Wolf

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~ WOLF  id+ | TEAR OFF |
        med> see> LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS denotes
  A DISORDER THAT "TEARS THE FLESH APART"
  etymology   see> LUPA
  see> WOUND
  see> VULTURE
  sug> VULNERABLE
  sug> WOLFS are like
       A WILD CANINE or a WILD DOG
  biol> from the CANIS or DOG FAMILY
        WOLVES ARE A VARIANT OF DOG
  WOLVES HAVE AN OVAL or
  OBLIQUE EYE PUPIL
  DOGS HAVE ROUND CENTRIC PUPILS
  THE WOLF or CANIS LUPUS may be theh 
  ANCESTOR OF DOMESTIC DOGS
  OTHER PROPOSED ANCESTORS OF THE DOG
  MAY BE THE JACKAL or FOX
  CANINE AND WOLF BEHAVIOR ARE CLOSER THAN
  CANINE WITH JACKAL or FOX
  THE WOLF DOES NOT WEAN ITS PUPS 
  instead FOR EIGHT MONTH 
          IT FEEDS THE PUPS 
  REGURGITATED FOOD
  WOLF PUPS EXPOSED TO HUMANS CAN
  BECOME FULLY GREGARIOUS IF
  EXPOSED BEFORE THEIR 14th WEEK
  IF EXPOSED LATER
  PUPS WILL RETAIN
  SOME WILD RESIDUAL BEHAVIORS
  note in contrast to THE WOLF
       A COYOTE OR FOX REARED BY HUMANS
  WILL RETAIN RESIDUAL WILD BEHAVIORAL TRAITS
  lat LUPUS CANIS IS BROADLY DISTRIBUTED
  ITS CLOSENESS TO HUMANS AND
  ABILITY TO IMPREGNATE FEMALE DOMESTIC DOGS
  OR IN THE WILD ENGENDERED MANY STORIES
  ABOUT THIS INTELLIGENT PACK ANIMAL
  lit+ IN 1903 THE AMERICAN NOVELIST
       Jack LONDON [#] WROTE
  "Call of the Wild"  a story about
  A DOG LURED INTO THE WILD AND
  A SOCIETY OF WOLVES
  IN 1907 JACK LONDON WROTE A COMPANION PIECE
  "WHITE FANG" CONCERNING
  A WOLF DRAWN INTO HUMAN SOCIETY
  myth> IN MANY MYTHOLOGIES
        THE WOLF HOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE
  as in ROMULUS AND REMUS etc    sug> ROME
  AMONG SLAVS IT ALSO HOLDS
  A KEY AND MAJOR PLACE
  often WOLF IS A NICKNAME FOR CHILDREN as in
  ukr   VOLODYMYR = VLADIMIR or
        WLADIMIR    or
  ger   WALDEMAR    and diminutives
        VOVA        LITTLE WOLF
        VOVK        WOLF
  bulg  VULK        WOLF
  sp    LOBO        idem
  lat   LUPUS       idem
  sp    LUPANAR     WHORE HOUSE
  eng   BITCH       FEMALE DOG or WOLF or
                    PROMISCUOUS FEMALE
  myth> EASTERN EUROPEANS AND
        SLAVS IN PARTICULAR
  HOLD ON TO THE PAGAN BELIEF
  THAT THE DEVIL MADE THE WOLF BUT
  COULD NOT INSTILL LIFE INTO HIM
  THE DEVIL HAD TO ASK FOR HELP FROM GOD
  WHO ADVISED THE DEVIL TO SAY
  " GET UP AND EAT ME "    sug> CRY WOLF
  THIS DONE
  THE WOLF AROSE AND
  THE DEVIL HAD TO FLEE
  SUCH STORIES ARE
  AT THE ROOT OF SLAVIC BELIEFS THAT
  ASCRIBE TO THE WOLF
  THE TASK TO EAT DEVILS
  UNTIL RECENT TIMES
  AT CHRISTMAS TIME
  FOOD WAS LEFT AT CROSSROADS FOR
  THE WOLF TO HAVE HIS OWN CHRISTMAS DINNER
  also RITES TAKE PLACE
       ON HOLY ARCHANGEL DAY or
  ST TRIFON or ST SABAS or
  ST GEORGE DAY DURING WHICH
  THE DEVIL IS AFRAID OF THE WOLF
  THE WOLF FED ON VAMPIRES
  also THE WOLF IS CLAIMED AS
  THE ANCESTOR OF TURKISH or
  TURKIC MONGOLIAN TRIBES
  in contrast to the EASTERN REGIONS
  WESTERN EUROPEAN MYTHOLOGIES PORTRAY ANIMALS AND
  THE WOLF IN NEGATIVE TONES
  note BEAST in sp BESTIA leading to
  BESTIARY or BEASTLY
  note " TO WOLF IT DOWN "
  note how until recent times
  THE PUBLIC ACCEPTED MUCH OF THE NONSENSE
  FOUND IN THE "SERIOUS" PRESS ABOUT
  WOLFS ATTACKING MILITARY UNITS etc
  such nonsense may be symbolized in
  maxim> "CRY WOLF"
  lit+ many existing prejudices persist [90] and
       Bergen EVANS [#] dedicates a whole chapter
  to "WOLF WOLF"
  hx> SINCE THE 1990's ALASKA ALLOWS
      SHOOTING POISONING and TRAPPING OF
  THE LAST REMAINING POPULATIONS OF WOLVES
  ENCOURAGED UNDER THE AEGIS OF
  BUSINESSES INTERESTED IN DESTROYING
  WOLFS WHO PREDATE ON ELKS WHICH ARE
  PROMOTED AS A HUNTING "GAME"