Wolf Bite & Lupus?

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Hungry Wolf

Human Howls

​Biologists have found that wolves will respond to humans imitating their howls. The International Wolf Center in Minnesota even sponsors “howl nights” on which people can howl in the wilderness and hope for an answering howl.

For Life

A male and female that mate usually stay together for life. They are devoted parents and maintain sophisticated family ties.

The Earliest Drawings of Wolves

The earliest drawings of wolves are in caves in southern Europe and date from 20,000 B.C.

Wolf as a guard dog?

Wolves do not make good guard dogs because they are naturally afraid of the unfamiliar and will hide from visitors rather than bark at them.

In order for a new wolf cub to urinate...

In order for a new wolf cub to urinate, its mother has to massage its belly with her warm tongue.

Black wolves don’t occur naturally.

A 2008 study at Stanford University found that the mutation responsible for black fur occurs only in dogs, so black wolves are the result of gray wolves breeding back with domestic canines.

# of wolves around the world

There are an estimated 7,000 to 11,200 wolves in Alaska and more than 5,000 in the lower 48 states. Around the world there are an estimated 200,000 in 57 countries, compared to up to 2 million in earlier times.