Dogs and Wolves: Nature or Nurture?

A unique experiment investigates what happens to wolf cub's wild nature if they are raised in a domestic environment. Will nature or nurture win out?

Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points.

Wolves and dogs are 99.8% genetically identical, but is it the genetic differences that affect their behaviour or environmental factors?

A group of Hungarian researchers raised wolf cubs in a home environment to see if they could develop traits similar to a dog.

Unlike dogs, wolf cubs did not respond to training or discipline.

A nurturing, domestic environment had little impact on the wolves' development.

A Twig Context Film.
Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show abstract concepts in action in the real world.