Wolf sleeping habits:
Wolves are known to be nocturnal, active, moving and moving from one place to another, and can travel more than twenty kilometers per day while hunting [2]; Therefore, you need to rest and sleep. Wolves search for a suitable place to sleep during the day, and rarely sleep in a hole or den, and prefer sleeping in open areas that accommodate members of the herd. Wolves surround the area that you choose before settling in a ring, and for the Alpha Wolf It is always a priority to choose where you want to sleep.
A study indicates that predators relax or sleep approximately (30%) of the day to compensate for the effort they make during hunting, and regain their strength, and with regard to wolves, they sleep when food is abundant simply because they can do so, but when food is scarce, they sleep because they You need to sleep. In the seasons of food shortage, ten days may pass without wolves eating any type of food, and during this period she will lose between 8-10% of her body weight, but she can compensate for that when she finds food she eats and goes to rest after that.
Feeding the wolves:
Wolves are predators, and they can hunt many animals, such as: mice, birds, goats, sheep, deer, moose, and musk oxen. Wolves are hunted collectively, and their hunting is often focused on easy prey; Like young, sick, or older individuals who have lost their strength, wolves have strong jaws that enable them to easily penetrate the skin of animals and break their hard bones, and are also fast-moving; As the speed during hunting reaches (62) kilometers per hour, when wolves catch hunting and abundance, they eat as much as they can, because they realize that they may not find food before the passage of several days.
Social life:
The flock of wolves usually consists of (8-9) individuals, and includes the male, the dominant female (alpha) and their offspring; However, there are herds consisting of larger numbers of individuals that may reach (20-30) individuals. The male and female herd are commanded by the alpha who have leadership skills and the ability to organize hunting. Wolves live within regional regions that are bordered by the scents they produce, and also by barking. Wolves communicate with each other using some signs. They highlight their teeth with the issuance of a thrill as a kind of threat, raise their tail high to express anxiety or concern, and lower the body and tail as a sign of submission, as they flatten their ears and return them back also to signify anxiety, and leave wolves as a stool. Urine on rocks and trees is a message to other wolves, and it also continues to sound many tones. Like barking, kitten, whining, whimpering, and howling. The wolves howl for various reasons. They howl to collect the herd for hunting and arouse enthusiasm, when waking from sleep, when playing, and as a kind of announcement of the strength and size of the herd, and to warn and warn other wolves, as a kind of celebration, and for fun, as for the collective howl that consists of several different sounds and tones It is believed that it aims to strengthen social ties between members of the herd.
Wolves mate between February and April, and it is known that only the dominant wolves (Alfa) can mate, and have their own offspring. The female gives birth between (1-11) puppies; However, the average number of puppies is five or six in the abdomen, after a pregnancy period of approximately two months, the mother gives birth in a den, or slit a rock, or tree trunk, and the mother and some females breastfeed the puppies, the young are weaned after (6-9) Weeks from her birth, and she starts eating the meat that a member of the herd chews, and after a few weeks, the pups are removed from the hole to join the adults, all the members of the herd take care of the pups and teach them visual, tactile, and aural communication, and when they reach six months they can participate in hunting and follow up The herd is in constant movement, and when the wolf reaches the age of two it becomes an adult, and it can separate from the herd and search for a region of its own, and it may establish its own herd and acquire the right to breed, and it is known that wolves that separate from their herd may travel a distance of (886) kilometers. Some children may stay with the flock and eventually replace the mother and the father.