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For every Alpha, there is an Omega -- and life in a wolf pack is no exception. We all know about the alpha male -- the "Lord of His Pack." but there is also an alpha female in the family, usually the mate of the top ranking male. She will dominate the other females in the pack. The female below her in rank will dominate those beneath her, who will in turn dominate the next ones down, and so on.

At the bottom of the heap is the lowly omega wolf. She, or he gets it from all sides. Sometimes the individual accepts their station in life, and spends its life within the pack. Sometimes too, the omega wolf is driven away, and if lucky, meets another omega. If the new wolf is of the opposite sex, the two might form a new pack in neutral territory. In this photo, the omega female wolf is being reminded once again of her status within the pack. The other wolf is a female of higher rank.

While these displays of dominance/submissive behavior are noisy, actual violence and injury is rare.

For those of us who have experienced life at the bottom, we can feel a sort of kinship with the omega.

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The length from nose to tail tip is 120 to 200 cm and sometimes even longer (230-240 cm).

The weight of a wolf is between 20 to 80 kg for a male and between 18 to 55 for a female. The normal wolf have a weight of between 35-45 kg and a wolf that have a weight of 80 kg or above is a very rare wolf.

The wolf change the fur once a year. After the cold winter it drop the fur so that it is short over the summer when the wolf need coolness. Then, right to the next winter, the fur have grown long again so the wolf could stand the cold.

The length of the winter fur is 5 to 6 cm and the mane is about 10 to 12 cm. This thick fur is a good protection against the cold and a wolf could survive in very low temperatures. A bigger problem is hot summer days when all they could do is to slumber in the shadow or other cool place. All hair in the main is connected to muscles that makes it possible for the wolf to raise its hair to look threatening etc. This ability is important in communication to other wolves and also a way to show other animals how dangerous the wolf is.

The normal wolf (if it is such thing as a "normal wolf") have a grey fur with small areas of white, black, yellow and brown hairs.

The whole range is from totally white wolves like the polar wolf to totally black wolves as some timber wolves and others. In between you will find wolves in the colors grey, black, brown, white, yellow and red.

Wolves in the same area usually have the same colors.

The front paws, that are bigger than the back paws, have five toes. Four normal and one shrinked. The length is ~11 cm and the broad is ~10cm. The back paws have only four normal toes.The length is ~8 cm and the broad is ~7cm.

If you look at the matrix you will discover that it is covered with small, strive hairs. This hair works both as a isolation and as a grip to ice and other slippery surfaces.

When a wolf move to one place to another, it does that by either walk, trot, gallop or jump. Normally it trot and have then a speed of 12-16 km/h. The wolf is very tough when it trot and could manage to move in the same speed for hours. The maximum speed for a wolf is about 60 km/h.

The distance a wolf move in a day often depends of how much food there is in the neighborhood. Much prey, small distance (down to just a few kilometers). Little prey, long distance (up to 100 kilometers).

The wolf have well developed eyesight, hearing and sense of smell. This tools is a good companion in both hunt and communication with other wolves.

Smell is an important factor in a wolflife so a good sense of smell is necessary for survival. The use it for tracking, hunting, communication and a lot more. Under good circumstances, a wolf could sense a prey 3 kilometers away.

The wolf equivalence to our fingerprint is two glands of smell, one at the back and one at the rectum. The secrete from this two glands is different for every wolf.

Wolves also use smell for marking out borderlines and paths in their territory. They mark with either urine, excrement or by digging in the ground. The distance between two marks is normally 100m, but the distance is smaller near borderlinesto other wolves.

The eyesight is terrific and a good aid in hunting etc. The eyes are like almost all predators pointed forward with a sight-field of nearly 180 degrees (Compared to many preys that have a sight-field of about 300 degrees.)

The good hearing is used for hunting, communication etc.

 
 
 


 
  
 

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