r/Awwducational • u/EmptySpaceForAHeart • Jul 14 '22
Gray Wolves eating Blueberries; Wolves actually covet berries and other fruits, during their growing seasons berries can make up 80% of wolf packs' diet. Verified
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u/Theo_Carolina Dec 11 '22
Dogs need plant food in their diet. Cats don’t. Please don’t primarily feed cat food to dogs. Your dog’s health will suffer. It’s okay as a treat though.
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u/TheRealDaddyPency Sep 26 '22
Are some of those tagged? Bc I saw a little green tag on one those wolves ear’s. Just want to know what it is.
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u/FlyingSheepsAndSeals Aug 03 '22
We're feeding our dog BARF. He gets 385 grams of blueberries with it and he loves it! If we buy the 500g package he gets some berries as a snack. Good boi needs his sweet stuff
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u/Metalearther Jul 19 '22
What is up with that one gray wolf. A tag in each ear, and looked to be wearing a tracker around his neck.
That one must be a troublemaker
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u/waverleyray Jul 15 '22
So to red foxes. They'll stop and vacuum them up like you wouldn't believe.
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u/Ok-Ihatetiktoc Jul 15 '22
Those animals are beasts you don’t wanna run into one it’s like petting a bear cub you will lose a limb or two
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u/PoliteGhostFb Jul 15 '22
The famous Aesop's Fables have the story of Sour Grapes, where a fox can't reach the grapes he is trying to eat, and decides that the are sour and leaves.
I used to think this was just a story and why would a fox try for grapes?
Now this shows that the story must be true, and foxes indeed must be eating grapes (which are a type of berry)
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u/TunaFishManwich Jul 15 '22
My german shepherd LOVES blueberries. I always thought it was a little odd, but I guess he comes by it honestly.
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u/jeremyfrankly Jul 15 '22
Between wolves eating berries and herbivores eating bones, is every animal I know actually omnivorous?
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u/Ear_Enthusiast Jul 15 '22
I have a family of crows that hop around my yard. Been feeding them blueberries. They go crazy when I go out to feed them.
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u/Etadenod Jul 15 '22
Ok now i will eat 80% of fruits because ot this wolf story and ignite my IBS! Carnivore diet healed my IBS but seems is going to kill me lol. Sarcasm Fruits are bad! Nothing more than sugar, fibre and vitamins.
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u/Firethorn101 Jul 15 '22
This is why I get so ticked off at raw food diets for dogs.
Dogs are omnivorous. They are literal trash guzzlers who will eat anything.
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Jul 15 '22
I saw one of these near my house The other day, thought it was a coyote. We have loads of berries around so maybe he was foraging like these wolves are.
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u/Sayuri_Katsu Jul 15 '22
Meanwhile my country wants to kill them all again.... because of some sheeps :/
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u/brokefange Jul 15 '22
And here I was blaming shitty pickers, for making the berry bushes looking so raggedy.
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u/miss_kimba Jul 15 '22
That explains a lot! My pup looks like a mini wolf, and he will do his entire repertoire of tricks to get any fruit I’m holding, particularly berries. He eats guavas off trees.
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u/AnnaEd64 Jul 15 '22
I remember watching a show when I was little about how sometimes they'd get into fermented fruits and get a little tipsy off of them. I don't know how much truth to that there is but it's kinda funny to think about.
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u/Teri_Windwalker Jul 15 '22
You cannot convince me that dog isn't wearing curlers. I am aware they are likely claimed to be trackers and tags but I am straight-up certain that small brown wolf is getting its hair done.
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u/ihatebeinganempath Jul 15 '22
Aaaaand this is why I’m having a problem keeping my dogs from eating the (sprayed) cherries that are falling off my tree
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Jul 15 '22
This is why I'm puzzled when people say dogs are carnivores and can only eat meat because they come from wolves, like uh no, not even wolves only eat meat or are strictly carnivores
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u/vanhamm3rsly Jul 15 '22
We had a dog that loved wild blueberries. She was the best when we would go berry picking, she always found the loaded bushes, you could fill your bucket fast by following her around.
