Joe Rogan - He Lived with a Pack of Wolves!?

um you know you have you know you know Northern Lights at night if you're if you're locking massive moose and caribou like watching caribou migrating grizzly bears eating blueberries and you know I've been I spent so much time with wolves up in these areas and really engaging with the wolves and stuff and just it's just always fed these experiences to me and that's what really started to mean that's what really mattered the most to me was being in these areas taking a deep breath being super present being super aware and seeing all these different things that were filling my soul right true soul food while I was hunting a moose or while I was hunting in caribou and then maybe being successful on a moose or a caribou in and skinning it out and feeling the weight on my back so I'm getting it back to camp and the northern lights are overhead or the if they're not out the stars are out and I'm hearing wolves howling and I you know I I I lived with a pack of wolves one summer in Alaska when I was out there doing a research and so like all of these livid with the pack of wolves mm-hmm so how'd you do that I was I was doing research for the US Fish and Wildlife Service and I ran a research camp by a genetics camp for the from June through September May through September whatever I did it five years in Rowan and one year pack of wolves moved into my research camp and oh it was whoa I mean whoa I went fly-fishing one night and I was standing on the bank of a river casting it was an eerie little river that I was on is pretty quiet but it had a good flow and we were I was waiting for salmon to come up and those fly fishing for grayling and I just kinda had this eerie feeling I was by myself and I just had this eerie feeling that I was being watched and and I happen to look behind me and there's a big alder thicket right these these these bushes that are probably 10 to 12 feet high have green leaves on them and these twisted gnarly almost like a you know boo radley type tree like gnarly branches and I was just staring in in the alders and there's grizzly bears where I was so I was just trying to mind my and I'm you know I'm walking on wolf and grizzly bear tracks as I'm fishing so I was just staring back in the alders and it was it was like a movie so my my eyes were starting to truncate down on the leaves and then all of a sudden it came dill this little opening I could see a wolf's face staring at me through the alders and she was probably ten yards away something like that and so I saw her and when I looked at her she was just staring at me and I just looked back at her and I and I just said hey you know I just said hey I said hey mama what's going on and I just kept fishing because I wanted her to know that I knew and I turned my back on her I kept fishing well lo and behold she comes out on the sandbar with me and she starts walking down behind me and it was funny because if I didn't make eye contact she was totally chilled but if I made eye contact she would snarl at me she raised her lips up and give a little deep-seated growl and so she was standing now she's probably three feet behind me what yeah and so she's she's right there she's literally right there and so I'm just like hey mom what's going on just cast my fly rod and like when I'm not looking at her she's kind of trying to check me out she's doing the whole nose extension getting a whiff so she moves off she moves off down there three feet hmm she moves off down you have a gun on you I did have a 12-gauge at that time I'd had 12 gauge slug gun but I've rarely took that thing with me but I got in trouble actually from one of my bosses because one of the other biologists told my boss like never he never carries the gun and we're supposed to carry gonorrhea wherever it going so I'm just like whatever but so she laughed and we didn't worry the Chi was gonna attack you no no I did she get so close that seemed weird I don't know yeah she was just checking me out she's just checking me out and that's that's that's that's how I was reading into it any so you think just by the way you were talking to her that she realized that you weren't even interested in being a threat and she was confident that she can get the [ __ ] away from you that's a good question yeah that's a good question on the feet yeah that's this that's yeah maybe even two-and-a-half feet she's right that's like you could touch her oh it gets much better it gets much better I end up spending a whole summer with her and all the other animals in the in the pack so the next day I hear her howl down the river so I'm just messing around so I hauled back to her she howl was back to me instantly I howl back to her son I see her she's now standing exactly where I was standing the night before it's all true story she's sitting on her butt sitting upright like you would see a German Shepherd sitting staring at me so I give her just a little coil oh oh oh she lays down she maintains eye contact with me and then she just sitting there staring at me and then she sits up again and I howl again just a little one she lays down again she just maintaining on eye contact and she leaves that night so the area that tundra that I was on is greatly impacted by even human foot traffic so you have to be really careful where you step because you know your footprint will be there for a long time so we'd walk on these little planks that we made out of two by fours I would sit up on logs that were you know that we put