Wolf pack and coloring improvement

[dmeah96]

I have extensively studied wolves. The wolf behavior needs to be updated to match real life. What I mean is the children would become part of the pack and not fight with their parents, like the game.
Also, Timber wolves can be black, white, gray, red, and everything in between. The color variety needs to updated to more than just gray.

 

[FoxyDee]

Just for the info, Frontier said that they did not include colours such as black for them because they only wanted to include naturaly occured colours (black colorization in wolves is a consequence of breeding with dogs).

Also, was there not an update for the pack animals? Once they have set an alpha female and male, they do not fight anymore, at least in my game.

 

[NZFanatic]

Wolf pups also do not exclusively become part of the pack, they often leave to form their own packs. In any case, it has been observed that captivity does have an altering effect on wolf behaviour.

 

[dmeah96]

Just for the info, Frontier said that they did not include colours such as black for them because they only wanted to include naturaly occured colours (black colorization in wolves is a consequence of breeding with dogs).

Also, was there not an update for the pack animals? Once they have set an alpha female and male, they do not fight anymore, at least in my game.

I'll need to check the wolves fighting. But black is now naturally in the wild. Still, that doesn't explain the lack of the other colors.

 

[dmeah96]

Wolf pups also do not exclusively become part of the pack, they often leave to form their own packs. In any case, it has been observed that captivity does have an altering effect on wolf behaviour.

In some cases pups leave, in some cases they stay.

 

[NZFanatic]

In some cases pups leave, in some cases they stay.

Yup, that is what I meant by 'not exclusively'. Wolf social behaviours are super complex, probably more complex than a game as simple as PZ can handle. There's also the other point that wolves do behave differently in captivity than they would in the wild, mostly due to the inability to leave the pack as a result of having a limited territory.

 

[MissySanchez]

Just for the info, Frontier said that they did not include colours such as black for them because they only wanted to include naturaly occured colours (black colorization in wolves is a consequence of breeding with dogs).

Doesn't that contradict the fact that we already have a feral dog on the roster?

 

[NZFanatic]

Doesn't that contradict the fact that we already have a feral dog on the roster?

The dingo is a taxonomical mystery, but if they ever started out as domestic dogs it was thousands of years ago. Fossil records genetically linked to the dingo go all the way back to the Yangtze River in China, and show that the dingo hasn't been selectively bred. So they don't technically count as feral dogs. More like 'rewilded' dogs that evolved like any other species over time.

 

[MissySanchez]

The dingo is a taxonomical mystery, but if they ever started out as domestic dogs it was thousands of years ago. Fossil records genetically linked to the dingo go all the way back to the Yangtze River in China, and show that the dingo hasn't been selectively bred. So they don't technically count as feral dogs. More like 'rewilded' dogs that evolved like any other species over time.

I think that still makes them more domestic than a wolf with a single gene for black fur.