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	Wolves
		Gray coloured wolves often have coats that consist of hairs that are white, black, chestnut or gray, and some gray coloured wolves have a saddle shaped patch of colour on their back that contrasts with the rest of their coat.
		Wolves can be territorial, and the size of a wolf pack's territory may vary from 60 square kilometers (25 square miles) to 1300 square kilometers (500 square miles), depending on the availability of prey.
		Wolves of the high arctic represent an exception to this rule, however, and are smaller than the wolves of northern Canada and Alaska.
	www.ualberta.ca /~jzgurski/wwolf.html

	World Almanac for Kids
		They are fairly abundant in Alaska and Canada, but remnant populations of timber wolves south of Canada occur only in Minnesota and Mexico.
		The decreasing numbers of wolves are the result of encroachments on their territory by humans, who have long regarded wolves as competitors for prey and as dangerous animals in themselves.
		Wolves are equally at home on prairies, in forestlands, and on all but the highest mountains, but they are not found on desert lands.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/animals/wolf.html

	Wolves
		Wolves are very social animals that live in groups or "packs" led by an "alpha" male and female who are usually the largest and strongest members of the wolf pack.
		The sound most people associate with wolves is the "wolf howl." No two wolves howl exactly the same and their vocalizations are primarily a means of communication to prepare for a hunt, celebrate a kill, express sorrow or to attract a mate.
		Most wolves belong to the same species known as "Canis (dog) lupus (wolf)." However, wolves are genetically almost identical to dogs and the wolf is also closely related to jackals, coyotes and dingos.
	www.wolves-usa.com /wolves.html

	NOVA Online Wild Wolves Ed Bangs
		We did an economic analysis and it indicated that wolves in the Yellowstone system would generate up to about $19 million dollars a year in extra economic activity.
		Wolves are the parents, the mothers, the fathers, the brothers and sisters that we always hoped we could be.
		Scientific research on wolves didn't start until the '50s, and '60s, but people began to learn that these predators have a very important place in the ecosystem and that deer and elk are the magnificent creatures we admire because of the honing effect of predators over many thousands of years.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/wolves/bangs.html

	NOVA Online Wild Wolves What's in a Howl
		Wolves stand tall, raise their hackles, ears and tails, and produce low, menacing howls, all to convince their opponent that a retreat from this "big, bad wolf" is the best option.
		Wolves may be more active on moonlit nights, when they can see better, or we may hear them more often on such nights, because we feel more comfortable tramping about in the light of a full moon, but a wolf howling at the moon would be wasting its breath.
		These other wolves may be members of hostile adjacent packs that are competitors for territory and prey.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/wolves/howl.html

	Gray Wolf -- Kids' Planet -- Defenders of Wildlife
		Gray wolves are listed as endangered in the Southwest under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and threatened throughout the lower 48 states.
		Wolves live in packs, which are complex social structures that include the breeding adult pair (the alpha male and female) and their offspring.
		The illegal killing of wolves has become a leading threat to their survival.
	www.kidsplanet.org /factsheets/wolf.html

	Arctic Wolf
		Throughout the Fall and Winter, artic wolves remain on the move.
		Wolves usually live in small packs or family groups consisting of a breeding pair, their cubs, and their unmated offspring from the prior several seasons.
		The wolves must then prowl around the herd forcing the oxen to shift their ground to face them.
	www.cosmosmith.com /arctic_wolves.html

	International Wolf Center Wolf Basics - Gray Wolf Timeline
		At the turn of the century wolves were rare in southern and western Minnesota, southern Wisconsin and Michigan, and all of the eastern U.S. Elk used as livestock guarding animals for sheep in Arkansas.
		Wisconsin began intensive monitoring of wolves and estimated there were 25 wolves in the state during the winter of 1979-80.
		Minnesota DNR estimated that there were 2,450 wolves in Minnesota during the winter of 1997-98, and that the wolf range was around 88,325 square kilometers.
	www.wolf.org /wolves/learn/basic/history/gray_timeline.asp

	Wolf Related Stuff
		Wolves provoke farmers and ranchers by destroying livestock such as sheep, cows, and other such animals.
		Today, most wolves live in sparsely populated northern regions, such as Alaska, Minnesota, Canada, China, and Russia.
		Wolves are expert hunters and prey chiefly on large hoofed animals such as caribou, deer, elk, and moose.
	www.fortunecity.com /rivendell/stonekeep/420/wolves.html

	Gray Wolf
		Gray wolves are 2- 2.5 feet tall (shoulder height) and their bodies are between 4-5 feet long.
		Wolves use their faces and tails to indicate their emotion and status in the pack.
		Gray wolves now live in Rome (Italy), Spain, France, Poland, Germany, the former Soviet Union, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
	www.thewildones.org /Animals/grayWolf.html

