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! :) 

Totally new thing

My  friend absolutely loves this subject I don't know why but that is what he is obsessed with so, that is the thing I am going to be writing about. It is a pretty big topic so if your not in the mood for reading loads right now, please read another post or come back later thanks. Now is the fun part where I tell you what this subject is (or maybe not). It is part of nature but nothing to do with what I was talking about in my last few posts have a small guess. I also have another thing that will be coming up in a few days and this is because we haven't used our shed for soooooooooooooooooooooooo long, Robins have moved in but I will do that on my next post. Now then, I have probably annoyed you a lot know so the new subject is: wolves. I know you might think this is kind a odd as so far I don't think I've typed anything about other animals, ( meaning nothing but birds) and as this is wildlife blog I thought about taking my friend (sarbaz's) idea and putting it in. Time to get into wolves. Just to tell you what I am
going to do I am only going to type about these 3 species of wolves. Gray wolf,Indian wolf and Arctic wolf.
Lets start with the Gray wolf and carry on in that order. By the way I'm sorry I had to keep you waiting but don't take this to heart but I kind of find it funny so, that is why there is a lot of blank.

















Gray wolf

To start off the Latin name for the Gray wolf is Canis Lupus, it is native to the snow and wilderness of North America, North Africa and Eurasia. It is known to be the largest member of the wolf family some males weighing from 43-45 kg and females at 36-38.5 kg. As many people know the Gray wolf is literally one

"Gray wolf"
 of the most extremely researched and well known type of animal in the entire world. This isn't actually a fact but there is probably more books written about this animal than any other there is. Amazingly this wolf is an Apex predator meaning that it is at the top of the food chain however, there are two animals that pose an amazingly high amount of threat to these creatures: the human and the tiger. Now I don't want to make this to long so I will  just give you a few more facts.
Although it feeds mainly on a large group of mammals called ungulates it also munches on smaller animals and garbage. Now let's move onto the Mexican wolf.

Indian wolf

This one I'll start off differently so, let's start with the appearance and weight the size that sort of stuff. These brown haired small creatures only being 3 ft longways and 66 cm in height up to the shoulder that is, are not surprisingly smaller than the Eurasian wolf. Just like Arabian wolves the fur on these little creatures becomes short and thin in summer still though, the hair on it's back stays long even in summer! Now, in the winter there coat is long but not as long as  the Northern subspecies (A lower species of another type of animal e.g. an Indian wolf is the subspecies of a Gray wolf.) 

Indian wolves can be recognised different from Arabian wolves because they are bigger and have much larger heads, also they have darker fur. Now I have one big word CANNIBALISM. These wolves sometimes live in places that have pretty much no food so, they are forced to eat each other. I bet your thinking right now urr nasty but it's true. If they have nothing to eat  they go ahead and eat each other, sometimes it ends up in a real big fight but they don't care even if they have to at the end sacrifice everything. And, I think that's all the info I got for you guys right now. As you probably know i should have given you the Latin name so here it is: Canis Lupus Pallipes.





Arctic wolf



Well on this one I think I'll go back to the first one again and give you the Latin name first, well it's Canis Lupus Arctos, secondly like the Indian,Bernard's,Mexican Gray, Vancouver island and many more wolves this is a subspecies of the Gray wolf. You can tell which subspecies this is in because of it's Latin name. The Gray wolf and Canis Lupus is just one but there are more maybe I don't know but maybe for other animals too! Arctic wolves live in some of the most harsh places ever this, is where the ground is permanently frozen and the air temperature extremely rarely rises above 30 degrees. These are one of the only animals that can actually survive these severe and harsh conditions. However, all animals and insects including human beings are put here for a reason, you may not think it but even mosquito's who only kill humans to lay their eggs (which is probably what I will be doing next) have a job. Now, I don't want to leave you sitting there trying to figure out what it is so it is to kill humans and live, it is one of the most unusual jobs but just think, if all the humans that died by Malaria were still here imagine how crowded this world would be. Just to leave you thinking on that note I did that. Time to get back to the Arctic Wolf, this creature lives in packs of 6 but sometimes live on their own. They are usually smaller than Gray wolves but I guess it's like that with most sub-species, the legs ears and muzzles are not as big as Gray wolves. They live for about 7 years when in the wild however, when in a zoo/in captivity they live for a whopping 20 years meaning 13 years  more! Considering they are carnivores and live in extra badly harsh conditions they have a pretty big diet anyway, this is what they eat: Musk Oxen, Peary Caribou, Arctic foxes (as I explained in the last one they are Cannibals), ptarmigan, Lemmings,Seals, Nesting birds and  Arctic Hares.

And if you want to save and adopt a Gray wolf or another type of animal head to the wwf website on your phone or pc. here is the one for the Gray wolf however, on the side where I have my fave wildlife blogs and sites there will be one if you want to adopt another animal.

gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-center/gifts/Species-Adoptions/Gray-Wolf.aspx?sc=AWY1302WC922