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  The similiarities between a pack of wolves and a tribe of Indians
Nonetheless, wolves remain a protected species in the United States and the reintroduction to wilderness areas in the U.S. is difficult.
Though the US population of wolves is significantly less than what it was even a hundred years ago, North America is still home to many wolves, even the Timber Wolf and the Grey Wolf.
It is presently illegal to hunt a pack of wolves in the United States, but the coyote, a close relation to the wolf, does have an open season.
www.indians.org /articles/a-pack-of-wolves.html   (380 words)

  
  Gray Wolf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wolves are susceptible to the same infections that affect domestic dogs, such as mange, heartworm, rabies and canine distemper, and such diseases can become epidemic, drastically reducing the wolf population in an area.
Beta wolves are the most likely to challenge their superiors for the role of the alpha, though some betas seem content with being second, and will sometimes even let lower ranking wolves leapfrog them for the position of alpha should circumstances necessitate such a happening (death of the alpha, etc.).
Wolves are also bred for their fur in a very few locations, but they are considered as a rather problematic animal to breed, and, combined with the low value of the pelt, most fur farms utilize other animals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wolf   (6304 words)

  
 Wolves
Gray coloured wolves often have coats that consist of hairs that are white, fl, 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 are carnivores, and are primarily hunters of large hoofed mammals (ungulates).
www.ualberta.ca /~jzgurski/wwolf.html   (842 words)

  
 Grey Wolves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grey Wolves were founded as the youth organization of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) created by Alparslan Türkeş in 1969.
According to Daniele Ganser, a researcher at the ETH Zurich University, the founder of the Grey Wolves, Alparslan Türkeş was a member of Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish branch of Gladio, a stay-behind NATO anticommunist paramilitary organization which was supposed to prepare networks for guerilla warfare in case of a Soviet invasion.
With Counter-Guerrilla, the Grey Wolves went to fight Kurds, and have been accused of killing and torturing thousands in the 1980s, and also carrying false flag attacks in which the Counter-Guerrilla attacked villages, dressed up as PKK fighters, and raped and executed people randomly (Ganser, 2005).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grey_Wolves   (1431 words)

  
 Grey Wolves   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Grey Wolves have been accused of assassinating, on July 6, 1996, the prominent Turkish Cypriot journalist Kutlu Adali, because of his criticism of the Denktash regime and, more generally, of Turkey's policies in Cyprus.
In 1996 a turkish deputy from Tansu Ciller's True Path Party (DYP) revealed that Abdullah Chatli, the leader of the Grey Wolves, was are responsible for arson fires in Greece's islands.
The MHP (Grey Wolves) and Fascism in Turkey
www.fas.org /irp/world/para/grey_wolves.htm   (271 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Grey wolf
Wolves were once widely distributed across much of Eurasia from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, and in North America, their distribution extended from the far north to the Sierra Madre in Mexico.
Wolves mate at the end of winter, and the pups are born after a gestation period of nine weeks.
Grey wolves have been eradicated in Western Europe, except in small populations in 10 countries.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/148.shtml   (455 words)

  
 EDJ: The Grey Wolves   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Grey Wolves have come to be called the shame of the Dinganni nation, and Magus had come to purge all Dinganni of their shame and to reclaim the Talon of Kro'arn'lesh.
The Grey Wolves have also studied many of the traps common to the Smalls and have criss-crossed most of the entrances to their domain with traps of many different varieties, all lethal.
It is possible that the Grey Wolves have developed a group pattern and some of the adept Grey Wolves and Grey Wolf himself have woven to it and enhanced some of their abilities.
www.fortunecity.com /rivendell/rhydin/91/greywolf.htm   (2650 words)

  
 Wolf Trust - Grey Wolves
Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) - widespread in the northern hemisphere.
Wolves have to search further for food where it is scarce, so territories will be larger in regions where there is not much prey.
Wolves tend to leave when there is lots of food and vacant spaces in which to set up a territory.
www.wolftrust.org.uk /faqwolves.html   (982 words)

  
 Red Wolves: to Conserve or not to Conserve
Grey wolves frequently disperse 50km or more, and theoretical models suggest that hybrid zones up to 50 times as large as an individual's dispersal distance are possible (Barton and Hewitt, 1989).
Red wolves appeared to be closely related to populations of grey wolves that are known to hybridize with coyotes, and had allele frequencies generally intermediate between non-hybridizing populations of coyotes and grey wolves (Fig.3).
Otherwise, it is difficult to imagine why grey wolves, which have the largest distribution of any land mammal and are known from fossils in Virginia, Arkansas, Nebraska, Texas, and Georgia (Nowak, 1979) would have so carefully avoided entering the southeastern corner of the US where red wolves were hypothesized to exist in isolation.
www.canids.org /PUBLICAT/CNDNEWS3/2conserv.htm   (4402 words)

