Reading Wolves

As anthropologists and ethnographers we have been examining the significance of individual animal histories for a long time, and our discipline has been defined by multi-special hybridity from its inception, even if we have not always used the same terms to define it. What I attempt here is to construct an account of mutual social learning as a backdrop to competing will assertions in hybrid communities. I am interested in the social dynamics of inter special relations, particularly in how humans and wolves read one another, learn from observation, and anticipate each others' movements based on growing repertoires of memory. In this regard, I am looking at existing conspecific behavioral practices that can be applied across species. It is important to mention at this point that I am not an ethologist, and that as an anthropologist my study of animal behavior must be understood as a study of my human interlocutor's understandings of the same.