Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - Sean Ellis's introduction

Sean Ellis's introduction

Learn "Wolf Language" from Indians

He has been interested in animals since childhood. Sean has been to Idaho and lived with a native American Indian for 9 years. Sean learned how to communicate with wolves from Indians.

He once slept in a nest with wolves and went out to look for food together. Once, Sean and Zack, the owner of Wolves, had an argument over a duck. Zach violently threw Sean to the ground. Sean was shocked at the time, but even so, Zach didn't hurt Sean's hair. Zach let Sean know who is the boss of wolves. From then on, Sean never dared to challenge again.

Howling at the sky with wolves.

Sean always wanted to have his own wolf family. By chance, he met three little wolves abandoned by his mother. In order not to let the three little wolves starve to death, Sean decided to keep them himself. And he also chose the most unusual way to raise the wolf cubs-disguised himself as a wolf and lived with the wolf cubs like a mother wolf.

In addition to living with wolf cubs, Sean often howls at the sky with them, licks each other's faces, and even "eats" dead livestock carcasses together. However, Sean didn't really eat the carcasses of livestock raw. He just hid plastic bags containing food in the carcasses of livestock. When the little wolf fights for the carcasses of livestock, he just "grabs" the plastic bags in the carcasses of livestock.

Can communicate with wolves

Sean thinks that he has mastered the language of wolves and has been able to communicate with wolves through body posture, facial expressions and vocalization. He also wrote his own experience into a book called Wolf Talk. Sean told reporters: "Wolves use simple language." Sean thinks he can use his knowledge as an "ambassador" between humans and wolves.

In the documentary, the photographer filmed Sean trying to "persuade" and stop wolves from attacking livestock with his knowledge of wolf language in Poland.

See the world through "wolf eyes"

Sean admits that when he lives like a wolf, many people think he is crazy. In fact, Sean also warned in the documentary that "dancing with wolves" is an extremely dangerous behavior for untrained ordinary people. In many days of living with wolves, Sean even stopped thinking like a human being. He completely hides his human feelings, because the wolf itself has no human feelings. This makes it difficult for Sean to communicate with others after leaving the wolves without going through an adaptation period.

The price is "separation"

In 10 years, because Sean spent too much time on wolves, his relationship with his wife Jane (the mother of his four children) broke up, although Sean thought that they broke up because of "reasons other than wolves".

In view of Sean's strange experience of living with wolves, people are both interested and skeptical. Doug smith, a biologist and director of the Grey Wolf Project in Yellowstone National Park, said, "You can eat and sleep with wolves, but we can never imitate some internal habits of wolves. We cannot and cannot think like wolves. "