#404: What Men Can Learn From Wolves

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Between 1991 and 1996, Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived with and filmed a pack of wolves in Idaho. From this intensive field work came the award-winning documentary, "Wolves at Our Door." The husband and wife team are out with a new book that highlights some of the things they learned on living a flourishing life from the wolf pack they were embedded within. It’s called "The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons from the Sawtooth Pack." Jim and Jamie share what wolves can teach us about family, respecting your elders, play, the importance of belonging to a group, leadership, and what it really means to be an alpha wolf. Tune in for a fascinating conversation on a fascinating creature that has much to teach us humans. Get the full show notes at aom.is/wisdomofwolves.

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0:00.0	We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast between 1991 and 1996.
0:20.0	Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived with and filmed a pack of wolves in Idaho.
0:24.0	From this intensive field work came the award-winning documentary Wolves at our door.
0:27.6	The husband and wife team are out with a new book that highlights some of the things they learn on limiting flourishing life
0:32.2	in the wolf pack they were embedded within. It's called The Wisdom of Wolves.
0:35.3	Jim and Jamie share what wolves can teach us about family, respecting your elders, play, the importance of belonging to a group, leadership, and what it really means to be an alpha wolf.
0:42.6	Tune in for a fascinating conversation on a fascinating creature that has much to teach us humans.
0:46.7	After shows over, check out the show notes at a.o.m.s slash wisdom of wolves.
0:50.4	And Jim and Jamie join me now via Skype.
0:57.6	Jim and Jamie Dutcher welcome to the show.
1:04.6	Well thank you so much for having us Brett.
1:06.6	Yeah thank you very much.
1:08.6	So you two recently published a book The Wisdom of Wolves and this is based on a project you all did back in the 90s.
1:15.6	You filmed from 1991 to 1996 a pack of wolves and it's called The Sawtooth Pack. Let's start for the background of that. What was the impetus behind the project of filming a pack of wolves for such a long time too?
1:38.6	Well I've been a filmmaker that specializes in animals that you just don't get to see in the wild.
1:45.6	Mountain lions, beavers, undersea subjects, and after finishing a successful film on mountain lions, we put together a proposal with ABC television to do a special on wolves.
2:00.6	But you just can't go out and find a pack of wolves and film them in a meaningful way.
2:07.6	I mean you can but they're so far away, they're so intelligent that they change their behavior and run away.
2:14.6	We wanted to be able to get into their lives, into their social lives.
2:19.6	So we set this project up with puppies, bottle feed them from the moment they opened their eyes and camped with them for six years afterwards.
2:29.6	But we gained their trust by being with them from the moment they realized they were here in this planet.
2:37.6	And where did you all get the wolf pups from, the initial wolf pups?
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