placed in and put in place night tent where I slept and I had a genetics tent where I did all my stuff then I had to cook ten things like that and so but right in front of my tent I had this little platform where I would get dressed in the morning because I would I would literally live for five and a half months and a little two and a half person pop tent and so I get out in the morning and get dressed on this little piece of wood and then I'd walked at breakfast or whatever or it's the river in the middle of the night that alpha male was sitting on my little platform and he how old it right outside my tent dough and I sat up and I grabbed my gun and I was just sitting there and he woke me up from a dead sleep I was just sitting there panting with my gun I was looking all around and I didn't know what it was then I heard something and I kind of peeked out and I saw that it was this big male I was like ah okay it's just not just a wolf but like you know I'm he's not gonna bother me at all so I hung my gun back up and I just ordered set my gun back down and I just laid back down but those two instances just started each day the next day I come out and I'm walking to the genetics tent and I see him he's 20 yards away and he's paralleling me on this plank and I go into the cook tent and then I'm kind of like peeking out the little corners you know like I wanted I cuz I don't know what they're doing I don't want to walk out and get attacked her and I I don't think that's they have no body language of hunting whatsoever and and so what is their body language of curiosity curiosity yeah I hate I hate anthropomorphize yeah but it was just like it was just like that movie never cry wolf that's exactly how the Wolverine game was that movie just about a researcher book by Farley Mowat of a researcher that went up to the Canadian government had they were thinking that wolves were decimating these caribou herds and so they sent this biologist up there to research the wolves to see how many caribou they were killing and basically what the biologists found out is that the Wolves weren't killing any caribou zero caribou they were killing read-back voles and they were fishing and they're doing other ways they're eating small animals which is basically a very large part of what wolves do they very small animals and occasionally kill caribou occasionally kill moose things I got in certain areas there they can be really hardcore predators and other areas that eat a lot of mice and so but that's how these wolves were engaging with the actor in this movie and you know they're kind of inquisitive they're coming around and and so these these wolves they were just always present like even I would go hiking just to get some exercise and literally three or four of them would go with me and they'd hang back like 50 60 yards behind me but I'd hike for like ten miles and I they do the whole thing with me and return back to camp with me and then it started to really grow because we have this research gear that's in the river so that we can count speciate and sample the salmon as they swim through to go spawn but after the salmon spawn they all die right and so they would spawn and die and they'd come back and they'd wash up on my gear and so I'd have all these that's why the Wolves were there they wanted to eat the dead fish that were coming back down and so as I started toss fish off on the banks of the river usually I would just toss them back into the river but I toss them on the banks the fresher fish and the Wolves started eating them and then our relationship just kept growing and growing and growing and growing and and then I'm spending like three and a half months with them did you think while you were doing this that this is probably how human beings and wolves yes develop this relationship hundred percent 100 percent 100 percent and actually I feel bad saying this and I hope I don't offend anybody but I was working with two Inuit guys to ask him well guys and they wanted to shoot all these wolves I kind of lied to him and I just said man like have you ever seen wolves behave like this and they said no and I said well you know some of your guys beliefs you know fall that your ancestors move on into the animal kingdom right and they're like yeah and I said well is there a chance that some of these wolves could be some of your ancestors you know and I know that's not true at least I think I know that's not true but they're like yeah yeah so I just was trying to convince his ex they wanted to blast these things and so I just convinced him not to shoot the wolves and I feel like an [ __ ] singing why do you feel like an [ __ ] saying that I don't know I just didn't want them to shoot the wolves so I just kind of probably a good way to rationalize I steered them down a path of worse might have gone anyway yeah and so but I spent time with those wolves and I've had you know and the idea of management like when we were in the short that Jamie is just playing who we are that we played you can see some wolves in there and a few years ago I got surrounded by a pack of wolves in the Arctic with the crew and it filmed really beautifully and it wasn't and it was one of the most remarkable engagements I've ever had in the wilderness and they were definitely their body language was definitely looking at us as though are we food right so this that was one of them but we had like six or seven wolves come in behind us so this wolf would be in front of us two or three others would be behind