Can these morons at least play with the wolves outdoors? Bring some heaters if it’s cold. This looks horrible for the wolves. Where are they kept? This looks awful.

The shown room is NOT where the wolfs are kept.
But the whole project shows, that these scientists have no experience in working with animals and knowledge of how intelligent animals in general are. sadly that most people has been decoupled from nature and thinks that we are some totally different entity.

It's amazing what 50 miles can create of difference. Well, our rivers run in the direction of the USA and the wolves here breed with local dogs and here they make puppies. These puppies are raised as half breed puppies and we know well how they behave - just like dogs, but you certainly see that they are wolves. We stop that they can make puppies and can *not* breed. But on this side of the border, right close to Oslo, they survive as farm dogs that will fetch a stick or a ball. They will often chase wild game and sheep but are not "hunting dogs". The problem is children with the semi-wolves. Their blood is that of wolves still. The inbreeding of wolves, also where wolves in nature originate from a domestic dog exists on the American side of the border. It is very common, and we take it for granted that the same happens at their side of the fence. There is no physical red line that marks the border, and wolves to not carry passports. But they are welcomed. There is a train service to Oslo. Get off the ride before the main station and walk back to Sweden for 10 miles, and they are in an area of wolves that has litters with domestic dogs and domestics dogs have made cubs with the wolves.

I think we can still learn a lot and of course not only from the wolves! Animals still surprise me every day.

Do subordinate wolves bring items to their superiors in a pack?

I have to assume that these scientists spent their whole existence cloistered in some book library room. They must never have watched documentaries about wolves in the wild. Their pups are often shown playing at retrieving things and returning them to the parents. Also when I was a teenager many years ago there was a man in our suburban neighbourhood who had found 2 timber wolf pups near deaths door while on a hunting trip and brought them home. His intention was to raise them and release them back to the wild. When he tried that they refused to leave him. In the end he kept them as pets. These 2 animals, both males, were the as gentile as any domestic dog but were fierce watch dogs when needed.
I wonder how much money, that could have been spent on more beneficial research, was wasted on this.

They are nothing more than a wild or (feral) dog. just like baby foxes. They are friendly. Even wildcats and mountain lions domestically raised exhibit SOME domestic traits. One HUGE cat is on exhibition even near my house. (Scary looking - but "friendly"). The scientists have to get out more. But - You can't forget that they will always be wild, potentially dangerous, and you have to respect that. Unless you have a REAL good hospital policy... Or like having you face taken off.

It's a natural part of dog/wolf development for puppies to play. Like all kids, some prefer one type of game to another. I think these behavioural ecologists need to learn what comes natural, before they get surprised by it.

Where do these so called scientist think dogs came from?

Seems like a repeat of the domestication of foxes by Russian scientists in the late 1950s.