The wolverine is a warm blooded mammal and is the largest member of the weasel family. Wolverines weigh about 60 pounds‚ they are about 35 inches long‚ are about 12 inches high and have a 10 inch long bushy tail. What do they look like? Where they live? The wolverine lives lives in the Boreal Forest that spans the northern regions of Russia‚ Scandinavia‚ Canada and Alaska. They also live in the tundra and western mountains. Wolverines appear to live in remote mountainous areas because there is lease
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The wolf is a very important animal that should not be hunted. The wolf is a very important animal because the are so helpful and keep the herbivores from becoming too large. If there were no predators then all of the herbivores would get too large and eat all the grass‚then no one would survive. Most of the wolves live in Yellowstone Wyoming. The largest wolf pack in the world is the Druid wolf pack. One of the reasons why I don’t want wolves to be hunted is because in 1934 the wolves in Wisconsin
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Gray wolf Where the animal is: Habitat: The gray wolf habitat‚ in the past‚ included areas as varied as deserts of Egypt and the bone chilling‚ icy tundras. The gray wolf is as adaptable as man; it is no wonder that the habitat of the gray wolf is spread all over the world. The Great Plains Wolf‚ which is a subspecies of the gray wolf‚ is a native to the gray wolf habitats in North America. It is also known as the buffalo wolf or the Eastern timber wolf. Once‚ these gray wolves dominated
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parks ecosystem. After a nearly 70 year absence‚ in January of 1995‚ 14 wolves from separate packs were captured in the Canadian Rockies and transported to Yellowstone National Park in the states of Wyoming‚ Montana and Idaho (Sanders par. 2). The Canis Lupus or more commonly known as the gray wolf is the largest wild member in the Canine family. While once covering vast areas of the North American and European continent‚ the grey wolf was hunted to near extinction in the 1900’s due to mostly folk
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Nichols-Felan 1 Sandy Nichols-Felan Professor Caroline McNutt Biology 104 15 June 2011 This paper is about the Isle Royal Gray Wolf Population. This paper will discuss when the Gray Wolf first appeared there‚ their population when they were first studied‚ how the numbers have remained in check‚ the importance of the Moose population as it impacts the number of the Gray Wolves‚ their current population number and what has caused their population decline‚ what is being considered to
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Morphological comparisons between wolves and domestic dogs have narrowed the likely ancestral subspecies of gray wolf to Middle Eastern and South Asian wolves.[22] This is confirmed by SNP studies done in 2010‚ which point to the Middle East as the source of most of the genetic diversity in the domestic dog and the most likely origin of domestication events.[16] The actual process undergone in domesticating the wolf is still debated. Although it is popularly assumed that dogs originated as a result
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During the middle ages‚ Europe was under the dark shadows of ignorance and superstition and their towns were underdeveloped and lived near the woods‚ so they always feared wolf attacks. They feared leaving their village and would find human limbs in their fields. The first recorded Werewolf sighting took place around the countryside of German town Colongne and Bedburg in 1591.Few people cornered a large wolf and set their dogs upon it. They started to pierce it with sharp sticks and spears. Surprisingly
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The Wolf has a rather interesting history to the nation of the U.S. “The moment the first wolf faced its fear and stepped into the circle of light cast by man’s fire has been lost in time. In that now obscure moment‚ the history of man and wolf was forever changed.” (A History of Wild Wolves in the United States.) For centuries native people of America have depicted wolves in their art telling great stories‚ some of which man and wolf are joined as one powerful creature. Many Natives believe and
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Saving a Species “Go back to California!”‚ is just one of the many things supporters of the Mexican Gray Wolf reintroduction program were hearing at a meeting about “predators” in Alpine this February. Over three hundred people were in attendance and only a handful of people were supporters of these dog sized predators. They sat quietly listening to everyone bash the most endangered mammal in North America (Corrigan). The Mexican Gray Wolf is about the size of a German Shepherd‚ four to five
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The scientific classification for the fox is Vulpes. They are closer to dogs in modern classification because they are in the same biological family‚ canidae. The family includes other dog type creatures such as wolves‚ coyotes and jackals. Some people say that foxes are very so similar/genetically related to dogs that they can produce offspring together‚ but still isn’t proven yet. On the other hand‚ the cats are in a complete different biological family. The cats are in the family felidae‚ which
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