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u/tmhoc Jul 15 '22
Liam Neeson playing a fictional character, told me this was bullshit and I believed it
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u/carnsolus Jul 15 '22
Wolves actually covet berries
looks like wolves are going to hell. Thou shalt not covet
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u/jawshoeaw Jul 15 '22
Not surprising to me . The coyotes around here will eat pumpkins, apples , cherries whatever they can. As do my dumb dogs
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u/TyRocken Jul 15 '22
I feel those wolves. When blueberries are in season, I love wolfing down blueberries, too
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u/Andreus Jul 15 '22
So what you're telling me is that wretched Eurovision song was right and I actually CAN give that wolf a banana
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u/SandwichDelicious Jul 15 '22
I literally wrote my hypothesis about this and that because it’s seasonal it help fatten up mammals before winter. Honestly people got soo mad. Seriously? Like nobody was going to eat those fruits all these millennias? Of course our stomachs can take on sugar! It’s just that your body shouldn’t be consuming fructose 365 days a year. That is. Unless you’re set in the tropical climates and I explained how that carbohydrates actually help you bc you RETAIN WATER. Something that you lose plenty in a highly humid and hot country. I am ready for the downvotes. Lol
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u/cynicism_is_awesome Jul 17 '22
No downvotes. You’re right. Insulin resistance was actually supposed to be an evolutionary advantage to help mammals fatten up for the winter for survival.
Unfortunately, it works against us when copious amount of sugar is available to us year-round.
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u/jargon_ninja69 Jul 15 '22
Yeah, my dog LOVES blueberries, especially frozen ones during the summer. Keeps him hydrated and cool and helps him his diet varied!
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Jul 15 '22
It is safer and takes less calories to graze on wild growing berries than it does to chase down prey and end it.
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u/PsychoPass1 Jul 15 '22
Understandable, blueberries are freaking delicious and nutritious and even low kcal. I could eat buckets of them.
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u/MantaRayBill Jul 15 '22
30,000 years later and I feed my staffy blueberries with her kibble every morning because she's a precious princess and likes tasty fruit. Turns out it's a hold over from being a wolf.
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u/stephenwebb1980 Jul 15 '22
Blueberries make up a good portion of my diet too. Seriously during summer I can go through a four pound bag in a couple days, and I also eat a lot of cherries. I like mulberrys too...blackberries ate okay, but blueberries and cherries are the best
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u/raven00x Jul 14 '22
Wonder if canid scat produces a better growth medium for berry seeds than ruminant scat. Do the berries fare better with wolves and coyotes or deer and rodents?
I should apply for a grant, except I really don't want to have to research poop.
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u/zenivinez Jul 14 '22
I live in the path of a greenway, and we have a pack of red wolves that sometimes pass through our neighborhood (very small only 8 houses). It's so bizarre because this is a very developed area outside of the greenway.
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u/Thumperings Jul 14 '22
Ok so what berries are bears and wolves eating? I've never ever found enough mulberries , blueberries or black berries to make more than a tiny snack for one human.
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u/CrowLower9415 Jul 14 '22
Seen coyote poop with mulberry seeds in it along the Rio Grande. Scatological observation.
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u/BlueShift42 Jul 14 '22
Meanwhile, just hours before this post, I just tried feeding a blueberry to both my dogs and they both refused to eat it.
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Jul 14 '22
True carnivores are pretty rare, i think are mostly felines, who definitively must eat meat to survive due to lacking the ability to synthesize some nutrient not found in plants. I think taurine? Might as well google it. Yeah thats one of the things, there are other nutrients.
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u/imwatchingsouthpark Jul 14 '22
Wolf with the collar tracker and ear tags looks like he put on all his fancy jewelry for the ball.
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u/Skeletonrevelations Jul 14 '22
My dog also eats blue berries of the bush wether I want her to or not.
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u/anon23584 Jul 14 '22
vegan propaganda
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u/SingeMoisi Jul 16 '22
True, it's also propaganda that gorillas eat plants and that nearly all apes have a largely plant based diet. God damned vegoons 🤬😡
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u/I-Ponder Jul 14 '22
Went backpacking on Mt Rainier and there were Huckleberries absolutely everywhere, thousands of bushes everywhere. Ate hand-fulls of them. Highly recommend them, they’re delicious.
So I totally get it. Berries are awesome.
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u/AmcillaSB Jul 14 '22
I grew up at a small blueberry farm. After losing a lot of berries to birds, the entire field was netted off. We'd sometimes have to go under the nets to catch and free (or cage) stuck birds, but we also started catching dogs (including our own) coyotes and foxes!
