Coltan Scrivner

You're going to find it in the woods, especially if you're alone.

And I think if you didn't have that story, the kids would never know what a wolf really looked like or acted like or where you would find one.

And importantly, we've had domesticated dogs for what, 30, 40,000 years?

I don't know.

A long time.

Yeah.

And so the only thing that a kid would see that had looked or sounded like a wolf, even resembled a wolf, would be their domesticated dog, which would give them the wrong idea about how friendly wolves are.

Again, I think it's a mixture of like pedagogy and just entertaining stories.

But humans tell a lot of stories that

have a piece of learning in it, even modern films, even outside of horror.

We always try to attach like a moral lesson to a film or we have like a moral point that we're trying to make in most stories.

And I think just in the past, there was definitely moral points, but there were also some practical ones about just what you're likely to run into in your local environment.

Because we had a much smaller world back in the day.

It was like your world was 200 people you knew really well.

And

a few square miles of land that you knew really well.

And so it's important to know everything you could about that.

And if that included wolves, then you would probably have folklore about wolves.

If it included jaguars, you'd have folklore about jaguars.

You see that all across the world.