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Title
Eastern Timber Wolves Sparring - 2
Artist
Robert McAlpine
Medium
Photograph
Description
Sparring which includes snarling, growling, yelping, snapping and even the occasional wound, is the wolf pack's way of establishing and enforcing the hierarchy. Often higher ranked members of the pack will chase an omega and scapegoat him to keep the hierarchy established. The alphas eat first, and the omegas stand back until the higher ranking members have finished eating. A wolf pack is not a democracy.
THE STORY BEHIND THE PICTURE – Omega Parc, in Quebec, about a 1.5 hour drive from Ottawa, has captive packs of timber and arctic wolves in large separate enclosures where the packs live by the natural social structure of a wild pack. It is a marvelous place to sit on a raised platform for many hours, cameras on the ready, and simply observe and photograph the sociology of the pack functioning pretty much the way they do in the wild. Of course they are fed because it would be impossible to expect them to survive in the limited space by hunting; but interactions with the park staff are strictly limited so the wolves function as a pack. This shot was made in July of 2014 using a full-frame Nikon D4 camera fitted with a Nikkor f/2.8 70 to 200 mm zoom lens (ISO 500 FL 200mm, f/8 1/500 sec).
Featured: "Canadiana - Canadian Artists and Art" - 2014-Aug-7
Featured: "I Love Nature Photography" - 2014 Aug-30
Featured: "Ontario Canada"; October 5, 2014
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Voted into second place out of 83 entries in a competition entitled "Fall Wolves and Friends", in the FAA Group, "Wolves and Friends" November 6, 2017
Faa Competition: "Amimals" - Threeway- tie (1st, 2nd and 3rd) out of 431 entries - 2018-July-24
FAA Competitions: "Wolf Art" - 1st place out of 211 entries - 2019-Apr-23
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July 26th, 2014
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