Sunday 6 April 2014

Carrying on with the project


Well with this wolf thing last time I don't think I did enough and I shall do three/four more now and I like doing it, you actually learn a lot when you try to research more about it and now it's time for my two wolves. A Mexican Gray wolf and an Alaska Tundra wolf.


Mexican Gray Wolf 

Well to start off all the wolves here are a sub-species of the Gray wolf. This Latin named wolf is Canis Lupus Baileyi and this time I will start off with it's appearance. It has light brown fur on it's back long legs and a sleek body all but one of these features allowing it to be super speedy. I also think you should know about it's history and about how because of human beings, is now still the most endangered sub-species of wolf there is. Now, although they once had thousands of them roaming across their land people along side wolves hunted and fought these wolves. Thus meaning when the 1970's came there was only a few left in zoos. After being bread and kept safe in 1998 the fish and wildlife service made  these species endangered and let 11 wolves free into the wild. Finally after years and years now these wolves numbers have climbed up slowly. To finish it off I am going to just give some facts such as height and length. 
Fact file
Life span: If in captivity 15 years if in wild not higher than 10 years
Length: 4.5-5.5 that's from the tail tip to the edge of the nose
Height: 26-32 inches at the shoulder ( where wolves are measured up to) 
Weight: 60-80 pounds males more heavier and taller than females


Alaskan Tundra Wolf

Once again this is a sub-species of a Gray wolf and it's Latin name is Canis Lupus Tundrarum. Like the last one I am going to tell you a bit about it's history. In 1912 this wolf was discovered and named as the Alaskan Tundra Wolf, sub-species of a Gray wolf, this was by a zoologist named Gerrit Smith Miller. There is many different theories that this is just another version of wolves such as: the Alaskan wolf, Mackenzie valley wolf or some even think it is another version of a Mackenzie Tundra wolf. People may think that this is another version of all of these wolves well, they are sort of right because a lot of characteristics are the same. Time to move onto the characteristics and comparing later. They live along the Arctic coast of Northern Alaska and are quite heavy as males are 85-176 pounds and females at 80-120 pounds. When they are seen most often they are seen in white coats however, dark coats including black and there hair or fur isn't really long making it not as long as the European Tundra wolf. This animal is more of an omnivore so, they will eat any vegetation deer and other smaller animals. The breeding part now (which I personally don't like.) Together the top or dominant female and male shall mate  and the female should have about 4 babies, together the whole pack will then bring them up.

I will be doing more on this later next week! :) 


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