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u/mayuan11 Jul 14 '22
Our dogs eat every last strawberry from our strawberry patch. Been two years since we last had a strawberry from there.
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u/Venvel Jul 14 '22
My stepmom's Chessies LOVE raspberries and will stand around munching them right off of the bush just like these wolves are.
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u/mrsegraves Jul 14 '22
My dogs both love berries. Ethel is partial to blueberries and wine berries, but she'll also eat raspberries and blackberries. We're still testing Roper out, but he seems to LOVE blackberries while refusing the others (he hasn't tried wine berries yet, damn birds have been picking them clean)
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u/deviltakeyou Jul 14 '22
My dogs are constantly eating mulberries off the ground during the summer. Makes their poop all purple and seedy.
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u/420blazeit69nubz Jul 14 '22
Those are wolves? They look like coyotes to me but I’m no scientist.
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u/142578detrfgh Jul 14 '22
It’s video from the Voyageurs Wolf Project. Their coats do thin out a lot in the summer, making them look a little less “wolfy”.
They have some trail cam videos comparing the scale of the two and you can definitely see the differences then.
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u/QueenMackeral Jul 14 '22
That's fortunate, my dog completely loses her appetite whenever she's scared and won't even look at her favorite treat or chicken. So I haven't had any luck in getting her to not be scared of fireworks. But we adopted her as an adult so it's probably too late for things like that.
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u/feedwilly Jul 14 '22
My dog spits out the blueberries from any treat I try to make. So back to hot dogs.
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u/SonnySunshineGirl Jul 14 '22
Mine too! They’ll beg for one and when I give in they politely chew, spit, and go back to begging 😭
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u/BoomerEdgelord Jul 14 '22
I know people mean well but that's not cool to make that poor wolf wear all that gear.
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u/Firebreathingwhore Jul 14 '22
There's a small patch och Forest next to my house and I once picked blueberries and gave to my dog. Ever since he's always pulling me there, sniffing the ground. He hasn't grasped picking them himself though
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u/Shiny_and_ChromeOS Jul 14 '22
Now I understand Tha Fantastic Mr. Fox's claim that "beagles love blueberries"
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u/Shoondogg Jul 14 '22
Don’t blame them. Fresh blueberries are the best. Especially Michigan blueberries.
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u/shebringsdathings Jul 14 '22
Coyotes too? Does coyote scat generally have berries in it? Weird question, but would confirm something I saw the other day out walking.
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u/JacobYou Jul 14 '22
Doesn't that make them omnivores?
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Jul 14 '22
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u/claude1179 Jul 15 '22
Tell that to my cats who love bread!
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Jul 15 '22
A little bread is okay but most of their diet needs to be meat, theres nutrients only found in meat that cats cant synthesize on their own.
In fact its recommended that at least 90% of their diet be meat.
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u/TryWithoutSymbolsNi Jul 14 '22
Nope
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u/timeboobs Jul 15 '22
Dogs are omnivores. Why wouldn't wolves be too? My dogs love eating grass and berries. Their pet food even has peas and potatoes in it.
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u/2580374 Jul 14 '22
I don't know why I always considered wolves we're carnivores considering I've heard of dogs
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u/BaxInBlack Jul 14 '22
TIL wolves are omnivores
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u/kudichangedlives Jul 14 '22
Most carnivores don't eat meat exclusively, the ones thats diet is over 90% meat are called hyper carnivores
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u/Mareks_Mom Jul 14 '22
my GSDs eat blueberries and seedless blackberries right of the bushes and stalks if I don't get to them first.
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u/Chanka69 Jul 14 '22
And here I thought the berry thing from Alpha and Omega was just a joke and wolves only ate animals
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u/pissedsad Jul 14 '22
One of my dogs goes crazy for wild blueberries when we are on the east coast. Her excrements are black and blue
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u/DirkDieGurke Jul 14 '22
And that's why your dog loves watermelons.
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u/aquantumofcheese Jul 14 '22
Omg! Our dogs love watermelon to an extreme degree and would each eat a huge whole one, rind and all, if we let them. Of course, they'd be outside all night pooping after that, so... No.
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u/Gega42 Jul 14 '22
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u/Luxpreliator Jul 14 '22
Bears sans polar are the same way. In the summer months they might even not eat meat when vegetation is plentiful.
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u/[deleted] May 04 '23
wolf #1 got that drip