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Living with the Pack

Like Duolingo, but for Living with the Pack. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

26 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Wally the Wanderer
Living with the Pack
with Wally the Wanderer
26
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Living with the Pack

  • Howling acts as a beacon for location
  • Howling signals territory boundaries
  • Sound travels over long distances
  • Acoustic communication avoids physical confrontations
  • Howls strengthen social bonds and coordination within the pack
  • Howling functions as a long-distance GPS
  • Howls communicate different messages depending on the listener
  • Avoiding physical conflict between packs
  • Distinguishing between the internal and external functions of a howl
  • Dominant wolves hold their tails high or horizontally to signal confidence
  • Leaders keep their ears pointed forward and upright to show alertness and authority
  • Tucking the tail reduces the wolf's profile to signal non-aggression
  • Flattening ears is a key signal used to appease more dominant pack members
  • Identifying the visual markers of high social status in a wolf pack
  • Mapping specific body signals to their social meanings
  • Lower tail positions indicate lower social rank or submission
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Living with the Pack the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

The Long-Distance Beacon

If a wolf loses its way during a hunt, what is the main goal of its long, lonely howl?

Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.

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Where Living with the Pack takes you

Discover how wolves survive and thrive by putting the family first. Learn to read their body language and understand the secret social lives of these legendary predators.

  1. 1

    Speak Like a Wolf

    • What a Howl Really Means
    • Reading Tail and Ear Signals
    • The Scent of a Stranger
    • Play Bows and Puppy Talk
  2. 2

    The Strength of the Family

    • Who is Really in Charge?
    • Babysitting the Pups
    • How a Pack Hunts Together
    • Sharing the Meal
    • Defending the Home Turf
    • When a Wolf Leaves Home
  3. 3

    The Wolf's Place in the World

    • How Wolves Change Rivers
    • From Wild Wolf to Best Friend
    • The Truth Behind the Fairy Tales

3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

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Living with the Pack is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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