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The wolf is a social animal. [37] Its populations consist of packs and lone wolves, most lone wolves being temporarily alone while they disperse from packs to form their own or join another one. [93] The wolf's basic social unit is the nuclear family consisting of a mated pair accompanied by their offspring. [37]
The wolf was held in high esteem by the Dacians, whose name was derived from the Gaulish Daoi, meaning "wolf people". The wolf was viewed as the lord of all animals and as the only effective power against evil. [60] The ancient Greeks associated wolves with their plague-and-healing god Apollo.
The Wolf and his Master, as illustrated by Harrison Weir in Stories of Animal Sagacity. Wolves are sometimes kept as exotic pets , and in some rarer occasions, as working animals . Although closely related to domesticated dogs , wolves do not show the same tractability as dogs in living alongside humans, and generally, a greater amount of ...
Wolf (national animal) Canis lupus [24] Barn swallow (national bird) Hirundo rustica [24] Baltic herring (national fish) Clupea harengus membras [24] Swallowtail (national butterfly) Papilio machaon [24] Finland: Brown bear (national animal) Ursus arctos [25] Whooper swan (national bird) Cygnus cygnus [25] European perch (national fish) Perca ...
Arctic wolf feeding on muskox carcass in Ellesmere Island. Very little is known about the movement of the Arctic wolves, mainly due to climate. The only time at which the wolf migrates is during the wintertime when there is complete darkness for 24 hours. This makes Arctic wolf movement hard to research.
The Vancouver Island wolf, also known as the coastal wolf or sea wolf (Canis lupus crassodon) [2] is a subspecies of grey wolf, endemic to the coast of the Pacific Northwest. [3] They are a unique subspecies of wolf due to their semi-aquatic lifestyle, which includes a diet that is almost entirely marine-based.
Two new wolf packs spotted in Northern California reveal a continued resurgence of the species, a century after they disappeared from the Golden State. Wildlife officials confirmed the existence ...
The area had previously been largely unexplored because of its harsh climate and embroilment in the Eritrean War of Independence and subsequent Eritrean–Ethiopian War, though local Afar tribesmen knew of the animal, and referred to it as wucharia (wolf). [26] The animal's wolf-like qualities were confirmed in 2011, when several golden "jackal ...