Modern Wolf Behaviors

The Canadian wolf can look many different ways.They can grow anywhere from 2-3 feet tall. The Wolf has fur and claws. When you think of a wolf, you can compare it to a dog. The teeth are just like a dog’s teeth. The Wolf’s tail is just like the rest of it’s body, fluffy and soft. A wolf is most likely to have blue or brown eyes. A wolf has four short legs, but they can run fast. The male can weigh anywhere from 70 lbs- 200 lbs. The female weighs about 50 lbs- 100 lbs.

The gray wolf are a great type of animal with ancestry you wouldnt think they had. The wolves is what made to be the domestic dogs of now. Fish back then being now a ground walking soecies. They were small and evolved to being big.

It was also common for the Wolves to be bred with dogs, in order to get a breed of dog with the strength of a wolf but the calmness and loyalty of a dog.

Did you know that people HATED wolves in the 1800’s ? But now people want to protect them, in North Carolina and Alaska it is illegal to hunt wolves. There used to be 2 million gray wolves but now there is 200 thousand. People would pay for hunters to kill gray wolves.

Secondary data on the number of successful and unsuccessful wolf reintroduction programs can be gathered from state and federal wildlife management agencies from the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. Collection of the same information from environmental organizations, and other local groups who study predator species is also important to determine if data on wolf reintroduction show similar numbers. If methods of data collection are similar but each has different outcomes, the level of bias should be minimal. Reports on loss of livestock from farmers, ranchers, and hunting groups should also be analyzed and compared with the numbers reported to state and federal agencies. Another piece of secondary data critical to this research

Wolves and coyotes are very smart animals. They have extremely good eyesight and sense of smell. They can hear calls from very far away and they both have dog-like appearance, but although wolves and coyotes are very similar physically, they have very little in common in terms of social behavior.

Farmers don’t want wolves in their property because they are having fear about protection of their livestock. Their stance is understandable but their revenge on against gray wolves is too harsh. According to PBS, During a fifteen year period, because of natural cause like bad weather, killed 20000 to 100000 of livestock and only less than 5000 of livestocks killed because of wolves. But more than 1000 of wolves were killed for their revenge. This harsh attitude towards wolves is leading to killing all of the gray wolves like starting anti-wolf campaign. However, wolves are useful for the eco system. Even the gray wolves have important role to balancing the eco system, many people (in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho) do not want wolves and don’t see their importance. Most of time, the Federal government usually feels the duty to decide what is right with total widespread opposition. But the state government try to listen the people’s wishes. For this reason, Federal government and State government has difficulty to work together. But in my opinion, When different levels of government have different audiences and different priorities, it has a strong point of them to collaborate. The conflict between the different levels of government will make to come up with a better and best solution. In this case, without the Federal government , many species would already be extinct.

1. The wolf is a pack animal. What does it mean to be a pack animal?

I will be telling you more about how the domestication of wolves was an important point in history(Important Idea #1. This will be explained in Paragraph 2),

In this essay I will be informing readers about the history of the wolf in the western part of the United States, the wolf’s status as an endangered species, and its effect on the ecosystem and what we as humans can do to manage it.

Wolves are amazing creatures that stack up to be more than your average canine. Wolves can stake claim to territories recorded to be over 800 miles. Average wolf packs usually consist of 8-10 wolves, but one Denali pack recorded 27 members plus 3 pups. They have the ability to hunt caribou, moose, Dall sheep, beaver, and ground squirrel. They use howling and scent marking to scare of rival packs. They also show us their rank in the pack by the position in which they carry their tale. They accomplish all this with a brain twice the size of a domestic dog, and extremely developed social skills. Not only are these wolves the most famous in the world, one group is the world’s oldest known family lineage of any nonhuman social vertebrate in the wild.

There are several theories on how the evolution from wolf to dog came about. One theory is that the human environment attracted wolves. Wolves started following people around to take advantage of food scraps that were left behind. Eventually, wolves lost fear of people, and people lost fear of wolves. The benefits of this new relationship were not just one way. Wolves also helped humans by sniffing out prey and helping them hunt. Success likely meant the humans would share their food with wolves. This is a very popular theory, but it has been disputed. Archeological digs show that the early dogs were not eating the same mammoth meat that the humans were eating. Instead, their main diet consisted mostly of less popular human meat such as reindeer. The prehistoric dogs also had many broken teeth and severe facial wounds. Although these injuries could be from fighting with other dogs, many scientists believe the dogs had been beaten with sticks, leading many to assume the relationship between man and prehistoric dog was not as companionable as the theory would suggest.

The wolf is a beautiful creature that hunts for food. Two classes are in every pack

Introduction There have been serious issues with the lethal control of wolves (Canis lupus) that kill livestock. This control of wolf populations nearly led to their extinction in the 1960s. As a result, wolves were protected in the United States by the Endangered Species Act of 1973. At this time, there were 700-950 wolves in northern Minnesota and a small population on Isle Royale, Michigan. The population in Minnesota has drastically increased to the point that they were removed from the Endangered Species List in March 2007.

This happens because baying dogs appear as an attacker to wolves, causing them to go on the defense. The best solution would be not to use hunting dogs, but this option is exceedingly undesirable.