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Wolves are large wild canids.
Wolf Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Subfamily: Caninae
Tribe: Canini
Genus: Canis
Species: lupus
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Other Names:
Wolf in Foreign Languages:
Afrikaans: wolf
Albanian: ulk / ujk
Syriac: de’va’
Hebrew: de’va’
Armenian: gayl
Old Armenian: gayl
Asturian: llobu / lloba
Avar: bac’
Azeri: canavar / qurd
Baluchi: gurk
Bashkir: büre
Basque: otso
Belarusian: vouk / vaucýca
Bengali: nekre
Blackfoot: omahkapi'si
Breton: bleiz / bleizi
Bulgarian: valk / valcíca
Burmese: wun balwei
Buryat: šono
Catalan: llop / lloba
Chagatai: böri
Chechen: borz
Cherokee: waya
Chinese Mandarin: láng
Chuvash: kaskar
Coptic: ouonsh
Cornish: bleydh
Cree: mahihkan
Czech: vlk
Danish: ulv / ulve
Dogrib: dìga
Dolgan: börö
Dutch: wolf
Erzya: vergiz
Esperanto: lupo
Estonian: susi / hunt
Ewe: amegãxi
Faroese: úlvur
Finnish: susi / hukka
French: loup / louve
Georgian: mgeli
German: Wolf / Wölfin
Gothic: wulfs
Greek: lýkos / lýkaina
Hebrew: z'év
Hopi: kwewu
Hungarian: farkas
Icelandic: úlfur
Indonesian: serigala
Inuktitut: amaruq
Irish: faolchú / mac tíre / madra
alla / madra allta
Italian: lupo
Japanese: okami / katakana / urufu
Jicarilla: ba’iitso
Kaki Ae: weldok
Karachay-Balkar: börü
Karakalpak: bo'ri, qasqir
Karelian: hukku
Kazakh: böri / qasqir
Korean: neukdae
Kumyk: börü
Kyrgyz: börü / qarisqir
Lakota: shung manitu tanka
Latgalian: vylks
Latin: lupus / lupi / lupa / ,
lupae
Latvian: vilks / vilcene
Lithuanian: vilkas / , vilke
Lojban: labno
Low German: Wulf
Luxembourgish: Wollef / Wëllef
Macedonian: volk
Malay: serigala
Maltese: dib / lupu
Manx: filliu / moddey oaldey
Maori: wuruhi
Eastern Mari: pire
Western Mari: piri
Mingo: utháyôni
Mingrelian: geri
Moksha: vrgaz
Mongolian: cono
Montagnais: maikan
Navajo: ma'iitsoh
Nogai: böri
Norwegian: ulv / varg / ulvebinne
/ ulvinne
Occitan: lop
Ojibwe: ma'iingan / ma'iinganag
Old English: wulf
Old Irish: cú, cú allaid, fáel,
fáelchú, macc tíre, sídach Old Norse:
ulfr
Plains Apache: ba’
Polish: wilk / wilczyca / basior
/ wadera
Portuguese: lobo / loba
Romani: ruv / ruvnyi
Romanian: lup / lupoaica
Russian: volk / volcíca
Samogitian: velks
Scottish Gaelic: faol / madadh
allaidh
Roman: vuk
Seri: xeecoj / ziix yacö caixaj
Slovak: vlk / vlcica
Slovene: volk / volkulja
Southern Altai: börü
Swahili: mbwa mwitu
Swedish: varg / ulv
Tajik: gurg
Tamil: onay
Taos: kòléna
Tatar: büre
Thai: soonakbàà / máábpaa
Tok Pisin: weldok
Turkish: kurt / böri
Turkmen: böri / gurt / möjek
Tuvan: börü
Ukrainian: vovk / vovcýcja
Uzbek: qashqir
Veps: händikaz
Vietnamese: sói
Welsh: blaidd
West Frisian: wolf
Western Apache: ma’choh / ba’choh
Yakut: börö
Yiddish: volf
Zulu: impisi
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Size: Wolves are 36 to 63 inches in length,
they have tails that are 13 to 20 inches long. Wolves
weigh 40 to 175 lbs. Wolves stand 26 to 32 inches at
their shoulder. Male wolves are typically larger then
their female counterparts.
Habitat: Wolves are found in Canada and portions
of the United States.
Description: Wolves are slender, powerfully
built animals with a sloping back. Wolves are heavily
muscled and they have a thick coat.
Diet: Wolves eat deer, moose, caribou, elk,
bison, musk-oxen and beaver. Wolves will also eat voles
and mice if food is scarce.
Senses: Wolves have excellent vision and exceptional
hearing.
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Communication: Wolves communicate using
scent marking, vocalizations, visual displays,
and body postures. Wolves have a complex vocal
communication that consists of: whines, growls
and howls.
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Did You Know?
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.
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Gestation: Wolves carry their young for 63 days.
Birth: Wolves give birth to litters of 4 to
7 wolf pups. A wolf is approximately 1 lb at birth.
Sexually Mature: Male and female wolves typically
mate for life. Wolves reach sexual maturity between
1 to 2 years of age.
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Life Span: Wolves typically live 6 to
8 years in the wild, but they can live for up
to 13 years. Mortality rates for wolf pups are
as high as 50%!
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Did You Know?
Gray wolves can be white, black, tan,
brown, or a combination of tans, browns,
and black.
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Social Structure: Wolves travel, hunt and live
in packs. A wolf pack contains an alpha couple, that
includes a mating pair. Wolves develop strong social
bonds and connections. The pack has a social hierarchy.
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