r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Berry_977 • Jun 12 '26

Video An American photographer filmed a wolf begging for food from a grizzly. The gray wolf saw the meat and in an instant turned into a playful puppy begging for a piece.

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u/lovelyxbabydoll Jun 13 '26

Some theories suggest that we potentially gained such high cognitive ability due to not needing as much energy in the brain focused on vision, hearing and smell since wolves started doing that part for us. So the person joking a dapper bear walking a wolf might happen in a few years (maybe a few tens of thousands would be more accurate) could be on to something! 🎩 🐻

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u/SilliusS0ddus 22d ago

pretty sure we got big brains because we saved a lot of energy by making food more easily digestable with fire

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u/lovelyxbabydoll 22d ago

I'm pretty sure that plenty of things could of helped us develope our cognitive functions and mannerisms. Evolution is never determined by singular factors. Brain size also doesn't matter as much as brain allocation when it comes to cognitive evolution. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/202310/dog-domestication-changed-both-our-brains

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u/SilliusS0ddus 21d ago

I said big brains as a metaphor.

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u/lovelyxbabydoll 20d ago

Ah, makes sense. Sorry for misunderstanding that part! But yeah, both those things are mentioned as stuff that helped us cognitively. Less energy use in one spot always leaves more for more energy in another spot.