10 Interesting Facts About Wolves

Wolf Facts- Average life span for wolves in the wild up to 13 years in wild (usually 6 to 8 years) up to 16 years in captivity. Average weight for females is 27 to 36 kilograms (60 to 80 pounds) and for males 30 to 50 kilograms (70 to 110 pounds). Average height is from 66 to 81 centimeters (26 to 32 inches) at the shoulder. They have gray, black or white fur color. Wolves are the largest members of the Canidae family, which includes domestic dogs, coyotes, dingoes, African hunting dogs, many types of foxes, and several kinds of jackals.

There are 2 widely recognized species of wolves in the world, the red and the gray. However, there is debate over how many species of wolf exist and if there are different subspecies of the gray wolf.

Wolves are excellent hunters and have been found to be living in more places in the world than any other mammal except humans.

Wolves are legendary because of their spine-tingling howl, which they use to communicate. A lone wolf howls to attract the attention of his pack, while communal howls may send territorial messages from one pack to another. Some howls are confrontational. Much like barking domestic dogs, wolves may simply begin howling because a nearby wolf has already begun.

More Interesting Facts About Wolves

Wolves are renowned because of their Spine-tingling howl that can be heard from miles around. Magical yet Frightening.

It is rumored that wolves howl at moon which is wrong. In order for howl to be effective & high-pitched, a wolf has to bend the neck upward. They tend to howl more at night because they are nocturnal.

Wolf Packs are established according to a highly organized and strict hierarchy. Average Pack size is 6 to 8 Wolves with a dominant leader ‘Alpha Male’ at the Top. He make the decisions and is responsible to all the wolves in the Pack. He’s leads the Hunt and usually eat first.

Wolves are highly territorial animals and typically hunt within territories, ranging from 50 to 1,000 square miles. They establish territories far larger than they require to survive

Approximately 1/3 of the life of a wolf will be spend moving around their territory and thus known to roam large distances. So much so that they may travel 50 miles or more each day in search of food.

The territory is marked out accurately by urine, droppings, scratches and sound calls and is defended actively against trespassing wolves.

They hunt as a group which make it possible for them to hunt down animals much larger themselves, such as elk, deer or moose and can eat 20 pounds of meat in a single meal

Wolves can smell other animals several kilometers away & from the smell they can tell if other wolves were in the territory. This is because Wolves have about 200 million scent cells as compare to Humans who have only about 5 million.

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