Fast Facts
Gray wolf
This is how wolf's roll
What are the risks?
Extra credit
100
They are meat eating carnivore.
What is their diet?
100
They use a spine-tingling howl?
What is the wolf's way of communicating?
100
Wolfpacks are established with a dominant male at the top and his mate not far behind.
What is the strict hierarchy of the wolf?
100
They have a long history of hunting and trapping wolves.
What is a major threat to the wolf?
100
It was actually a type of gray wolf.
What is Egyptian golden jackal?
200
They live up to 6 to 8 years.
What is their average life span?
200
The gray wolves are by far the most common and were once found all over the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the largest members of the dog family.
200
They are the only animals of the pack to breed.
Who is the dominant male & female of the pack?
200
This causes the wolf populations can become isolated, inbred, and more susceptible to disease.
What is the division of the wilderness?
200
It is 100 times stronger than humans.
What is the wolf's sense of smell?
300
They're head and bodies are long as 36 in. to 63 in. and a tail that can range from 13 to 20 inches.
What is the wolf's size?
300
They are known to roam large distances, perhaps 12 miles (20 kilometers) in a single day.
What is a wolf's traveling distance?
300
They help to care for young pups by bringing them food and watching them while some hunt.
What is all the pack's adults?
300
It can be as high as 60%, and starvation is one of the main causes of natural death.
What is the pups mortality rate?
300
They are larger than coyote tracks.
What is the wolf's tracks?
400
They can become to 40 to 175 lbs.
What is the wolf's weight?
400
The gray wolf is typically an apex predator throughout its range, with only humans and tigers posing a serious threat to it.
What is a wolf's threat?
400
Wolves live in groups of six to ten animals.
What is a pack?
400
Territory fights with other wolves and scuffles with large prey.
What is the cause of the wolf's injury and death?
400
Not much is known about wolves’ ability to perceive color, but one experiment found that they can detect red and yellow more easily than blue or green.
What is a wolf's ability to see color?
500
They are known as to be endangered right now.
What is the wolf's protection status?
500
Although the fear of wolves is prevalent in many human societies, the majority of recorded attacks on people have been attributed to animals suffering from rabies. Non-rabid wolves have attacked and killed people, mainly children, but this is unusual, as wolves are relatively few, live away from people, and have been taught to fear humans by hunters and shepherds.
What is the wolf's attacking history?
500
They prefer large animals such as deer, elk, and moose but they would also eat smaller mammals, birds, fish, lizards, snakes, and fruit.
What is the wolf's menu?
500
This has forced wolves to move closer to developed areas in search of food.
What is the human destruction of the wolves habitat?
500
It now shows that domestic dogs, once thought to be bred from a mix of canids, is in fact descended solely from gray wolves.
What is DNA sequencing?
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