StormWolf & KinshipCode
I was watching wolves coordinate a hunt and thought about how some remote tribes use kin ties to plan their hunts. Have you ever noticed patterns in how they map that out?
Yeah, I’ve seen that—wolves are like living kinship diagrams in motion. In the tribes I’ve studied, the hunters are often arranged in a kind of “hunt‑sociogram.” The eldest male, or the matriarch in matrilineal groups, will usually be the “prime mover,” and the next generation follows in a sort of linear chain that looks almost like a tree on a napkin. The nodes are cousins, uncles, aunts, and even in-laws, and the edges are the shared responsibilities: scouting, ambush, flank, and so on. It’s fascinating how the same relational logic that determines marriage taboo also shapes the hunt’s choreography. When I draw it out, it almost looks like a puzzle that tells you who will call which flank at the exact second—just like those ancient kinship charts we study.