My Name: Nicole Hattrich
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The wolf is one of the largest members of the dog family. They are expert hunters in large hoofed animals. Such as: 1)caribou, 2)elk, 3)deer, and 4)moose. Human beings fear a wolf. The human beings think that the wolf will attack them and their eerie howl frightens them. Wolves avoid human people as much as possible. The wolf belongs to a species called the gray wolf and the tundra wolf. The timber wolf lives in a wooded, subartic regions. The tundra wolf lives on the treeless lain of the Artic. Zooligist believe there are another species of the wolf called the red wolf. The red wolf lices in Louisian and Texas. The red wolf is almost extinct. The wolf can lice in any kind of climate. The wolves are usually found in deserts or tropical forests. The wolf roamed throughout the northern half of the world in anicent times. When large numbers of people settle, they destroyed the wolves. The wolf have disappeared from many of these areas. Most wolves today live in sparsely populated northern regions. Such as 1)Alaska, 2)Minnesota, 3)Canada, 4)China, and 5)Russia. Wolves of small numbers still inhabit wilderness areas. Such as 1)Greece, 2)India, 3)Mexico, 4)Spain, and 5)other countries.
Wolves look like German Shepard dogs. The wolf has larger legs, bigger feet, a wider head, and a long bushy tail. An adult pamle wolf wighs 75 to 120 pounds (34 to 54 kilgrams). The wolf measures from 5 to 6 1/2 feet (1.5 to 2 meters) long, that includes the tail. The tail is 2 1/2 feet (76 centimenters) tall. The female wolf is smaller than the male wolf.
The wolf fur varies in the different locations of a wolf. The color varies from pure white on the Arctic plains to jet black in the subartic forest. Some wolves have a fur the color of gray. The fur of a wolf of northern and Artic regions are long, thick winter coats that protect them from the bitter cold.
The wolf has a keen sense of smell, fine hearing and has excellent vision. The three senses help the animal locate prey/ The wolf can smell and see a animal more that a mile (1.6 kilometers) away.
The average wolf has 42 teeth that includes 4 fangs at the front of the mouth. The fans are used to wound, grab, and kill prey. The fans can be measured up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) long from tip to root. The small teeth at the front are used to pull at and nibble at the skin. The sharp teeth at the side cut through the tough muscle easily. The flat teeth att he back crush thick bone so the bone can be swallowed easily.
Wolves have a large stomach, and they can eat up to 20 pounds (9 kilograms) of food at once. The wolf can go without food for 2 weeks or longer.
Packs is where wolves live in a family group. Packs usually have 8 members. Some of theh packs may have 20 members. Zoologists say the members of the pack remain together. The reason they do is that wolves have strong affection to each other in the pack. Wolves leave the pack and become a lone wolf. A lone wolf travels alone and finds food by itself.
A wolf pack has social order. The social order is called dominance hierarchy. Each member has a certain rank. The high-ranking members are called dominant wolves. The low-ranking members are called subordinate wolves. Every time they meet, the donimate wolf and the subordinate wolf show their rank. The higher ranker wolf stands erect, holds the tail aloft, and points its ears up and forward. The wolf may show its teeth and growl. The low-ranking wolf holds its tail between the legs, crouches, and turns their ears dow. The low-ranking wolf whines instead of growling.
The territory is where a pack lives in a specific area. The size of the territory depends of the availability of the prey. The pack claims its territory by its scent. The pack leader urinates on objects in the boundary of the territory.
The reason people hates the wolf because the wolf kills other animals. Wolves kills sheeps, cows, and other livestock to provoke farmers and ranchers. Hunters hates wolves because the wolf kills game animals. Such as: 1)antelope, and 2)deer. Hunters mistakenly think that the wolf will wipe out the game in certain areas that they hunt in. Folklore has participated in the wolf's reputation. Old sayings tht the wolf is an animal that symbols of badness or evil.
The fear of wolves led people to destroy big numbers of them. Organized hunts have kileed thousands of wolves in the USA. Rewards have been offered for their pelts. From 5,000 to 15,000 have been killed in Alaska in the late 1970's. About 1,200 wolves are living in the USA. Most of them are living in Minnesota. The USA government has classified the wolf as an endangered species in all the states except Alaska and Minnesota. In Minnesota, the wolf is classified as a threatened species.
Variations in color within a pack are common. A German zoologist said a wolf possesses sharper vision, hearing and smell than a domestic dog. Wolf scat is filled with hair and bone chips they consume from prey. Wolves can catch over a hundred diseases and parasites. Also, the wolves can catch various protozoa, roundworms, tapeworms, flat-worms, mange, mites, ticks, fleas, distemper, cataracts, oral papillomatosis, tularemia, trichnosis, bovine TB, encephalitis, arthritis, brucellosis, cancers, rickets, pneumonia, Lyme disease, and other ailments. Wolves contain the above ailments if they come in contact with a domestic dog.
A wolf pack is an extended family unit. Wolf packs contains 4-7 wolves. The largest wolf pack consisted of 36 members, and the pack lived in Alaska.
| Description | Wolf | Coyote |
|---|---|---|
| General build | large | medium-sized |
| Legs | very long legged | legs of normal length |
| Height | 26-38" | 23-26" |
| Weight | 40-175 lbs. | 20-40 lbs. | ,P.
| Color | gray, tan, brown, black relatively common, white uncommon | gray, tan, brown, black very rare, white very rare |
| Muzzle | squared | pointed |
| Ears | rounded, relatively short | pointed, relatively long |
| Feet | very large | normal size |
The above table and some of the above information came from The Wolf Almanac by Robert H. Busch.
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