Wolves Vs Mammalia

Gray wolf Vs. Red wolf Have you ever seen the two majestic wolves? Their names are Gray wolf and Red wolf. The Red wolf and the Gray wolf has a lot of similarities and differences. These two wolves live in forest A Gray wolf has a long bushy tail often

Pack animals live in a groups usually numbering six to ten individuals, they are predators and hunt as a pack. In essence a pack is a family of animals, within the group there is a breeding pair commonly known as the alpha male and alpha female and their offspring from various litters.

The Canis Lupus or more commonly known as the 5). While in the acclimation pens the wolves were fed a diet of elk and other road kill with wolves typically consuming 21 to 32 pounds of meat in a single feeding. In March of 1995, three of the packs were released in Yellowstone, but with one issue; the wolves refused to exit through the gate because they had associated it with humans, forcing the park rangers to cut a hole in the side of the enclosure for them to escape (Sanders par. 11). Once the wolves were released two of the packs left the park and set up their territory leaving only one group initially setting up inside the park.

Evolutionary History of Gray Wolves The gray wolf is one of the world’s most well known and well researched animals with more documentation on them than any other wildlife species. It is a canid whose main habitats are in the wilderness of remote areas in North America, Eurasia and North

Red wolves are very similar to the coyotes. As their name name suggests the have red coat but also a little brown mixed into it. They are the smaller and leaner version of their cousin, the grey wolf. They are native to the southeast region of North America. Red wolves are mostly found in forest and swamps but can survive mostly anywhere in the southeast. They are a carnivorous species and their diet ranges from small rodents to white tailed deer. If they can not find anything else they have been to eat berries and insects to survive. Red wolves breed once a year during January through February. They

For the first time in modern history on a hiking trail near the Cascades' Mount Shasta, a gray wolf pack has been witnessed since its kind was hunted to extinction nearly a hundred years ago.

Livestock is the most expensive prey that wolves can get to, and the problem is that they get to them very easy and can escape because they have no reason to come back to the kill.

Protect the Gray Wolves Long before the settlers started to make the United States their home, “American Indians lived long beside the Gray Wolf before settlers started to come here.” (Rowe, Mark) The wolf is native to the North American continent and has been inhabiting its land for centuries. It is a canid species, or member of the canine family and is a cunning, smart, fast, and sly animal. Gray wolves range in color from black, brown, gray, and white and also look like a grown German Shepherd. They are well known for traveling in family sizes from 7-9 wolves, led by the alpha male and have a mate. They are a fierce animal that has been researched extensively because of their unique qualities and that they are near extinction.

In Yellowstone National Park, scientists have been carefully documenting the impacts of wolves on the ecosystem, noting many changes for the better since reintroduction, (Berger et al. 2008; Beschta and Ripple 2010). As the ecosystem depends on the Gray Wolf to properly function predation, the wolves also regulate distribution and group size of each species, which impacts overall native biodiversity. Wolves primarily prey on large hoofed mammals such as deers, elk and moose. By preying on the most vulnerable (diseased, young, old, weak or injured) individuals, wolves can help keep prey populations more healthy and strong, (Carbyn

For years, the Gray Wolf has been a sore subject for many. The controversy comes with those who fight for the protection to conserve this species and those who see the Gray Wolf as a threat to humans and their form of survival. Both arguments are logical and both sides seem to be supported by evidence. The biggest controversy comes with the first proposed delisting of the Gray wolf. This paper will outline the biology and ecology of the Gray Wolf as well as the causes for the decline of the species and the reasons to keep this species alive. How can a wolf do harm and at the same time do so much good to the ecosystem?

Face To Face With Wolves Fact 1: The Mexican wolf is slender with long legs. Its coat is mostly gray with light brown hairs along the back. It is found in the mountains of southwestern United States. Numbers of this type of wolf have fallen,and it is now protected by

As the population is growing more crops and cattle for farms are expanding and this has started to cause the Gray Wolves to get in the endangered list in 1976. Within those farms, Gray wolves would invade the livestock and gather food from the farms. When the farmers witness their livestock being eaten and taken away from the wolves they would kill and shoot the animals to defend their farm. Since there are so many farms the food stock has become limited for them so they have to find whatever food they can. Besides limited food disease is also a huge problem within their community, diseases such as canine distemper which is caused by unvaccinated dogs and kills young pups to older adults. Gray wolves are also a dangerous predator to themselves,

Arctic Wolf aka (polar wolf or white wolf ) Melville island wolves live where few other animals can survive. They have a very unique color due to the location that they live in. There weight depends on where they live some weigh upto 75

Dire Wolves Are Dire wolves mythical creatures? Dire Wolves existed many years ago and they were real, not just in the game of thrones. They were bigger than our everyday wolves. You can say they that they were different from our modern day wolves in many aspects, such as that they

After years of selective breeding and taming, the hunters finally came across some wolves that were able to listen to commands and do what they were ordered to do. These wolves did not look like the first ones with which humans came into contact. Their size, coloring, senses and even the length of their coat or swimming ability reflected the environment in which they lived. These environments could have ranged from anything since hunters do not stay in one place for very long. These wolves probably did not reflect their gray ancestors much anymore. The color of their coat could have become brown, black, or even yellow depending on where they were taken. Their size could have been affected, too, depending on how the hunters had used them- they could have shrunken to the size