Do wolves (or dogs) have a state?

Are states natural only to humans? If they are natural individualisation mechanisms, do animals (which, like humans, have been biologically created and are not artificial) also have states? (As far as non-biological Beings are concerned, organisations are individualised by humans after they have been created (for example, in business registries or government gazettes etc.) but, for the moment at least, artificial Beings (specifically, computer programs; different is the case with money and language) are not.) From an informational point of view, all pack animals have states: their pack is their state. Within it each individual can be uniquely identified by the others, and the pack itself is also distinguishable from any other. While individualisation tasks are performed, for instance, within a wolf state, what is important to note is the method of individualisation. In this case it is by smell or the other natural characteristics of each wolf, and not by language, that is, a name, as is the case for humans. Natural characteristics, however, are an inadequate means of individualisation in view of their limitations: first, we are not certain that they are actually unique (for each of the thousands of wolves on earth, not to mention the billions that have walked the planet). Second, each individual in the pack (i.e. each wolf) can presumably only remember so many (i.e. packs are composed of only a few dozen individuals at most), so it may, for example, know that another wolf does not belong to its pack but it cannot know to which pack it belongs (or, to go further, identify it individually within that other pack). Similarly, communication is certainly possible among wolves, but only on rudimentary, survival-related topics.

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