The Canis Lupus Group

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For the strength of the pack is the wolf. The strength of the wolf is the pack. (Rudyard Kipling) The Canis Lupus group as demonstrated to its morphological adaptations for hunting large prey, it's more gregarious nature, and also its highly advanced expressive nature as well. Wolves are also one of the only canis groupe having a part in both the new and old worlds. They also originated in Eurasia during the Pleistocene, colonizing North America on multiple separate occasions. This was in the Rancholabrean. Nevertheless wolves are an extremely social animal, traveling in nuclear families. Thus usually consisting of the Alpha Mated pair, and their offspring. In this essay I am going to talk about a few things I find fascinating about one of …show more content…
The first topic I’m going to talk about is some facts about wolves. First and foremost, I'm going to talk about the different breeds of wolves. I feel like people should know some different breeds of wolves can have different behavior styles especially in mating season. The males can be fairly more aggressive and the females are a lot more submissive. Also Arctic Wolves hunt and scavenge for their food. The next thing about wolves I’m going to talk about is why people should know there scientifique name. I don’t really think there is a reason that you should know their scientific names its cool to know these names. It may be helpful to know a few of these scientific names if your a wildlife officer, or a wildlife servaer. Some of these names include canis Lupus (Gray Wolf), Canis lupus hodophilax (Japanese Wolf) which is now extinct, or maybe the Canis …show more content…
The first part of this paragraph will be me talking about the puppy behavior. Wolf pups act very similar to actual domesticated dog breeds when they are puppys. For example at around 20-24 days playing at the den entrance will begin, 30-50 days dominance play will start to occur and 60-77 days the wolf pups will start to follow their parents or relatives up to a mile away from the mothers den. Canines are a lot like the common child they want everything to be fair and equal, the plus side they don't throw temper tantrums if they don’t get their way. For the most part the wolves of the pack all have a common goal which is to please the Alpha if they don't these can result into punishment. Another essential point to this topic is pack rank. Most of the time ranks are two of opposite gender.There are many different ranks to a wolf pack such as Omega which is the lowest ranking wolves these two wolves usually are considered the packs chew toy. They bear the brunt of the pack their the submissives. Next are the betas. Think of them like an advisor of the advisor they are also second in command if a beta challenges one of the two alphas this battle is to the death or until one of them forfeits. The last and final rank is the alpha which is the leader of the pack the female alpa is the advisor to the male alpha who is also his
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