Captive wolves often forget how to hunt in the wild
When a captive wolf escaped into a South Korean city, experts realized that years of regular meals had erased the survival instincts required to hunt.
In 2018, a two-year-old wolf named Neukgu escaped from a zoo in Daejeon, South Korea, wandering into a landscape where his ancestors had been extinct for a century. While he possessed the physical tools of an apex predator, Neukgu lacked the cultural knowledge passed down through wild packs.
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