Posts that support strong women are not unusual on social media.
One, an article that claims that female werewolves of abusers, has been shared more than 31,000 times on Facebook since May.
It also includes a photo of a woguy getting a guy to pull out a gun hidden in his lower back to shoot an armed assailant. “Make sure you have the right one in your corner,” she says, using female wolves as an example of how women can protect their male counterparts.
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The symbol is genuine and was taken over by Minnesota photographer Jean Paul with an undeniable legend indicating that a wolf fight is taking place. Paul originally uploaded the photo to Flickr in 2009; has now had more than 29,000 visits. Legend has taken it in Ely, Minnesota.
In comments since then, Paul notes that this picture, his favorite, “has had a constant stream of visitors from an ‘unknown source,'” so he left his call on the picture.
The symbol claim comes from Reddit and was published in 2016, according to Snopes. com.
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But don’t stop by to check it out – this original post deleted via subreddit moderators r / wolves, according to a note left there.
Cameron Feaster, a wolf specialist at the International Wolf Center, also in Ely, Minnesota, was interviewed through Snopes and said the three wolves in the photo were male.
The claim that “a wolf” the throat of the male wolf is therefore false.
He told Snopes that the photo was possibly taken when one wolf subsidized and hit another.
The photo was also posted on Imgur’s online photo page in 2016 and has been viewed more than 9,000 times. In the commentary segment of the image, some other people commented that the story that the wolf protects the male wolf is false.
We compare this as FAUX, based on our research. According to one expert, the wolves photographed are all males. The symbol does not represent a woguy protecting a man from attack.
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