A group of friends at home near a thick wooded area had some fun practicing wolf howls. Only to realize they were howling along with actual wolves.
Here’s the video:
The video starts with one of the women howling like a wolf. She’s clearly standing outdoors, and judging by her jacket, it’s a fairly cold climate. Text on the screen reads, “We thought we heard a pack of wolves, so we were trying to talk to them until…”
Next, the group of women thought that other people might be making the wolf sounds. They even yell out to see who is there in the dark winter night. Eventually, they begin to believe other people are behind the howls and go far enough to accuse the howls of something coming from a “frat bro.”
“They think they’re the wolves and we think they’re the wolves,” one of the women suggests.
However, a short time later, one massive wolf appears at the back door in the snow. Moments later, more of the pack shows up.
The person who posted the video, Rachel Levin, mocked the group with the simple caption: “survival instincts of a grape.”
The group is fortunate to capture video of the entire encounter from the safety of the house.
Wolf Howls
Plenty of folklore around wolves includes the animals howling at the moon and other interactions. However, that is all a myth.
According to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, wolves do howl at night, but they can also howl during the day. The animals use it as a means of communication with their pack. It can be used to start a hunt or to assert which territory belongs to their pack compared to another that may be nearby. Their howls are loud enough to be heard from six to seven miles away.