Gray Wolves: The Most Loyal Predators

The most loyal predator
A wolf symbolizes loyalty, guardianship, and trust. Wolves get emotionally attached very fast and often trust their own instinct. Wolves also like the water and can swim and does not hesitate to walk through and icy stream.
Wolves generally lives in a forest. Most gray wolves are in Europe, Canada, Asia, and many live in Alaska. Gray wolves were almost extinct but few survived and reproduced. Gray wolves have been around for 750,000 years, and it migrated to North America from all over the globe. They are carnivores which means they eat meat and wolves hunt large hoofed animals like a deer, mountain goats, elk and bison. A wolf’s behaviour is that it can live alone or live in packs and what that means is that a bunch
of wolves from 6 to 10 live together, hunt together and live together. A wolf that is not with a pack is called “A LONE WOLF”. In a wolf pack, the male alpha and the female alpha can only breed. Breeding only happens between February and April. When a young pup is born in a wolf pack, all wolves raise the young pup and take turns bringing the meal to the pups. After a wolf pup is born, it is blind and deaf for about 12 to 15 days and it is the older wolves to take care of the pup. After a week of opening their eyes the pups may come out the den for the first time and waddle together. At first they live on their mother's milk but after 3 weeks on they start eating meat which is provided by the older wolves. Gray wolves move and hunt mostly at nights, especially in areas populated by humans and has warm weather.
Gray wolves mostly hunt big preys such as deer, elk, moose, bison, caribou, and muskoxen. Gray wolves maintain a small population around the world. In the World Encyclopedia Book page 374-376 by Rolf O. Peterson, said wolves are like large german shepherd dogs. It has longer legs, bigger feet, a wider head and a long bushy tail. He also said that people are scared of wolves and believes that wolves attack people and humans are frightened by the animal´s howl, but the truth is wolves tend to avoid people as much as
possible.
Wolves have a very sharp hearing compared to other predators. Wolves don't choose their alpha only the most strongest wolf becomes the alpha which means he rules the pack. If a stray wolf comes in a pack to which it doesn't belong to the most accurate possibility is that, that stray wolf is not going to come out without injuries. It's a myth that wolves howl at the moon, the reason why wolves howl is because they want to warn other wolves that they stay out their territory. Wolves also howl in a manner of communication when the pack goes hunting. When a pack of wolves are going hunting the alpha male is always ahead and makes plans on how to proceed. Not only is the alpha male the most dominant, the alpha male is also the one that shows the most aggression. Next to the alpha male are other subordinates, what that means is other wolves that are next to the alpha male´s dominance and aggression. These wolves are divided into 3 groups that consists of Omega wolf, Subordinate wolf, and Beta wolf. The omega wolf is at the bottom of all, the wolf is always the last to feed and if the alpha demands it not to eat then the wolf won't eat at all. The other wolves bully the omega wolf. The omega wolf is important to the pack because it helps the pack shoo away other wolves without a war. The Beta wolf is the wolf in line after the alpha male dies. Beta wolf will constantly fight with the pack to show it's dominance over the pack. Beta wolves are only submissive to the alpha male. All other wolves are submissive to the alpha wolf and the beta wolf. The subordinate wolves are not alpha, omega, or beta. Subordinate wolves are just in the middle of the upper rankers. In most cases subordinates are omegas that climbed up the ladder by dominating the other wolves.
Wolves are of course ancestors to our beloved domestic dogs even though wolves are bigger than a normal dog. Wolves and dogs can mate and breed a wolf hybrid. The proper name for a wolf hybrid is a wolfdog. There has been so many debates whether a wolfdog can be a pet just like any normal dog. Most of the majority said that a wolfdog can be kept as a pet but a wolfdog needs more care and more training than the normal dog. Experts need to deal with a wolfdog very delicately and train it. A wolfdog doesn't look like a complete dog but a real wolf and wolf dogs are very adorable just like any other dog or wolf. One wolfdog can be more like a dog but siblings of a wolfdog make up a wolf. When wolfdogs are together in groups they get more confidence and may act violently or maybe their owners can’t control them anymore so the owners tend to give up the pets to shelters. Some shelters won't or hesitate to take back the wolfdog because the shelter thinks or is afraid that once a new family adopts the pet some problems may occur due to the wolfdog’s behaviour. Wolfdogs need just more attention and care than any normal dog because a wolfdog is not just any dog or wolf, it is a breed between two species.
Wolves dont usually mate with other species other than their own but it is in human’s nature to try new thing at anytime possible and from that curiousness we have such enchanted animal walking on the face of earth. Something amazing about wolves are that they can live alone, survive alone, eat alone, and they can also live with a pack which means protecting them at any cost come what may. Wolves cherish their own family more than their own life. When a fight happens between two packs of wolves not only does the alpha male fight but every wolves joins in the fight to protect their territory and their families and the little pups. Wolves are an enchanting creature than any other predator.
Wolves are very hard but also soft animal.
Although wolf attacks do occur but gray wolf attack are very rare because wolves get killed. Wolves don't attack humans as much as other predators do. Wolves are very extremely social animals and they mostly at times feel comfortable around humans and may even play with them. A wolf is very loyal to it's pack, a wolf will never betray it's pack for another wolf. If a lone wolf wants to join the pack it must prove that it is worth of being part of the pack. Wolves fight for upper ranks and to be close to the alpha. A female wolf will only dominate another female wolf and a male wolf will dominate a male wolf they do not cross boundaries. Difference between a male wolf and a female wolf is that males tend to be larger than females. Wolves are usually kept as exotic wolves but in rare cases they are keptas working pets. Wolves do not show as much affection as a domestic
dog.
Wolves are not good been kept as a dog. Wolves are not good at guarding because they are naturally afraid of the unfamiliar place and will hide from strangers instead of barking at them. Wolves run on their toes which allows them to turn quickly without their feet getting tired for a while. In some conditions, wolves can hear as far s six miles in the closed forest and they can hear ten miles in open tundra. Unlike any other animal wolves have facial expressions which they use to communicate and keep a pack unity as the same time. Biologist have found out that wolves will respond to humans imitating their howl. It is said where there are wolves there are ravens (wolf-bird). Ravens follow wolves to eat their left overs from the hunt and they also play with wolves by pecking their tails and getting them to chase.
Wolves are so very social and playful. Wolves can be very adorable if they want to but also dangerous and harmful.