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Timber Wolf - - (Canis lupus)

Wildlife Note Card Photography by Steven Holt

Note Cards four 5X7 inch (folded size) blank inside with envelopes  TW-131  $6.00 
Matted Card (one) 5x7 inch print mounted in 8X10 inch double mat  ZW-131  $6.50 
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Timber wolves are highly intelligent social hunters. Living together in packs, they hunt, play and raise their young together. Packs have well defined dominance hierarchies. These hierarchies can be violently enforced, but only when social signals fail. Wolves communicate their status through complex facial expressions and other body language. The alpha, or highest ranking, male and female normally prevent other pack members from breeding. The alpha female gives birth to five to seven pups in an underground den and nurses her young for six to eight weeks. When the pups emerge from the den, she receives assistance from other members of the pack who guard her young while she hunts. Olaus Murie, the first scientist to extensively study wolf behavior at the den, had as his strongest impression "their friendliness." Wolves eat prey ranging in size from mice to moose. Wolf packs hunting large hoofed mammals usually test an animal for weakness before committing to an attack.
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