  
 Mexican Gray Wolf (DesertUSA)
Wolves can live in a great variety of habitats, ranging from arctic tundra to forest and prairie, if adequate prey is present.
Wolves eat a wide variety of food, including small animals like mice and squirrels, large animals like deer and moose and sometimes, carrion and plant material.
Wolves often prey on domestic animals because of their vulnerability, which has resulted in the wolf's persecution by poisoning, trapping, and shooting.
www.desertusa.com /mag98/mar/papr/du_mexwolf.html   (956 words)

  
 Wolf Country, facts, the senses observed
Wolves anywhere can have coats that grade from almost pure white to jet fl, although all of the arctic wolves are usually all white.
Wolves have been known to wash mud from there coats in rivers and streams, wolves depend on thier thick coats in winter, so it is not surprising that they spend part of thier leisure time in grooming behavior.
Wolves have been known to paw or scratch the ground or trees, this may release odors from glands in the paws or as visual markers to pack members and other wolves.
www.wolfcountry.net /information/WolfObserved.html   (2048 words)

  
 Lioncrusher's Domain -- Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) facts and pictures
Wolves clearly show what their feelings are to other members of the pack through body positioning, ear and tail position, and noises accompanying the postures.
Wolves will raise their tail high to indicate that they are in charge, and tuck it between their legs to indicate fear or submission.
Wolves scent mark, and they are able to detect in these deposits of urine, feces, and facial gland secretions exactly who left it, their sex, their rank, their age, and what they were feeling at the time of the scent marking.
www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=35&page=3   (3506 words)

  
 Grey Wolf aka Timber Wolf - The wolves of British Columbia, Canada
Description - Generally the grey wolf is a grizzled grey but colour varies from white to fl.
Distribution - The grey wolf, also known as the timber wolf, prefers the open tundra and forests of British Columbia.
Even though they kill only to survive, studies show that wolves play a key role in drastically decreasing the number of ungulates, sometimes beyond the rate of replacement, in any given area.
www.bcadventure.com /adventure/wilderness/animals/greywolf.htm   (334 words)

  
 World of the Wolf - Canis lupus
The grey wolf is the largest living member of the family Canidae.
Grey wolves from the hotter, drier parts of the world rarely exceed 50 lb (23 kg).
Colouration is not especially useful in classifying grey wolves, since it is such a highly variable characteristic, even within individual packs or litters.
www.naturalworlds.org /wolf/canis/Canis_lupus.htm   (308 words)

  
 Mehmet Ali Ağca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After this training, he began operations with the Grey Wolves, who were contributing to the political instability in Turkey, which culminated in a military coup in 1980.
Opinions differ on whether the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves were being used by the CIA or the Bulgarian Secret Service.
According to reporter Lucy Komisar he was aided Abdullah Catli, second-in-command of the Grey Wolves and prominent Gladio operative, and fled to Bulgaria, a base of operation for the Turkish mafia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mehmet_Ali_Agca   (2407 words)

  
 Gray Wolf
Gray wolves are 2- 2.5 feet tall (shoulder height) and their bodies are between 4-5 feet long.
Earlier this century people worldwide believed wolves should be hunted and killed because wolves were killing cattle and deer.
Wolves use their faces and tails to indicate their emotion and status in the pack.
www.thewildones.org /Animals/grayWolf.html   (479 words)

  
 North America's lone wolf unmasked
The Algonquin wolves, which are smaller than grey wolves and feed mainly on deer instead of larger animals such as moose or caribou, were believed to be a grey wolf and coyote hybrid.
As Ontario was deforested, the grey wolves migrated north and the eastern wolves moved in following the expansion of deer herds.
Wolves in the north have been breeding with grey wolves.
www.timberwolfinformation.org /info/archieve/newspapers/dna.html   (1293 words)

  
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In 1981, a terrorist from the Grey Wolves attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in Vatican City.
GREY WOLVES TERROR The news of Catli's secret police ties were all the more scandalous given his well-known role as a key leader of the Grey Wolves, a neo-fascist terrorist group that has stalked Turkey since the late 1960s.
Clarridge was the CIA's man-on-the-spot in Turkey in the 1970s when armed bands of Grey Wolves unleashed a wave of bomb attacks and shootings that killed thousands of people, including public officials, journalists, students, lawyers, labor organizers, social democrats, left-wing activists and ethnic Kurds.
www.etext.org /Politics/Autonome.Forum/Kurdistan/Articles/grey-wolves-terrorists.txt   (3169 words)

