or less.

    • Ajen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      An untrained 10lbs chihuahua is less dangerous than an untrained 120lbs Rottweiler. Some domestic dog breeds are bigger than any wolf, like the mastiff.