Wolves

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 * Wolves develop from pups at an incredible rate. Pups are born, in late April, after just a two month pregnancy. They are born deaf, blind, and weigh no more than a can of soda pop. At this time, pups can do basically just one thing suckle their mother’s milk. With in month, pups can hear and see weigh ten pounds and explore and play around the den site.A wolf may disperse from its natal pack when it is as young as 12 months old. In some cases a wolf might disperse and breed when it is 22 months old – the second February of its life. In any event, from 12 months of age onward, wolves look for a chance to disperse and mate with a wolf from another pack. In the meantime, they bide their time in the safety of their natal pack. From birth until his or her last dying day, a wolf is inextricable linked to other wolves in a complex web of social relation ships**.The ultimate basis for these relationships is sharing food with some, depriving it from others, reproducing with another, and suppressing reproduction =====

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. Dens are usually built 4 to 5 weeks prior to the birth, between the roots of trees, in small caves or crevices in rocks, abandoned beaver lodges, or expanded mammal burrows.=====

by Jessica Tilley