{"id":358916,"date":"2026-03-26T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/358916\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:45:10","slug":"wolves-eat-meat-why-evolution-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/358916\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves eat meat! \u2013 Why Evolution Is True"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve often criticized Colossal Biosciences<\/a> for their overblown science, which includes pretending that they\u2019ve resurrected the dire wolf<\/a> (Aenocyon dirus), when they\u2019ve only created grey wolves<\/a> (Canis lupus) with a few gene edits that make them white (real dire wolves probably were not white!) and a bit larger. Three of these edited wolves have been released at a secret location, and Colossal has pronounced them to be dire wolves even though they\u2019re they\u2019re not dire wolves. In fact Colossal has admitted they haven\u2019t \u201cde-extincted\u201d dire wolves<\/a>\u2014and yet they pretend otherwise. It\u2019s a squirrelly business, but they need to keep attracting and keeping donors.<\/p>\n

On tap: their promise to \u201cde-extinct\u201d the woolly mammoth, which will in fact not be a wooly mammoth but at best a hairy Asian elephant. And they say that they\u2019ll get a population of these creatures going on the tundra within eight or so years.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t bet on it!<\/p>\n

This morning I got an announcement that the three dire wolves in captivity have eaten an animal\u2014a dead deer! Surprise!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the announcement:<\/p>\n

Did you know most wolf hunts end in failure?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wolves look like perfect hunters, but in the wild they actually fail nearly 9 out of 10 hunts. So how do they ever get good at it? In our latest video, narrated by Colossal\u2019s Manager of Animal Husbandry Paige McNickle, we explore how wolves actually learn to hunt, and see the dire wolves Romulus and Remus face a messy milestone as they try to figure out how to skin, tear, crunch, and share a whole deer.<\/p>\n

Will the young dire wolves be successful? The answer might surprise you.<\/p>\n

When I said the whole thing was ridiculous, Matthew (another critic) responded, \u201cExactly. \u201cLook, Homer, they are just like our pet dog!\u201d
\nNote the videos showing a bunch of white \u201cdire wolves\u201d chasing buffalo. I don\u2019t think that can be real, as they made only three dire wolve, and they aren\u2019t penned in where the buffalos roam.Note as well that they are showing gray wolves, not dire wolves.\u00a0 And of course they\u2019ll eat a wolf carcass, for \u201cdire wolves\u201d are just tweaked gray wolves, and they are going to eat a deer carcass if they get it.\u00a0 This deer was (I hope) killed before presented to these mutants.The YouTube notes.<\/p>\n

Narrated by Paige McNickle, Colossal\u2019s Manager of Animal Husbandry, this episode also gives you a close look at the continuing development of our young dire wolves, Romulus and Remus. They\u2019ve already taken down small prey, and they\u2019re continuing to learn the essential behaviors of being wolves. To help them develop more skills, the dire wolves are given a whole deer carcass. This is an important milestone in their development, as they learn how to skin, tear, crunch, and share a full prey animal.<\/p>\n

This is undoubtedly meant to keep the public excited and, more important, keeping the donors satisfied and bringing more $$ in.\u00a0 But what is the purpose showing these gray wolves learning to be gray wolves? They\u2019ll never be released into the wild! I suppose you could say that this shows how gray wolves not born into a pack can learn various behaviors. But that has nothing to do with dire wolves.\u00a0 To me it\u2019s a big yawn in the service of Mammon.<\/p>\n

And where is the third \u201cdire wolf\u201d\u2014Khaleesi? Is she getting dog food somewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve often criticized Colossal Biosciences for their overblown science, which includes pretending that they\u2019ve resurrected the dire wolf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-358916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}