Where Everything Fights Everything
Spiny nocturnal insectivore that rolls into defensive balls and has become an unlikely video game icon.
Autonomous cleaning device that terrorizes pets and gets stuck under furniture.
The Winner Is
This investigation reveals two predatory systems operating through remarkably parallel strategies yet achieving dominance through fundamentally different mechanisms. Both wolf and social media demonstrate sophisticated pack coordination, efficient target identification, and the capacity to shape collective behaviour across vast scales. The key distinction lies in substrate: one hunts through biological imperative refined over evolutionary time, the other through algorithmic optimisation refined over quarterly earnings cycles.
Social media claims victory in four of five categories: hunting efficiency, pack coordination, territorial dominance, and psychological impact. The platforms' ability to capture human attention with near-perfect reliability, coordinate billions of users simultaneously, control digital territory spanning the globe, and generate novel psychological conditions represents predatory achievement without biological precedent. The wolf, despite its magnificent evolutionary pedigree, simply cannot compete with systems designed specifically to exploit human neurological vulnerabilities.
Yet the wolf's victory in evolutionary resilience deserves careful consideration. The species has weathered transformations that would render current social media platforms archaeological curiosities. When electrical grids fail, server farms flood, or regulatory bodies finally constrain algorithmic manipulation, wolves will continue their ancient hunts across whatever tundra climate change provides. Social media may dominate the present attention ecosystem, but the wolf has demonstrated survival across temporal scales that dwarf human civilisation entirely.