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[wisdomhubworld]

30 Amazing Gray Wolf Facts for Wildlife Enthusiasts and Kids

Gray wolves are incredible and legendary mammals on the earth. Here are 30 amazing gray wolf facts for wildlife enthusiastic and kids. Explo

[welcometoissueland-blog]

Fun fact #11

I yelp, growl, and make other various animal noises in reaction to certain situations. Impulses or boredom can also compel me to do the same, but with a far broader range- if even definable at times. (//sweats and shrugs)

[npr]

Wolves in Wyoming are once again being protected under the Endangered Species Act, just two years after those protections were taken away. A federal judge's ruling last week found the state's management plan for the animal “inadequate and un-enforceable.” In February, NPR’s Nate Rott took a comprehensive look at the wolf situation in the Western U.S.

Wolves At The Door

Photo credit: David Gilkey/NPR

[skunkbear]

These are some #wolffacts compiled by Becky Lettenberger -- one of the rock stars behind NPR's in-depth, beautiful look at the human/wolf conflict/confluence in Montana.

[wolveswolves]

Hey, I've recently started a twitter account (@WolfFact), and I've used some facts from your Wolf Facts page as a source of information for some of my tweets, I hope that's okay. If not I'll be happy to remove the tweets! Your blog is incredible btw! Big love from another wolf lover x

No, of course that's okay! :) That's what Tumblr is for. It's not like I own those facts, haha.

I followed your twitter (even though I'm barely using mine anymore). Good luck with it :)

[wolveswolves]

Wolffact: a hungry wolf can eat 20 pounds of meat in a single meal, which is akin to a human eating one hundred hamburgers!

[wolveswolves]

During famines, do wolf packs get larger? (Like do packs band together?) Also, depending on how long or how bad the famine might be, have wolves ever been to turn cannobalistic?

Wolves are extremely opportunistic carnivores, and they will not miss a chance at a meal so I can imagine they would rather fight and eat each other than conjoin to a larger pack. 

There's no need for a famine to turn wolves cannibalistic, they often eat each other. They cannibalize pack mates after they are killed by other wolves or have died for other reasons, sometimes even injured pack mates. 

[wolveswolves]

How long could a wolf survive without meat, then? I would assume that, even if they could supplement their diet with other things, they wouldn't be able to survive off of them. Also, something's that's always bugged me: Do wolves circumvent all the nasty bacteria in raw meat through a strong digestive system, or just becuase it's so ridiculously fresh?

They can survive without food for long periods. I would say around a month. Two weeks without food will not weaken a wolf's muscle activity. A well fed wolf will store fat under the skin, around the heart, intestines, kidneys, and bone marrow. Also it depends on many things so it is hard to say. For example it depends on the season. In the winter it would take more meat to sustain because of movement, they are wasting energy following herds of prey and keeping body temperature also needs energy.

About the second question, I know that wolves have special enzymes or bacteria in their saliva that break down the E Coli and stop it from affecting them. They even ‘evolved’ to be able to cope with bacteria found in carrion and meat that has been buried for long periods.