by McKenna Tidd
Grade 3, Mill Pond School
Welcome to the Wolf Pack
The wolf pack is one of the safest places for the lower rank wolves. Wolves are the most fierce hunters of the forest. They are sometimes greedy and fight over food. The wolf pack has up to eight or more wolves and one to two leaders. Wolves are sometimes aggressive and attack you, but sometimes they are more afraid of you than you are of them, so if a wolf runs from you don’t attack it because it won’t attack you.
Wolf to Dog
Dogs have fur and they are related to wolves. Wolves have fur and are related to dogs. Dogs have different colors, they eat meat, and they hunt. Wolves have different colors, they eat meat, and they hunt. Dogs are trained and don’t attack you unless they are commanded to. Wolves aren’t trained and attack you sometimes. Dogs aren’t wild, they don’t live in dens, and they don’t attack other animals unless they are hunting. Wolves are wild, they live in dens, and attack other animals.
What Do Wolves in a Pack Do?
The beta trains the apprentices. It goes out of the territory to hunt. The omega does not go out of the territory because it does not hunt. It only hunts if the alpha or the beta is injured and it trains inside of the territory. The alpha will go out of the territory to find a mate or to hunt and train the apprentices. The pup has to stay in the den. It cannot go out of the alpha’s sight until it’s old enough. The apprentice or pups in training go out of the territory to be taught to be a beta or alpha and it stays in the territory to be an omega. The alpha is the top wolf. The beta is the helper of the alpha. The omega is a hunter if the alpha is sick or hurt. The apprentice gets trained. The pup is the lowest rank and mostly does nothing.
How Do Wolves Hunt?
Wolves run aside their prey or kill it by grabbing its neck or mouth to suffocate the animal. They might bite the legs to make the animal trip and fall to kill it. They can jump on the back of an animal to make it get distracted so the other wolves can kill it.
What Are Some of the Rules of Packs?
There can’t be a blind, deaf, or injured pack member because it’s no good to the pack and the other wolves will kill it. The beta or alpha has to watch a pup so it does not wander off. Pups cannot leave the den area because a bear or another wolf will kill it. If there is another wolf on a pack’s territory that wolf will be killed because it doesn’t belong to the pack, and it might attack a pup.
What Wolves are There?
Black Wolf – There is the black wolf that has black/midnight black fur, golden eyes and is seen in the wild.
Arctic Wolf – The arctic wolf has white or snow colored fur, blue or golden eyes, mostly seen in the arctic.
Timber Wolf – The timber wolf has silver fur, golden eyes, and is almost extinct but the number of them is coming back up.
Brown Wolf – The brown wolf has brown fur, golden eyes, is seen in the wild.
Albino – The male albino wolf has white fur with a tint of yellow in it. The female albino wolf has white fur, red eyes, and is seen in the wild.
White Wolf – The white wolf has white fur, golden or blue eyes, is seen in the wild.
Gray Wolf – The gray wolf has gray fur, golden eyes, seen in the wild.
Japanese Wolf – The Japanese wolf has golden, red, or orange fur, any colored eyes, is extinct, or are they?
What Sounds to Watch Out For
Watch out for a growl because it might be a mother or a leader wolf protecting a cub or pack. A pup yelps because the mother or the pack will come to its safety. Watch out for a wolf fight because the fight might stop and come to you! Just remember most times they are more scared of you than you are of them.
What are Wolf Pups?
Wolf pups are a low rank in the pack. They’re not allowed to leave the den area. They are a small wolf from a grown female wolf, wolf pups are born in a litter of three to five, and they cannot hunt until eleven or twelve weeks old. A wolf has to watch the pup or it might die. Never kill a pup. If you do the mom or the leader of the pack will get mad and attack you.
