Dog Attack Styles Depend upon Bite Strength.
This program is about the Dire Wolf and the comparison between that animal and the modern wolf. The shepherd breeds are meant to show the lighter modern wolf’s attack style. The Dutch shepherd attacked the same way that the Fila Mastiff and the American Bulldog did. It’s funny, but the Dutch Shephered is often judged by the same standard as the Malinois. I wonder if a really hardcore Malinois were used, one that came from heavier breeding, that the results might have been different.
The Dire Wolf had a bigger head than a modern wolf and much more massive teeth. It may have been slightly dumber than the modern wolf, because many of these animals were killed in the La Brea Tarpits. But that’s horrible speculation.
Head sizes are key to dog bite strength, as this video points out. Wolves, for example, have a bite strength twice that of a similar-sized German shepherd. Wolves have massive heads, especially those races of wolf that have evolved to hunt large game like Moose. Mastiff dogs often have very strong bites. I know this because I had a cross between a golden and boxer, with the boxer predominating. When we fed our dogs bones, the boxer cross could crunch the strongest bones, while her retriever friends could not. Working retrievers don’t have large, muscular heads when compared to the Molosser breeds. (They probably have bigger brains, though!).
This program is excellent. If it’s ever on National Geographic, I highly recommend it.
No dog or wolf alive, though, has the bite of the Dire Wolf. Even our big mastiffs and big wolves can’t equal that bite force of that animal. It must have been a site to behold! (BTW, the Dire wolf was only about a hundred pounds in weight, roughly the size of the average male wolf from the Northern and Western subpecies).
pitbulls bites are stronger then German shepherds because I tested this when they both were a puppy
Science says otherwise.
How can you say that when you tested them (pit bull and German Shepherd) when they were pups? They’re not even full grown yet.
You sound like my sister’s illiterate boyfriend. He speaks as though his pitbull is a weapon.
Actually, I saw Brady Barr replicate the experiment, and the dogs were adults.
Just remember that these people ruin pit bulls for everyone else.
Lobo, a wolf shot in 1893 in North central New Mexico, was called the “giant cattle killing wolf” and in fact weighed 207 pounds lean weight. This was an animal that was an exceptional runner and escaped attempts on his life many times. What a bite he must have had. And LOL I still recall the STUPID veterinarian who insisted that a wolf’s teeth are no longer than a domestic dog’s of similar bodyweight. They sure as hell are longer and thicker except maybe for Irish Wolfhound. It may have taken 2 on 1 for wolfhounds to best wolves. Wolves also average better problem solvers (more intelligent) than domestic dogs because domestics have people to solve problems for them. Domestication tended towards lesser jaw strength because bones began to be withheld from dogs diets, and lost the adaptation of crushing the stoutest bones.
That’s exactly right.
Do you know how many pit bull people I’ve tried to explain this to? The Russians used three borzoi to bring down one wolf. And then they could only do it if they were able to run down the wolf and catch it by the neck on two sides before the wolf could fight back.
This is how I understand wolves versus dogs. Dogs are bonobos; wolves are chimpanzees.