  
 WWF - Wolf (Timber)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
European wolves are grey to greyish brown with some reddish hair on the back.
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   (677 words)

  
 Grey Wolves   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Timber wolves, also called gray wolves, are the largest wild members of the dog family.
This commonly consists of a pair of breeding wolves, their current offspring and additional yearlings or other young wolves.
However, it was the belief by western settlers that the wolf caused widespread livestock losses that led to its near extinction in the lower 48 states in the early part of the 20th Century.
www.cdli.ca /CITE/wolf_grey.htm   (242 words)

  
 Hinterland Who's Who - Wolf
Wolves are social animals: they not only hunt in packs or groups but live most of their lives with other wolves.
Wolves’ chief prey are large mammals such as deer, moose, caribou, elk, bison, and muskox.
Wolves also eat a variety of smaller mammals and birds, but these rarely make up more than a small part of their diet.
www.hww.ca /hww2.asp?pid=1&id=107&cid=8   (2190 words)

  
 SOAR Project 2004
Wolves are one kind of flesh eating mammal in the dog family.
A grey wolf’s length is 40-63 inches, a maned wolf’s length is 47-51 inches, and a red wolf’s length is 40-52 inches.
Wolves are endangered mostly because of Destruction of habitat.
www.selah.k12.wa.us /SOAR/Projects2004/MarshalN.html   (857 words)

  
 Hinterland Who's Who - Wolf
In the mottled grey, green, and brown world of the eastern forests the normal coat of the wolf is an effective camouflage.
Wolves still live in large areas of the Northern Hemisphere; however, their primitive range has been greatly reduced due to changes in the landscape and people’s efforts to exterminate them.
There is now a greater awareness among hunters and others that the killing by wolves of deer and other prey species, which we may want for ourselves, is not a sufficient reason for the extermination of wolves.
www.hww.ca /hww2.asp?id=107   (2190 words)

  
 Grey Wolves   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wolves range in color from grizzled gray or fl to all-white.
Wolves live in packs, which are complex social structures that include the
The illegal killing of wolves has become a leading threat to their survival.
www.exploringnewhorizons.org /Greywolveslm.htm   (285 words)

  
 The Unacceptable Face of Freedom
It's arguable that their exploration of the extreme went further than Thee Grey Wolves would ever go since as well as just flirting with the imagery, they privately experienced and publicly performed any number of sadistic and taboo activities, of which, Cosey Fanni Tutti's exposure in pornographic magazines is probably the best remembered.
In this arena, Thee Grey Wolves succeed, despite the seeming lack of originality of their subject matter.
Many, including the Grey Wolves argue that violence is the only solution we have left to face up against the Godzilla state.
media.hyperreal.org /zines/est/articles/freedom.html   (4224 words)

  
 Grey Wolf Cellars, The Grey Wolf   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Grey wolves measure between 5 and 6 feet from nose to tail.
Grey wolves have very long and slender legs with a chest that is deep and narrow.
The grey wolf has encredibly powerful jaws capable of exerting a crushing 1500 pounds per square inch, or roughly twice that of an average domestic dog.
www.acatmeowz.com /Portfolio/Portfolio-Web/F-GreyWolf/GWgreywolf.html   (597 words)

  
 Grey Wolves Making A Strong Comeback; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Taking a New Look at Their Status
Mexican wolves have not yet reached recovery goals and are not being considered for delisting or reclassification.
Red wolves, which have been reintroduced to eastern Tennessee and North Carolina, would not be affected by the review, nor would wolves in Alaska, which have never been Federally listed as endangered or threatened.
Gray wolves in the East were virtually eliminated with the exception of several hundred animals in Minnesota.
www.r6.fws.gov /pressrel/98-28.htm   (1256 words)

  
 The MHP (Grey Wolves) and Fascism in Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: )
August 11, 1996 : Membeers of the Grey Wolves brought in from Turkey attacked a peaceful demonstration.
He alleged that Abdullah Catli, of the "Grey Wolves" participated in the arson attacks in Greece.
Turkish Deputy reveals: "Grey Wolves" are behind arson fires in Greece Turkish paramilitary organizations are responsible for arson fires in Greece's islands while, at the same time, an article published in the pro-government turkish daily "Yeni Safak" provocatively boasted in its title "We Burned Rhodes".
users.westnet.gr /~cgian/gwolves.htm   (626 words)

  
 Roosevelt Park Zoo | Grey Wolf   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wolves can be found in the United States, western Europe, and parts of eastern Europe and Asia.
Wolves are 4-5 feet in length, the males weigh 70-85 pounds and females 55-75 pounds.
In the wild wolves eat elk, caribou, deer and sheep.
www.rpzoo.com /animals/greywolf.html   (156 words)

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