Last night there was a segment on the TV news show 20/20 about shaun Ellis that is basically a lead in to the National Geographic special about him that airs Monday night. The pack of woves that he dealt with were captive and he did appear to have hand raised them because the mother wolf died. He did attempt to interact with the wolves in various captive pack situations. He did from time to time get nipped by the wolves when they were interacting with each other and him. However, to the extent that he got bitten is quite common when handling captive wolves. One thing to point out is that his interaction with the captive pack and his attempts to emulate their behaviors i.e. growls, howls, body posturing, and feeding was done while the wolves were juvenile. In many circumstances humans who have raised wolves in captivity can "get away" with what they think is dominant "Alpha" behavior with juvenile wolves. Once the wolves mature, males at age three and females at age two, and the human tries to act that same way and think that they are still alpha, they'll end up getting severely bitten, maimed, or even killed. that proved to be the case with Mr. Ellis because for some reason he conveniently had to leave the captive pack for an extended period and when he returned the wolves had matured by that time and became severely aggressive with him. He did have to act submissive to prevent from getting himself hurt. And he eplained that the "social order" had changed merely because he had been gone for so long. Now that is real bzdura. The outcome would not have been any different even if he didn't leave. The wolves did reach sexual maturity and because of the dominant aggressive, stupid and moronic way he interacted with them when they were juveniles, they came after him and put him in his place. I agree that this guy is a fake and he will not fool anybody who has worked first hand with captive wolves. A human is not a wolf and there is no way that they think that we are a wolf or are in a pack with them and to further think that humans can teach captive wolves how to hunt with the ultimate intent to re-release them in the wild is even more ludicrous. If I got the National Geographic channel I would watch his special just for the entertainment value but I saw enough on the 20/20 special to know that he knows enough to know how to prevent himself from getting severely hurt, enough to fool the general public but certainly not enough to fool those who have worked extensively with captive wolves.