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Gray Wolf

Maddie Heizer

April 28, 2011

Biology 0 Period

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Statistics

Common Name: Gray Wolf

Scientific Name: Canis Lupus

Size: They can weigh anywhere from 80- 120 pounds, Alaskans wolfs weigh more usually weighed in at about 175

Color: Anywhere from white to almost black

Speed: 20- 40 miles per hour

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Habitat

• Gray wolves live in the U.S, Alaska, Canada, Mexico and Eurasia.

• There is a small amount living in the Abbruzzi mountains in Italy.

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Food Source

• Gray wolfs hunt things such as: elk, deer, and moose. The wolfs hunt these while in packs.

• While alone wolfs hunt: birds, fish, snowshoe hares, mice, and rabbits.

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Population

• There are an estimated number of 5,320 gray wolfs in North America, and about 4,390 in Europe and Asia.

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Human Interaction with Gray Wolves

• People used to hate the wolfs and would kill them whenever they could, years later they realized that wolf are important in the food chain.

• Gray wolfs are eliminated from almost every state, except for Minnesota and Alaska

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Picture Cited

• http://www.pklifescience.com/staticfiles/articles/images/PKLS21810_inline.png

• http://www.pklifescience.com/staticfiles/articles/images/PKLS742_inline.png

• http://www.pklifescience.com/staticfiles/articles/images/PKLS745_inline.png

• http://www.pklifescience.com/staticfiles/articles/images/PKLS746_inline.png

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Work Cited

King, Judith: Wild life Fact File.

Pittsburg, PA: International Masters Publishers 1997

Harrington, Fred H. "Gray Wolves." PowerKids Life Science, Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2011. 29 Apr. 2011 <http://www.pklifescience.com/article/274/gra y-wolves>.