the gray wolf. I have taken most of the facts that I have learned and
mixed them with the facts that I already knew about wolves. Here are
some of the facts that I have gathered together to make a website. I
hope you like it!
The Gray Wolf, (Canis lupus) also known as Timber Wolf is the largest of
around 41 wild species in the dog family, Canidae. Wolves normally hunt
for theirs and their f and their babies at night. Wolves normally hunt large
hoofed mammals. They eat a lot of different types of animals. Some of the
things that they eat include caribou, deer, moose, and elk. Sometimes they
eat other things like berries, beavers, fish, insects, and birds. Wolves
normally go for the animals that are either really young, really old, or animals
that are weaker members of the wolf population. Some people think that all
wolves will attack a human if they see one. That is not true. The unhealthy
wolves are the ones that would attack a human. Healthy wolves would
rarely ever attack a human. Wolves used to live all over North America, but
now they only mainly live in the upper states of the U.S. and in Canada.
Gray wolves mate for their whole entire life. They live in packs between the
sizes of two to over fifteen wolves in each pack. Even though they can
have from two to fifteen wolves in a pack, there are normally only four
to seven wolves in them. The strongest male member of a pack is who the
leader is. The leader of a pack is the one that decides where the other
wolves will hunt for food. The wolf pack territories can cover anywhere
from one hundred to two hundred and sixty square miles, that all depends
on where they get their food from and where they get their water from.
Some wolves can leave their pack and go out on their own. Wolves that do
that it are called lone wolves. Lone wolves are able to start their own new
pack if they find a mating wolf and a large vacant area.
A wolves breeding season can go from January to April. Their
breeding season can alter from spring through summer to autumn through
winter. By the time it hits autumn, wolf pups are capable of traveling for
very long distances with the adults. Normally only the highest ranking male
and female that is in a group are the ones that will breed. Even though the
highest-ranking wolves are the ones that have the baby wolves, all of the
other wolves in the pack are expected to help out with raising the young.
The gestation period for a wolf in sixty-three days.
Things that affects a wolf includes things like, being killed by
humans, being killed by other wolves, getting diseases, dying from
parasites, starvation, and injuries by prey. Most wolves only live up to
ten years in the wild.
Description of wolves.
The Gray wolf can be anywhere between twenty-six to thirty-eight
inches in height, and from thirty-nine all the way up to eighty inches in
length. The weight of a wolf ranges from fifty-seven to one-hundred and
thirty pounds. Wolves have rounded ears These mammals’ coats can be
four different colors. It can be either grey, white, brown, or black. They
can also have all four of these colors!
Did you know?
Did you know that gray wolves travel greater distances than any other
land mammal except the caribou? Did you know that wolves’ feet are
very large? Their feet can be from four inches to five inches long. In
captivity wolves can live up to sixteen years.
Wolves have forty-two teeth. When wolf cubs are born they
weigh about one pound and they cannot see or hear anything. A wolf
that is in a hurry can go up to thirty-five miles but for only a short
distance. I have a favorite fact about wolves. My favorite fact about
wolves that a lot of people do not normally know is that wolves cannot
die from rabies! Yeah I said it, wolves can’t die from rabies, they can
pass it on to other mammals that are not in the wolf family, but they
can’t die. I think that that trait about wolves is really cool because I
have a wolf, and one time when she was outside in my back yard her
and a raccoon got in a fight and if she ended up getting rabies, it
wouldn’t matter.
Click on the
wolf pup above!!