us but you can see they're not attacking us they're not even hunting us but you can just see like they're wondering you know is there is there a play here right is there is there a play here and and and I've and I and I mean this I'm not being a tough guy there wasn't an ounce that I didn't have a not a fiber of my body was afraid at any point and there's probably six seven wolves around us within ten yards all and they're communicating they're doing this little like so they're talking to each other and then they just moved off and it turns out that the moose that I was stalking I think they were stalking too there was a big bowl that was bedded and if they weren't stalking him because I think they would have had their hands full with him so that if they weren't stalking him and they were just moving in that general direction in a they were for sure hunting and I've just I've always had a you know tremendous respect for them and I've always spent I've just they've I've always had time with them I've always had time in them I've always been I've had wolf tags in my pocket before you know this kind of falls under the same idea of conservation like these wolves right here right I had a wolf tag in my pocket and my bow I could have arrowed any of these wolves easily multiples of them probably but I don't only kill a wolf here because I you know they know when another wolf has gone right the pack knows and so that that weighs on me a little bit that's me so why right why kill them many of them this is a real issue see that was the thing for me is like I didn't have I didn't do my homework for this area so I was just like I don't know if there's a lot of little wolves I'm not gonna kill a wolf I know interest in killing wolf I get a wolf tag with my stuff raynella was telling me that there's a one of the explorers that traveled the west during the Lewis and Clark days his favorite meal was wolf and that wolf was literally his favorite thing to eat hmm I've never eaten it yeah I would have a real hard time I just couldn't they're too much like dogs yeah they're I think there's some sort of a genetic memory that we have of our relationship with wolves and they mean they've become dogs and they've become our you know our companions and they've become a part of our community yeah it just wasn't you know it wasn't for me when the pilot picked me up he asked me that I'd seen any wolves and I said yeah we saw a lot of wolves and he's like all there now you know he's not I'm not telling you he's running surveys here he's like yeah there's a lot of wolves here there's a lot of predation on on moose here so we're trying to we're trying to really cut the wolves down here but and I saw a lot of wolves but I also saw a ton of moose and I saw a ton of cows and I saw lots of calves and lots of big bulls so everything seemed to be functioning in that area and I also saw a ton of red back voles right they look like mice with little short tails and I know where there's a lot of red back voles I know that wolves do extremely well eating them and so you see these little tunnels in the tundra and stuff and I think wolves eat a lot smaller of prey than people think on average right we see sensational things of small dogs or wolves and we filmed I don't know if did you see the dingo hunt that we filmed in Australia no oh oh my god and I was wondering a dingo hunt no we were hunting Buffalo and while we were hunting Buffalo dingo was just exploded from the bush and the dingoes were pack hunting the Asiatic water buffalos nobody's ever seen it before nobody's ever filmed it before we had the dingo Institute call us immediately from Australia we had pigs a dingo small tiny dude so we filmed all this in Australia it's literally never been filmed before to our knowledge everyone that we talked to that is Dingle researchers they want to know exactly where this was because I'd never seen this behavior and see this behavior right here that was I'm actually coming in to hunt us but you can see the whole crew sat down everybody was totally committed they're trying to kill that calf right there and still that calf is monstrous right so there's four or five six on there and then they chase they Stampede the whole herd directly write in to us that's what you're seeing right here and that the herd actually comes to like 15 feet before they split around us we're all sitting on our butts and then the dingoes actually turned their attention to us and they come in around us because you can see us instantly looking at us as a worm meal but like wolves like grizzly bears like black bears very quickly they looking at a guy ass is not gonna work out for me yeah they don't want to die you know what he means like yeah nobody had ever seen when I died why the [ __ ] are they going after water by I don't know these things as giant terrible idea but obviously they're I don't know if this group has done this before well they must have right they must have been successful in the on the calf you know and the idea is that they're gonna chase them and wear them out and that one of the calf's gonna be separating they gonna take it down yeah but they're like 35 pounds that's so crazy there's such a small animal and these calves even the calves are probably like 100 pounds you see I'm bigger yeah maybe 200 that guy looks Australian as [ __ ] the other guy yeah he's barefoot and everything hey Mike yeah no yeah look at my hat so yeah

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Published: Tue May 29 2018