	Dog Owner's Guide Profile : The Wolf
		Alpha wolves may place their head or paw on the shoulders of subordinates or grasp the inferior's muzzle in his jaws in play, just a reminder that he is boss.
		Wolves mature physically at a later age than dogs; females have their first estrus at two years of age or older, and they cycle only once each year, usually in late winter.
		Today wolves are endangered species wherever they live, except perhaps in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic and subarctic, where they appear to flourish in the midst of the herds of hundreds of thousands of caribou.
	www.canismajor.com /dog/wolves.html

	USFWS-Red Wolf Recovery Program
		Intermediate in size to gray wolves and coyotes, the average adult red wolf weighs 45-80 pounds, stands about 26 inches at the shoulder and is about 4 feet long from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail.
		Red wolves are social animals that live in packs consisting of a breeding adult pair and their offspring of different years, typically five to eight animals.
		As their name suggests, red wolves are known for the characteristic reddish color of their fur most apparent behind the ears and along the neck and legs, but are mostly brown and buff colored with some black along their backs.
	alligatorriver.fws.gov /redwolf.html

	NWT Wildlife and Fisheries - NWT Wildlife Species - Wolves Distribution
		Wolves that live on the arctic islands, and prey mostly on caribou, muskox and arctic hare are called arctic wolves.
		Wolves that live below the treeline or in the mountains, that depend mostly on non-migratory prey like moose and bison, and maintain regular territories are commonly known as timber wolves.
		Wolves that travel above and below the treeline on the mainland of the NWT, depend largely on barren-ground caribou, and do not maintain regular territories are commonly known as tundra or caribou wolves.
	www.nwtwildlife.rwed.gov.nt.ca /NWTwildlife/wolf/distribution.htm

	Mexican Gray Wolf (DesertUSA)
		Wolves often prey on domestic animals because of their vulnerability, which has resulted in the wolf's persecution by poisoning, trapping, and shooting.
		Juveniles remain with the pack until they reach sexual maturity at about two years, after which they may leave to search for a mate and establish new territories, or remain as helpers.
		The overall objective of this program is to reestablish 100 Mexican Wolves in the Apache and Gila National Forests of of Arizona and New Mexico by 2005.
	www.desertusa.com /mag98/mar/papr/du_mexwolf.html

	Yellowstone Wolf Restoration
		However, as wolves were matched up during temporary periods of penning and as pack members shifted or were killed and replaced by other dispersing wolves, the occasional result has been packs in which one or both of the alpha pair were not the parents of subordinate pack members.
		After the wolves’ release in 1996, plans to transplant additional wolves were terminated due to reduced funding and due to the wolves' unexpected early reproductive success.
		Although concern was expressed about the wolves becoming habituated to humans or to the captive conditions, the temporary holding period was not long in the life of a wolf.
	www.nps.gov /yell/nature/animals/wolf/wolfrest.html

	Defenders of Wildlife - Wolves in Alaska
		Alaska’s wolves, as elsewhere, play an essential role in maintaining healthy prey populations and biodiversity in ecosystems in which they inhabit.
		Defenders estimates that approximately 2,500 wolves will be legally killed next year through the use of aircraft, snowmachines, snares and leghold traps.
		Deep snow is required to effectively shoot wolves from the air or land aircraft and shoot them on the ground.
	www.defenders.org /wildlife/wolf/alaska.html

	Wolves' status depends on where they stand
		Well let me catch you up on a few facts: Wolves were part of the wildlife of the West and particularly Yellowstone, but early park managers, reflecting the antipredator tenor of their times, thought wolves and other predators were hurting elk populations and ordered them hunted out.
		Outside the park, when wolves show a preference for cattle or sheep, the ranchers will be issued permits to protect their herds and flocks.
		Wolves have not been removed from the endangered species list as far as I know, but the rules for wolf management outside Yellowstone have definitely changed.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/12/HOG9TBMFUO1.DTL

	Encyclopedia: Mississippi Sea Wolves
		The Sea Wolves were founded in 1996 and have since enjoyed considerable success.
		The Mississippi Sea Wolves are a minor league hockey team that are based in Biloxi, Mississippi.
		They reached the playoffs in five of their first seven years, and celebrated a league championship in 1999, when they defeated the Richmond Renegades in a best of seven series to claim the Kelly Cup.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mississippi-Sea-Wolves

	Gray Wolf - National Wildlife Federation
		Learn about the past, present and future for wolves.
		Estimated Population: There are approximately 2,500+ gray wolves in Minnesota, 321 in Michigan, 335 in Wisconsin, 81 in Montana, 271 in Yellowstone National Park, 285 in Idaho, 7,500-10,000 in Alaska and 57,000 in Canada.
		Wolves in the Greater Yellowstone area and central Idaho are listed as threatened, nonessential.
	www.nwf.org /wolves

	Wolves - USA Wolf Hybrids
		Wolves that are not bottle fed before their eyes open, 8 to 10 days after birth will most likely be skittish and as scared as wild wolves are.
		The purpose of this website is to promote the wolf's beauty and intelligence and to help educate people about the myth of the big bad wolf.
		Wolves and wolfdogs of high percentage are usually more frightened of people than people are of wolves and wolfdogs.
	www.wolves-usa.com

