Wolves are known as the largest dog of the canine family. As it is known, there is an estimated amount of 200,000 wolves left in the world. The gray wolf and the red wolf are known as the most common wolf species. Gray wolves are known to be found in Alaska, the Great Lakes region, and the Northern Rockies. The red wolf, mainly found in North America, is currently critically endangered. As of today, in the wild red wolves can only be found in eastern North Carolina Albemarle Peninsula.
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about wolves, they are carnivores. Their diet consists of mainly the animals that they prey on, but they scavenge also and go after other animals that have died over natural causes. Typically, they like to go after bigger animals such as ungulates, but they have been found to eat berries rarely. They eat smaller animals also, such as frogs and rodents. When they attack their prey, they go after the neck, head, and face, until it is dead and the wolf is able to take the carcass to be consumed.
When the alpha's go to mate, they stray off from the pack for a temporary time to not interrupt the other pack members. The male and female bond before they’re about to mate. They sleep close together, nuzzle each others noses, walk with their side against together, there is grooming of each others coats.
After they have mated, the females gestation process will last from fifty nine to sixty three days until she has given birth to usually four to six pups. When the pups are born, they are deaf and blind until about two weeks of age. Than they start to learn to walk, and after about another week, they start to come out of the den. All this time though, they are living only on their mother's milk.
A wolf pack is simply a family of wolves.
The female and male parents of the pack are acknowledged as the alpha’s. The other wolves that make up the group are the younger ones that the alphas bred. The female and male parents are known as alpha because they are more knowledgeable of hunting skills, weather circumstances, and the dangers around them that the others are not aware of yet. Packs could have up to as many as 15 wolves in them, it depends on the abundance of food, and wolf population around them mainly though. They all do much of everything as a group as they are. After a couple to a few years of the cubs being in the group, they stray off and go to find vacant territory and a mate so they could start their own
pack. Wolves are truly interesting animals, there is a lot more to know about them, in all aspects. Feeding is basic knowledge of them, the way of their pack and how they raise their young I personally think is cool to learn more about. The way they mate and make sure each other is wanting to and how they are considerate before and really sweet towards each other is just an amazing connection of animals, I believe. I went over quite about them, but there is always more to come when it comes to the living.