Question about wolves...?

Question

I am doing a homework assignment and my brother put parental settings on with a password and this is the only site that works. I just need quick, simple, partially-scientific answers.

1 What do they eat?
2 How do they drink?
3 How do they breath?
4 How do they excrete?
5 How big do they grow?
6 How does reproduction occur?
7 What are the characteristics of the offspring?
8 How do they react to heat and cold?
9 How do they react to danger?
10 How do they compete for food and space to survive?

I don't care if you answer one or all of them. Anyone that at least puts some answer into this will get the Best Answer thingy.

Answer 1

Because wolves are mammals, the answers to questions 2, 3, 4, and 6 are the same as they are for humans. So just think of how these things work for you, and it's the same for wolves.

1. You already know what wolves eat. They are predators and they will eat caribou, deer, moose, rabbits, mice, bison, elk, ...

5. "The wolf is the largest member of the canine family. On average, wolves stand 26 to 32 inches at the shoulder and weigh 55 to 115 pounds. Females are usually slightly smaller than males." http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/wolf.html

7. "Pups are born completely blind and deaf (but have a keen sense if smell), depending on the their mother and other members of the pack. The whole pack takes care and raises the pups (non-breeding females produce milk and males compete to baby sit). Usually four to six pups are born together. This is called a litter, and the pups in a litter are called litter mates. Pups are born inside a den. A den is sometimes a small cave or a hole dug out of the ground.

Pups grow inside their mother for about 63 days before being born. At birth they weigh only one pound, and their eyes are closed. Pups grow quickly. About 12 to 15 days after they are born, they open their eyes. By two weeks of age, the pups can walk, and about a week after that, they may come out of the den for the first time. At first, they live only on milk from their mother.
In a few weeks (4-5 weeks), the pups start eating meat. This is brought to them in the stomachs of the adult wolves. The pups lick around the mouth of the adult, and the food comes back up into the adult's mouth. This sounds terrible to us, but wolf pups love it!

All the wolves in a pack help take care of the pups. When the pups are very small, other pack members bring food to the mother so she does not have to leave the den. When the pups are a little bigger, pack members "take turns" bringing them food, playing with them and even "baby sitting." Once the pups are about eight weeks old, they leave the den and start using "rendezvous sites." These are meeting places where the wolves gather to sleep, play and just "hang out." Until the pups are old enough to go with the adults, (when pups are six months old, they look almost like adult wolves. Around this time, they start hunting with the rest of the pack) they stay at the rendezvous site. Often, one of the adult wolves stays with the pups to watch over them.

Wolf pups love to play. They chase each other and roll around the way dog puppies do. Many of their games appear to be a sort of practice for the things they will do as adult wolves. Pups have been observed playing with "toys" like bones, feathers or the skins of dead animals. They "kill" the toys over and over again and carry them around as "trophies." As they get bigger, they begin to hunt small animals, like rabbits. This is all good practice for the day they join the pack for their first real hunt for large animals."
http://www.wolfcountry.net/information/WolfPup.html

That's all I have time for. Good luck with the rest.

Answer 2

1 What do they eat? meat, bones, stomach content.... wolves will leavenothing of a carcass, more often than not, because only 1 in 10 hunts are successful

2 How do they drink? They find a water source just like the rest of us.

3 How do they breath? same way we do...with lungs

4 How do they excrete? same way we do

5 How big do they grow? usually 85 pounds to 150 pounds....I'm not sure about exact height, but the size of a fairly large dog

6 How does reproduction occur? sexual intercourse

7 What are the characteristics of the offspring? small, obviously, with kinda smushedfaces....the longer noses develop as they pups grow, just like dog puppies. Their personalities are very much thesame as puppies, actually, and some aremore dominant than others.

8 How do they react to heat and cold? same as we do.....

9 How do they react to danger? depends on the dangr.They will either run away or stand thei ground to protect themselves and the pack. In a pack, they will usually team up to fight the danger. Protecting pups is a priority and is mainly done by the Omega wolf, lower-ranking females, and other pups who are older. the alpha male, beta male, and male biders are usually the main aggressors when the pack needs protection.

10 How do they compete for food and space to survive? Wolves will usually form packs of 6 to 10; they hunt, play, and do everything else in the packs. They are predators and will be rather territorial. Currently, the biggest danger to wolf populations is the presence of humans, who tend to take over the wolves' natural habitats. Wolves usually can't defend themselves against this, and there has NEVER been any documented case of a healthy wild wolf ever attacking a human.

Answer 3

1 meat
2. lapping up water
3. same as us
4. same as us kidneys and bladder
5. ~120 lbs but usually much smaller
6. Alpha males and females do most of the mating. The pack takes care of the young.
7. Very helpless
8. Some can stand cold but many are adapted to very cold weather. They release heat by panting.
9. They run or sometimes become aggressive in numbers.
10. They mark their territories with howling and urinating on trees or bushes. They will fight if any other wolf enters their territory.

Answer 4

1-4: same as dogs
5 same as German Shepard dogs
6 same as dogs
7-8 same as German Shepard dogs
9 run away unless protecting young
10 each pack has a territory and defends it by fighting off all competing intruders.

Answer 5

Why dont you search in google. Lazy girl -.-