@Ryanx & co, I think you're missing my point here. (...)
Sorry, I was one step ahead.^^
This is fiction – I thought that was answered already.
I tried to look up something there for you, but I do not know in which book it is written anymore – and I have other stuff to do atm. That is why I did not search to long.
But NO – this is fiction and you are right with your assumption.
You can tell by – that all the natives talk differently.
May's native do not talk like Cooper's.
That is like May from the books:
"Ryan of the Colognians tried to look up something for you, but my brother Shtajerc has to wait many moons, till Ryan might return with a source of an eye-witness who wrote down how American natives talk.
Does my brother Shtajerc, know the bottom of the page where he finds what the English call number and the Slovene people call stevilka? There he will find the thread again."
So it is totally made up and still a stereotype in the US because they had multiple traffic languages in that century and not everybody spoke English.
So if you talk natives translators are right around the corner.
They talked like you said.
Humans can be particularly well integrated into wolf packs. Don't think Mougli is the only example of this (a literary one), but uncontable number of individuals lived through that real experience
No. This is the same myth. Same mechanics at work like that native talk.
That story only works with people who do not know natives or people who do not know wolfs.
That is not only people in far away countries – the people in the Canadian woods are not the experts on wolfs.
The guys who study wolfs are the experts on wolfs and while they might travel the Canadian woods they are not living on hick-county knowledge.
That stories always come from places, where people run not on the latest education level.
Might it be the backwoods of India, Africa, Russia or South America. That is where such stories come from.
You can not eat what wolfs eat. They can not feed you.
If wolfs would adopt you – they would require to know that you are a human.
Because if they play by wolf-rules they would kill you.
So they integrate you into a pack – but on the other hand do not think you are a wolf?
But let's say wolfs would be like that – don't you think that should happen more often, with more species?
Like with coyotes or dogs or at least other dog-like animals – that would be much easier to integrate than a totally different species? Here comes the catch: They kill them all on sight, they even eat humans - but here for miracle reasons they behaved not like wolfs.
Wolfs do form up friendships if they do not have a pack. So it can happen that you have the cross-species relationships. All social animals do this. Even lions (and they are cats).
But here we do have a pack existing.
So one wolf is no problem But two wolfs already – play by pack rules.
Do you know pack rules? If you would need to take a pee in a forest – would you do it?
That is how one wolf-biologist nearly got killed himself in the habitat of wolfs he raised by hand.
So you have to learn on your own, how to get food. You have to learn the wolf ways and you have to protect yourself, as you can not hide in the den like a baby-wolf when a leopard or bear or a lynx comes.
What is the pack good for you? Why are you even staying with wolfs?
They have thousands of parasites on them.
So if you are not a suicidal fur-fetishist there is no reason for you staying with predators of any kind in the wild – because it makes your life more complicated than better and by complicated I mean life-threatening.
And before you are in the situation that the pack protects you against a tiger or bear or wolverine – you died by branch falling from tree on your head in the jungle – or cold in the north.
That pack is for hunting to obtain food and not for protecting weak species that bring in zero advantage for anybody. Specifically wolfs consider everything three times before taking an action.
But on humans they would waste their ressources? True Christian animals. The church had it all wrong.^^ You know what I mean?
Is being fooled like the natives talk. That there is even one guy on the North-American continent who thinks that Americans do have problems speaking the language of the United States – even as a stereotype – is totally irrational. That should not even be a rumor or something they should be associated with.
Like you do know that wolfs are top end predators and every meat you eat is cooked for you.
You do not even have to know that Kipling gave Mowgli a natural scientific perception that goes on confrontation with the village people who believe in supernatural stuff (read the book - it is a really good one - it even got songs - very smart ones - the monkey song is my fave, as I do have to support my kind) .
Or that there is no expert on any animal on that planet – that will advise you to live with animals they do study and love.
Here Goodall f.e. is a gigantic Tarzan fan and the same person who explained to the world that this does not work in reality. No human baby can be raised by chimpanzees.
It is all Uri Geller if you hear or read such stories.