However, the wolves on which biologists founded their conclusions about dominance hierarchies were animals living in unnaturally constituted groups in captivity.
One reason zoos today are able to keep koalas is the rise in the koala population in its native habitat, the eucalyptus forests of southeastern Australia.
The horses on this side of the fence aren't domestic animals like those belonging to the Mongolians and Kazakhs. These are the last wild horses on Earth!
The reason for this is interesting- it's because all of them are descended from a few dozen lions that were saved by a prince who took particular interest in them.
But what makes the dog-wolf paradigm especially misleading, Mr Bradshaw argues, is that until recently, the studies of wolves were of the wrong wolves in extremely artificial conditions.
As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape.
Much like how dogs have come from wolves, as humans began to interact with and domesticate wolves, there was no one single point where a wolf gave birth to a dog.