{"id":9195,"date":"2025-04-09T14:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9195"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:21:44","slug":"the-return-of-the-dire-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/09\/the-return-of-the-dire-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Dire Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7274542\/colossal-dire-wolf\/\">Time<\/a> Romulus and Remus are doing what puppies do: chasing, tussling, nipping, nuzzling. But there\u2019s something very un-puppylike about the snowy white 6-month olds\u2014their size, for starters. At their young age they already measure nearly 4 ft. long, tip the scales at 80 lb., and could grow to 6 ft. and 150 lb. Then there\u2019s their behavior: the angelic exuberance puppies exhibit in the presence of humans\u2014trotting up for hugs, belly rubs, kisses\u2014is completely absent. They keep their distance, retreating if a person approaches. Even one of the handlers who raised them from birth can get only so close before Romulus and Remus flinch and retreat. This isn\u2019t domestic canine behavior, this is wild lupine behavior: the pups are wolves. Not only that, they\u2019re dire wolves\u2014which means they have cause to be lonely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7274542\/colossal-dire-wolf\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"824\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-15.16.18-1024x824.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-15.16.18-1024x824.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-15.16.18-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-15.16.18-768x618.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-15.16.18.png 1498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Romulus and Remus are doing what puppies do: chasing, tussling, nipping, nuzzling. But there\u2019s something very un-puppylike about the snowy white 6-month olds\u2014their size, for starters. At their young age they already measure nearly 4 ft. long, tip the scales at 80 lb., and could grow to 6 ft. and 150 lb. Then there\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-15.16.18.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9197,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9195\/revisions\/9197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}