The Amazing Wolves
Wolves are very cool, but dangerous animals. They can run fast, travel far, and are kind of light weighted. They can also keep themselves warm while they sleep in frozen tundra. They hunt their prey, protect their family, and stay together in a pack. Dogs originated from wolves.
Almost 12,000 years ago humans began to domesticate wolves. People raised wolf pups and they kept the tamest ones to be their own pet. Over thousands of years the babies of pups raised by humans changed and grew much tamer. All though, wolves will always be wild animals, domesticated wolves gradually became the dogs we know today.
Of course wolves became the dogs we know today, but you can’t forget some of the dogs we know today are not as fierce and as fast as wolves. Wolves can run at a top speed of 30 miles per hour. I only know a couple of dogs that can run faster than that. A wolf out in the wild can cover 20 or 30 miles of land in a day, but journeys more than 100 miles in twenty-four hours. I have never saw or heard of a dog that can do that.
Wolves are almost always in a pack, whether it is a pair or a couple dozen. When there is a wolf pack there is always an alpha male. An alpha male is like the leader of the pack. The alpha male is always a male. When the alpha male sticks his head up towards the sun or the moon and howls it means it’s time to hunt.
Wolves are fierce hunters and always on their guard. A wolf can weigh 80 to 100 pounds and are as tall as 3 feet at the shoulder. Wolves can survive in -300 and -400 F. What wolves do is go around and around until they make a spot for them self to lie in the snow. Then they curl up into a little ball cover their nose with their bushy tail.
Wolves are fierce, fast, dangerous, traveling, and light weighted beast of the wild. They can survive in the frozen tundra unlike most animals. Protect family, hunt prey, and stay in a pack together. They are wolves.
