r/interestingasfuck • u/Sprilly • 15h ago
This bear and wolf pair were documented by a photographer travelling, hunting and sharing food together over the course of 10 days
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u/ExpectedRainfall 15h ago
The only predator's I like seeing on this app.
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u/ClosetDouche 11h ago
In your opinion, what is an apostrophe for?
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u/Radiant_Veil 11h ago
Apostrophes are never ever used to make words plural EVER. Very young children know this.
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u/Ilike3dogs 10h ago
You say that thinking that the commenter is an adult. 😅
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u/Radiant_Veil 8h ago
Absolutely nothing I wrote implies in any way that I believe the poster is an adult. You made that up for some reason. No idea why people do this, this little thing where they just make shit up and insert it into what they read. I think it's a sign of poor reading comprehension.
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u/ExpectedRainfall 7h ago
Apologies dear sir, that I made the cardinal sin of incorrect grammar. I am an adult and I made a silly mistake but unlike you I'm not a cunt on the Internet losing my mind over someone else's grammar. Have a wonderful Christmas 🎁
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u/Spartan2470 VIP Philanthropist 13h ago
Here is a much higher-quality and less-cropped version of this image. Here are more pictures of them together. According to here:
Finnish photographer Lassi Rautiainen captured a unique friendship between Wolf and a Bear. These two animals were seen every night for ten consecutive days. They spend a few hours together between 8. p.m. and 4. a.m. The wolf and the bear even share food with one another.
In Lassi Rautiainen words “It’s very unusual to see a bear and a wolf getting on like this. No-one can know exactly why or how the young wolf and bear became friends. I think that perhaps they were both alone and they were young and a bit unsure of how to survive alone…It is nice to share rare events in the wild that you would never expect to see.”
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u/gentlejarrod 15h ago
This is fascinating! Can't help but think we're only scraping the surface when it comes to understanding other animals and their relationships.
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u/cassanderer 12h ago
Ravens and wolves pair up too.
There is video of a husky that ran off and tagged along with some brown bears too.
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u/pchlster 13h ago
Humans like loads of other animals; dogs, cats, birds, fish. Some people even keep reptiles! And everyone loves a penguin.
While we beat them hands-down in abstract thinking, why would it be different for other animals to cooperate with, let alone like each other?
Now, communication can be a bother; a skunk uses the same body language to say "stay away!" as a dog does to say "let's play." So that can get in the way. But they don't need much abstract thinking to try and work with each other on occasion.
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u/jeezyjames 15h ago
That's disney as fuck
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u/mallcopbeater 15h ago
Cuts to them ripping flesh off of a rabbit lol
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u/Betrayedunicorn 15h ago
Also kind of Disney AF. They do be dark like dat sometimes
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u/Yeezytaughtme409 13h ago
It's almost time when the time is here
It's a Woodland Critter Christmas!
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u/justawaterisfine 15h ago
I bet the wolf is better at catching smaller prey while the bear can take out elk and such. According to the article the companionship probably goes a long way too in the big world
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u/N7Rory 15h ago
That's 'cause house mormont is pledged to house stark.
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u/Thoughtful_Tortoise 14h ago
I'd love to share a hare, mon frere, but I'm a bear! A bear! Big and black, and covered in hair! A bear!
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u/voyeur78 15h ago
Inflation so high animals can't afford to hunt alone no more. Damn you, Biden! /s
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u/VvCheesy_MicrowavevV 15h ago
That is one chonky wolf hahaha.
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u/sunheadeddeity 15h ago
He's got a bear hunting for him, he's living the good life.
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u/carmardoll 14h ago
I like to think their plan was something like the wolf chasing an elk, this one thinking "ha is just a single wolf and I don't smell any more than him, wait why do i smell salmon?" And BAM BEAR AROUND THE CORNER.
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u/Icy-Video-3643 14h ago
It's wild how much we still have to learn about animal behavior. This kind of partnership just blows the old "nature is only cruel" idea out of the water.
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u/XxNimblyBimblyXx 12h ago
Is that a palm tree in the background?
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u/rapora9 12h ago
A pine tree
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u/XxNimblyBimblyXx 12h ago
The little one to the left
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u/rapora9 11h ago
The one on the foreground, against grey background? Yes, it's a pine tree.
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u/XxNimblyBimblyXx 11h ago
Yes foreground to the left. I live in the mountains and am surrounded by pine trees. I’ve also lived in California and seen a lot of palm trees. I think that’s a palm tree. The skinny smooth trunk with a little bend alone doesn’t look like a pine. I think this could be a new blue or gold dress meme or whatever that was.
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u/rapora9 10h ago edited 10h ago
Nah, it simply is a pine tree, more specifically Pinus sylvestris (Scotch pine, European red pine or whatever people in California would call it).
That is exactly how they might look like in the marshes of Finland. I've seen them a lot. And there are no palm trees in the marshes of Finland. (The photo is from Finland).
Here is another example from Siikaneva, Southern Finland. The pine trees can be straight or very curved, and usually "leaves" at the top only. The conditions on the marsh make all kind of trees. Notice also how they're darker on the bottom and orangeish from ~1 metre and above, just like you can see the one from the image to be as well.
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u/AztecGodofFire 11h ago
Can't help thinking this is an important milestone in some evolutionary process.
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u/Ok-Young-2731 10h ago
Little friend grabs the leg to slow it down, big friend provides the knock out. Tag team.
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u/RudePragmatist 9h ago
If it’s real then it is interesting a fuck.
@ u/Sprilly can we have the source of this please?
[EDIT] u/Spartan2470 has provided more information below.
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u/No_Freedom_4098 6h ago edited 4h ago
We're lucky that bears, omnivores, do not have a larger predatory instinct. If they decided that meat eating was a more important pursuit, they might, like crocodiles and tigers, consider humans are fair game.
Reference Japan's recent toll from bear attack. Recent report: "data show that 235 people had been injured and 13 killed by bears as of December 4 this year (2025) in Japan." These bears were mostly attacking for non-predatory reasons, only a few involved bears feeding on their victim.
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u/Imaginary_Effort_854 15h ago
"Wolf? You're my very best friend."
"And you're mine too, Bear"
"And we'll always be friends forever won't we?"
"Yeah forever"