Wolves and human social structure?

Question

What are some similarities and differences between wolves and human social structure? Are there any???

Answer 1

there are many similarites

for instance in a pack of wolves there is always an alpha male & female if there isnt the pack will surely not survive same with humans there is a natural instinct to lead and be the alpha

Answer 2

Sure in a lot of human groups you will find an alpha male

the strong eat first and the weak are picked upon

and when pups are orphaned they are adopted and treated well by the pack

oops that last one only applied to the wolves

Answer 3

There must be a few. For example:

Just like early (and perhaps modern?) humans did wolves live in packs and use this to their advantage - hunting, protection, mating, etc.

Wolves have a pack leader, just like humans have a leader. Female wolves are treated as lesser members of their packs, just like humans (did?)

Just like humans, wolves ban members of their packs who do not fit in, sometimes even killing them.

Depending on the temperature and the season, some wolves prefer to wonder arround alone. This is unlike human social behaviour

Thats all that comes to mind right now.

Answer 4

There are some notable similarities between wolf and human social structures. Both live in family groups which work together to hunt (at least in the past we humans hunted co-operatively), raise young and defend territories. Both usually mate for life - wolves more often than humans, though, it seems! Both show affection and loyalty to the other members of their group, and are protective of them, and both care for elderly or injured members of their group. The Native Americans admired wolves for their devotion to their families and their hunting prowess, and referred to them as 'the teachers', because they believed they showed humans how best to live in groups.

One difference between them is that there is a heirarchy in a wolf pack, with each wolf having a rank, whilst in a human family all members generally consider themselves equals. However, in larger human society we do have our leaders.

I R Sonajiso is incorrect in saying that female wolves are treated as lesser members of the pack - the pack is led by a dominant pair known as the alpha male and female, who are the only ones to breed. All other wolves in the pack, male or female, submit to them. Also, no wolves want to wander alone. Lone wolves are those who have left their packs in search of a mate of their own, and so will eventually join or start a new pack. Wolves are intensely social animals that need each other to survive - they prey upon animals up to ten times their own size, which means they must work co-operatively to bring them down. A lone wolf could never kill a moose, say, by itself - it must subsist on small prey, which it cannot do indefinately.

Answer 5

A wolf pack is similar to a family unit, often with the mother or father as the alpha female and male. Its when a stronger female or male arrives where that might change. Only the alphas can have cubs, where the rest of the pack help raise them.

Most of our societies mimic more of the lion pride than a pack of wolves.

Answer 6

yea they both breath WHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAA i got it right o yea i got 2 points

Answer 7

no

Answer 8

wolves travel in packs - people often go places in #'s

Answer 9

wolves are monogomous just like MOST humans