Boltz – The Chin Rest

A common dominance position involves a chin rest, where one wolf rests their chin on another wolf either to reinforce their rank as a dominant animal, or to gain some status. In this week’s picture of Boltz, it’s the latter. Aidan had been greeting and rolling over for wolf care staff when Boltz decided to take this opportunity to try and gain some status over the dominant male. We’ll likely see more of these behaviors as he tries to test for rank this upcoming winter, ‘tis the season for testing.