【Name】 gray wolf species 【Chinese】 wolf Alias 【Latin Name】 canis chanco gray literature 【English name】 wolf, gray wolf 【Category】 canine species, canidae, dog is canis
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Introduction of species
Gray wolf is a canine mammal species are known, it is the largest canine in the shape of wild animals, and still infested large areas in the northern hemisphere. The red wolf bigger than it is the same family of small, living area is much smaller than it.
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Build
Timberwolves good physical condition, male gray wolf north up to 2 meters in length, including 50 cm long tail. Weight of 20 to 80 kg. The respect of the female by the North American Indians.
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Distribution
In addition to humans, wolves can be said that the earth was the most widely distributed mammal. Its original habitat from Alaska and Canada to Mexico, throughout North America, Europe, Asia to the Mediterranean, the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of India and China. In addition to tropical forests and dry desert and, in the various ecological environment can be found in their footsteps. But for various reasons, many of the original gray wolf has gone from habitat loss, the numbers are greatly reduced. In North America, mainly in Alaska and Canada. Russia and its leader in Europe in recent countries, the Balkans, there are some. Central and southern Europe and Scandinavia much less the number.
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Stocks
Gray wolf populations from several to twenty or thirty there, usually by a husband and wife and their children, family members. Their strong family values, and only led the public to match the wolf and the wolf. A group of one hundred to several hundred square kilometers of the site so much, and should not be allowed outside encroachment. Wolves howling sound is their determination to defend the community and homes.
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Hunting
Gray wolf hunt mainly at night out of food, the food is generally a large herbivores, such as various deer. Gray wolf to control the number of herbivores, contribute to maintaining the ecological balance to a certain extent. Unfortunately, they also attack domestic animals, causing hatred and kill human. North American gray wolves attack people rarely hear the event, but in the Eurasian continent is said to have been killed or injured wolves do attack people. Gray wolf is a fierce predator, fierce cruel, but usually only 2-15 associating together, to be able to rule the wild world. Occasionally, a single gray wolf food, once found the prey, it will tear more than howling voice, calling on other companions, for attacking it.
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Reproduction
January to April each year is the gray wolf breeding season. Pregnancy is 63 days, a child can produce 6 to 7. After giving birth to the joint care of by the group members come back to eat regurgitated food parents hunting. Until after sexual maturity (less than two years), they have to leave, go out and find their partner, to establish their own territory.
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Subspecies distribution
Tundra Wolf (canis lupus albus) - Russia's North Arabian wolf (canis lupus arabs) - Arabian Peninsula Arctic wolf (canis lupus arctos) - Canadian Arctic islands and Greenland Mexican wolf (canis lupus baileyi) - introduction to Arizona Russian wolf (canis lupus communis) - Central Russia Caspian Sea Wolf (canis lupus cubanensis) - Russia, the Caspian and Black Sea Australian wild dogs (canis lupus dingo) - Southeast Asia and Australia Dogs (canis lupus familiaris) - In addition to Antarctica, the widely distributed global Hokkaido wolf (canis lupus hattai) - Hokkaido, Japan, has been extinct Japanese wolf (canis lupus hodophilax) - Japan's Honshu island, Shikoku island, Kyushu, extinct Italian wolf (canis lupus italicus) - Italy and Asia Plain Egyptian Wolf (canis lupus lupaster) - Egypt in the north and northeast Libya. Eurasian wolf (canis lupus lupus) - China, Mongolia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Germany, Spain and Portugal Eastern Minnesota (canis lupus lycaon) - southeastern Canada Great Plains Wolf (canis lupus nubilus) - American West, Northeast and eastern Canada More break horse wolf (canis lupus occidentalis) - Western Canada, Alaska, the introduction to the Northwest Indian wolf (canis lupus pallipes) - India to the Middle East
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Hunting
When the attack large prey, wolves need to bite the prey can make hundreds of eloquence breathe, game after the death of leader couples have priority access rights.