{"id":297857,"date":"2026-02-23T08:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/297857\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:36:12","slug":"watch-hilarious-bbc-footage-of-what-happens-when-dad-wolf-disapproves-of-his-daughters-choice-but-she-only-has-eyes-for-the-bad-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/297857\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch hilarious BBC footage of what happens when Dad Wolf disapproves of his daughter’s choice but she only has eyes for the \u2018bad boy\u2019…"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you\u2019re part of a wolf<\/a> pack, there are rules to follow. Many alpha wolf<\/a> couples will actively discourage last year\u2019s offspring from mating to avoid more mouths to feed, but in this film a young female pup has other ideas.<\/p>\n

As her parents are busy hunting for bison her head is turned by a lone male wolf<\/a>, who is following behind the pack. He has no territory of his own, but waits for opportunities and scavenges when he can.<\/p>\n

The lone wolf wants to mate, but needs to avoid being caught by the alpha wolves, as he could then be killed by the pack leader.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s in luck – the alpha couple\u2019s daughter wolf sneaks off to meet with him. The only problem is, when wolves mate they lock together<\/a> for half an hour to ensure fertilisation. The phenomenon is known as a \u2018tie\u2019 and can be seen with many other canine<\/a> species. And it\u2019s not helpful when you\u2019re trying to be on the down-low.<\/p>\n

Their connection is broken up by the arrival of the alpha male, who makes the lone wolf panic and pull the female around, before being separated and then chased away.<\/p>\n

Top image: a side view of a gray wolf on snowy ground. Credit: Ibrahim Suha Derbent via Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you\u2019re part of a wolf pack, there are rules to follow. Many alpha wolf couples will actively…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-297857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}