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Grey wolf

Canis lupus

Visual Appearance
A grey undomesticated dog
Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Size
Height: 31–33 in
Length: 41–63 in
Weight: 88 lbs to 175 lbs
Environment
Habitat: Wolves live in forests, inland wetlands, shrublands, grasslands, pastures, deserts, and rocky peaks on mountains
Diet: Hooved animals
Factoids
  • Wolves may attack coyote den sites, digging out and killing their pups.
  • Wolves eat the brown bears they kill.
  • Wolves also dominate and sometimes kill wolverines, and will chase off those that attempt to scavenge from their kills.

My Notes

This is a very cool animal!

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