Matt Johnson sagt:
> 2)The Vargr Sex issue is interesting from a behavioural ecology and
> animal psychology point of view and as it directly concerns Vargr I
> feel it is relevant. The hormonal thing is a valid point..but Vargr
> have had thousands of years. It must be remembered that the vargr do
> not STILL mark out their territory by urination or gland scent
> markings..they have signs and alarms and starcraft. To the vargr,
> this question is the same as saying what would happen if we humans
> were in the same room as a chimp in "heet" ( oestrus ). Nothing. The
> more sensitive noses may detect a musky smell..but not a lot else.
Are you SURE that they don't use those scent glands they have? If so,
why not? Humans don't use scent signals, because humans are
comparatively scent blind. Vargr may or probably won't mark by urination
according to culture, but you can bet that a Vargr's stateroom is going
to smell like that vargr weither they mark it in that fashion or not.
The smell of a vargr on one's territory is still gonna be a psychological
factor, conciously or unconciously.
As to the question of vargr use of dogs, mightn't that be a source of
low tech perfume? I'd think that Vargr would make use of specially
bred dogs in a similar fashion as whales that were hunted for ambergris.
The scent is bound to be close, and if bred carefully, the dog might
yield the proper scent cues.
I'd also point out that there are only 300,000 years for evolution to
have any effect. And that is a blink of an eye for evolution. The major
differences between Vargr and wolves, are going to be the ones engineered
into them, and those are kind of unknown when it comes to their effects
on psychology. 'Cause who knows what the Ancients were REALLY trying to
achieve and how well they actually did it.
Scott 2G Kellogg