TEOPE, Anton

2017-00567

BS Civil Engineering

Eng 11 THV

Animals

May 27, 2022

Beast vs Beastars

The animal-human divide seen in the Beastars series

Shiba: Guess who Scene:

Wolf: I’m sorry, I’m Scene:
Wolf: I’m telling you…Stay Scene:

nally decided to • Wolf Enters sorry….the waterfall • Switch in the cave with me. We • Change
show up. What took Scene via was farther than I perspective
can live the wild life and go shot to
you so long? Weren’t blurred thought and time kinda • Wolf comes on adventures each day!
focus on
you just gonna have a silhouette slipped passed me.
into focus
Shiba: ehh…it’s ok. I’m bush

bath and head here Shiba: Waterfall huh?… • Shiba good here
• Wolf and
right after? Sounds like fun… silhouettes Wolf: Yeah…knew you’d shiba in the
seen turn it down. Why though? background

Shiba: You see that Scene:

Shiba: And have you Scene:

ball and feeding dish? • Change shot looked at me at • Shot back to

They’re modern to food dish me?….I’m a ball of u shiba’s face with
marvels…..advanced and ball that wouldn’t even wolf silhouette
doggy technologies. know how to hunt for blurred seen in
We domestic dogs my own meals let alone the foreground
have gotten used to live in the wild
this lifestyle and the completely.

things we have that I Wolf: Fair point…but

can’t possibly live in our ancestors probably
the wild. I’m so look down at what
divided from nature dogs have become

that I might as well be Shiba: Well…I’m not

considered a man the one that’s extinct
made creation. now, am I?
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 Description:
The panels portrays of the meetings between the Shiba and the wolf. Modern dogs like
Shibas are nor really capable of living in the wold since their adaptations have been fine-tuned to
be well fitted in the cities /human environments. If I’m not mistaken, many dogs today even have
a selective diet in which certain foods can cause problems for them. The Shiba explains how his
domesticated life essentially made him reliant on todays things like how I am reliant on my
devices and modern things and how stuff like camping or living off the grid is just unimaginable
to me. I think this doesn’t just describe me but likely a large percentage of the world today. It
draws parallels on how everyone relies on technology and modern inventions to get through life
and how we would be useless if it were to disappear.

Additional information:
Modern (gray) wolves may not have been the direct ancestors of modern dogs (Theory as
of now) but are descendants of the same wolf species that dogs may have descended from (hence
the last dialogue). This is still just a theory however. See image below.

Reference:
Skoglund, P. (2015, June 1). Ancient Wolf Genome Reveals an Early Divergence of Domestic
Dog Ancestors and Admixture into High-Latitude Breeds. ScienceDirect. Retrieved May 27,
2022, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215004327