How are dogs different from wolves?

It is believed that dogs and wolves are not so different from each other. Like, if you raise a wolf cub like a dog, he will behave in exactly the same way. Is this opinion fair and how do dogs differ from wolves?

Although scientists have found that dogs and wolves are genetically 99,8% “matched”, nevertheless, their behavior differs in many ways. And this was very clearly shown by an experiment conducted by scientists at the University of Budapest (Hungary).

The researchers took more blind wolf cubs and began to raise them as dogs (while each of the scientists had experience in raising puppies). They spent 24 hours a day with the kids, constantly carried them with them. And at first it seemed that wolf cubs were no different from puppies. However, clear differences soon emerged.

Growing wolf cubs, unlike dogs, did not at all seek to cooperate with humans. They actually did what they considered necessary, and they were not in the least interested in the actions and desires of people.

If people were going to have breakfast and opened the refrigerator, the wolf cub would immediately materialize and snatch the first thing that fell on the tooth, not paying any attention to the prohibitions of the person. The cubs strove to destroy everything, jumped on the tables, threw things off the shelves, the protection of the resource was very clearly manifested. And the further, the worse the situation became. As a result, keeping wolf cubs in the house turned into torture.

Then scientists in a series of experiments compared wolf cubs and puppies of the same age. Unlike puppies, wolf cubs did not respond to human pointing gestures, they tried to avoid eye contact with people, and in tests for affection they did not make much difference between “their” person and other representatives of the Homo sapiens species. In fact, the wolf cubs behaved in the same way as in the wild environment.

The experiment proved that education is of very little importance, and the differences between wolves and dogs are still not in the conditions of life. So no matter how hard you try, you can’t turn a wolf into a dog. And these differences are not the result of upbringing, but of the process of domestication.