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This is a short post because it’s difficult to find online video insights into real-world Mongolia.

Culturally, of course, Mongolia and its wolves are famous, both in historical settings —

— and more recently:

Outside the theater, facts are as simple and harsh as the struggle for life itself.

The gray wolf, Canis lupus, came to this high plain long ago and still hangs on there, somehow —

Life is tough for human and beast, but Wikipedia notes that:

In Mongolia, the wolf is seen as a spirit animal whereas the dog is seen as a family member. Mongolians do not fear the wolf and understand that it is afraid of humans. It is sometimes called “the sheep’s assassin”. In legend, the Mongolian herders’ first father was a wolf from which they had descended, and yet they are required to kill wolves to protect their flocks of sheep…

In Mongolia, in brief but fully outlined, is our struggle with Earth and with the one carnivore species that we have split in two, one half being domestic and the other being part god, part competition for very limited resources.

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Featured image: Bastian Bodyl/Shutterstock

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