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[wolveswolves]

hi! this blog is so cool, do you have anything with/about coastal wolves? thanks so much!

Hi, yes I love love LOVE coastal wolves!

Check out this tag, enjoy; https://wolveswolves.tumblr.com/tagged/coastal%20wolves

[wolveswolves]

Thank you for crediting the works you post. I follow the wolf tag and it's starting to get flooded (by that I mean more than usual) by not only unsourced theft and misinformed folks but also by very tricksy AI pieces so I really appreciate you!

Of course! As an artist and creator, I understand the importance of giving proper credit (thought really, you don't need to be a creator yourself to get that, just a decent human being 🙄)

And as someone running an informative blog, I take the responsibility of sharing accurate information seriously.

I've been away from Tumblr for a while, but just the other day I came across my first piece of AI-generated wolf content, and it was such a strange moment to realise, "Oh, even in this topic now".

Misinformation can have deadly consequences, wolves’ lives are literally at stake. The thought that AI could fuel even more misinformation about these endangered animals was quite an unsettling realisation.

Anyway, thank you for your kind message and thanks for sticking around, I appreciate you! 💖

[wolveswolves]

Hi! Thanks for your wonderful job, you have helped me a lot learning more about wolves, please, can you tell us more about wolves skeleton and anatomy? And any drawing tips you learned about wolves? Thank you very much!

Hi, these tags might be useful:

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Regarding drawing wolves, I think one of the most valuable advices is one that could be applied to anything, which is to actually lóók and then draw, instead of to assume and then draw. If that makes any sense?

Even when doing life drawing, we often subconsciously tend to think/assume "oh the ears are probably shaped something like thiiiiis" instead of actually looking and observing.

Look and observe and look and look and then look some more. Train your eyes to observe how things actually look. I don't know how to better explain it like this, but I hope it makes any sense, lol. Good luck!

[wolveswolves]

did you know that they (colossal biosciences, the same guys that made the woolly mouse) made dire wolves? also some more red wolves! :3

Thank you for writing me about this! ❤️ I have lots of questions and remarks about this, but I don't have the time right now to get into that, so for now I'll just share your message along with this video, so that people can look into this themselves!

EDIT: Read the comments on this message, helpful starting points! Thank you community 🙏

[wolveswolves]

Hi, I'm writing a book About wolves. I have been able to find great information about behaviors. It's regions and all sorts of stuff. But I just cannot find any information about how Wolf genetics work if you have any informatio (Such as: What the genes are called, How they work ect.) I'd love to hear it, In the meantime I'll keep doing my research and see what I can find.

Hmmm, I wouldn't know either. Have you checked the book "Wolves: Behavior, Ecology and Conservation" by Mech and Boitani? I don't have it here with me at the moment so I can't check, but it's an extremely elaborate book so you might want to check that out. Best of luck to you!

Also, I'll post this publicly so that if people do know something, they can comment on this post!

[wolveswolves]

i have a bit of an unusual question for you,

but first let me say thank you so much for your blog! i love wolves so much and learning even more about them is something i value very much!

onto my question, i see talk about rare “blue” coated grey wolves (apologies in advance for the taxidermy photos)

is this just elderly black colored wolves who have lost some of their pigment and greyed?

is it a coat only seen when wolves are molting?

what is this special and rare blue coat color??

Hello, what a nice message and question, thank you!

Just like humans, wolves their fur grays as they age. This is particularly noticeable in the development of a gray or silver mask on their faces, like you can clearly see on the two photos below.

Some wolves may have naturally had a silver or grayish coat colour or hue, making it a bit more challenging to tell if the colour is caused by ageing.

Photo by dfbphotos

Photo by Thomas Kennedy

There's some more photos in this tag:

EDIT: have a look at @eregyrn-falls's comments on this post, they're doing a much better job at explaining

[wolveswolves]

when I first saw your url I thought about the chant the werewolf guy from soul eater does to turn into a werewolf 😭 his werewolf form doesn’t even look close to a wolf

He chants "wolves wolves"? 😂 The reason my username is wolveswolves is because I suddenly had the inspiration to create a blog about wolves and I wanted it NOW and the username 'wolves' was already taken so in my enthousiasm/hurry the first thing I thought of was to just add another 'wolves' lol

[wolveswolves]

That wolf with the pink on its nose that you recently reblogged, could it be caused from scarring? Like the pink is healed skin from a recent injury?

Good morning! Yes it could be, but since the discolouration also appears on the skin around the eyes and on the lower lip, it's more likely to be a skin discolouration

(Referring to this post)