	ISM Midwest 16,000 years ago -- wolves, coyotes and dogs -- Illinois State Museum
		The gray wolves and coyotes of the last Ice Age were probably very similar in look and behavior to their modern relatives.
		The genus Canis includes wolves, coyotes, jackals, and domestic dogs.
		In fact, several thousand dire wolves have been found in the asphalt pits at Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles, CA.
	www.museum.state.il.us /exhibits/larson/canis.html

	Defenders of Wildlife - Wildlife - Wolves
		In recent years, Defenders helped restore wolves to the Northern Rockies and played key roles in the reintroduction of gray wolves to the Southwest and red wolves to the Southeast.
		Experts credit The Bailey Wildlife Foundation Wolf Compensation Trust, which pays livestock owners for losses to wolf predation, as the most important factor contributing to the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park and the Northern Rockies.
		Defenders of Wildlife has been a leader in wolf conservation since wolves first appeared on the federal endangered species list.
	www.defenders.org /wildlife/new/wolves.html

	World of Lady Wolf - Wolves
		They howl to find other pack members, to let "outside" wolves know where their territory is, or to get the pack excited and ready to hunt.
		One of the most important and interesting ways wolves communicate is through "body language." A wolf pack is very organized, and the Wolves in the pack live by certain "rules." The biggest rule is that there are leaders and there are followers.
		If two wolves have a disagreement, they may show their teeth and growl at each other.
	www.ladywolf.com /wolf.html

	Wolf Country, information and education site about wolves
		There have many stories and fables written about wolves, some like "little Red Riding Hood",and stories about Werewolves have made the wolf a symbol of evil, a monster to some, The wolf was often portrayed as the Anti-Christ, epitome of evil.
		Because wolves usually hunt for large animals, (although wolves are opportunistic and will eat smaller prey) they work together to catch their prey.
		Wolves will eat a healthy, strong animal if they can catch it.(Wolves need an average of three to ten pounds of meat each day).
	www.wolfcountry.net

	EEK! - Critter Corner - Timber Wolf
		Wolves were also affected by the ideas people had about them.
		Long ago, the land in Wisconsin provided wolves with the kind of habitat (food, water, shelter, space) they needed.
		Wolves defend these territories from other wolves by scent marking and by howling.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/caer/ce/eek/critter/mammal/wolves.htm

	Wolf Timber
		Wolves have been virtually exterminated from the continental United States and western Europe, although a few survive in Spain, northern Scandinavia and Italy.
		On the Arctic coast of Alaska and western Canada, wolves are a mixture of white and grey.
		Wolves may hunt alone, but usually they hunt in a family pack of three to as many as thirty wolves.
	www.panda.org /kids/wildlife/mntiwolf.htm

	AllRefer.com - wolf : Red Wolves and Coyotes (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		Real estate development in their traditional habitat, combined with the opening up of the ecological niche formerly filled by gray wolves and mountain lions, has prompted coyotes to greatly increase their range; they are now common in the Northeast and have developed small populations in large urban centers such as Chicago and New York City.
		Smallest of the wolves, coyotes are still widespread in W North America.
		The red wolf is similar in behavior to, and may be a hybrid of, the prairie wolf, C.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/wolf-red-wolves-and-coyotes.html

	Maine Wolf Coalition
		To promote a better understanding of the importance of wolves, the MWC has a comprehensive education program with community meetings, adult education classes, slide shows, live wolf programs, classroom activities, discussions, and displays throughout the state.
		Wolves strengthen the biodiversity of a region by bringing into balance species with large populations and bolstering species under stress.
		Though most of these lands are privately owned by paper companies, that fact would hardly trouble wolves, since healthy populations can certainly be supported in a working forest.
	home.acadia.net /mainewolf

	The Wolf Chronology
		Increasing settlements come into conflict with wolves and their prey species as the entire Great Plains ecosystem begins to be destroyed.
		- Wolves become extinct in the Scottish Highlands at the hands of Lochiel, a clan chieftain, because they "preyed on the red deer of the Grampians." Wolves are similiarly persecuted in western Europe, but do not become extinct in France, Italy, or Spain as they do in other countries.
		Radio-collared Alaskan wolves have covered up to 400 miles in one year, so the possibility that the Yellowstone wolves came from Canada cannot be ruled out (nor can the covert release of wolves by unknown parties).
	www.angelfire.com /bc/shadowcountry/wolfchrono.html

	Gray wolves encroaching on ranches
		The Sheep Mountain pack was reduced from 13 wolves to one by legal shootings and live removals after it repeatedly attacked livestock last year in Paradise Valley, Mont., north of the park.
		Farm and ranch groups, who lost a court fight to keep wolves from being brought back, want the government to lift restrictions on stockgrowers' shooting the animals to protect their cattle, sheep and dogs.
		Six years after they were returned to the world's first national park, the gray wolves of Yellowstone are pushing beyond its borders into an edgy, life-and-death coexistence with the populated West.
	www.usatoday.com /news/ndssun07.htm

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