Earth Ranger Raveena discovered Earth Rangers while looking online for ways to help protect wolves. A huge fan of canines, and wolves in particular, she was interested in doing something to raise awareness for this often misunderstood animal. “I first started liking animals because they were cute, but as I got older canines became my favourite animals. I started spending so much time with my dog and learning about other canines. That’s when I came across a documentary about wolves and decided to learn more about them.”
We’re so glad Raveena discovered Earth Rangers and is now helping to raise awareness for wolves through this fact-filled blog that she wrote for us. Take it away Raveena…
Did you know the gray wolf (Canis lupus) is the largest member in its family? Male gray wolves average about 100 pounds but can weigh up to 130 pounds. Gray wolves can run up to 60 km/h! They are extremely amazing creatures.
A wolf can survive on two and a half pounds of food per day, but each wolf needs an average of seven pounds of food each day to reproduce successfully. That means in order to feed a whole pack of six wolves they would need over 15,000 pounds of food each year. What an appetite!
Wolves are mostly known for their spine tingling howls! A cool fact is that wolves prefer to howl from elevated areas, to project their sound farther! They howl to communicate with other wolves. Click here to listen to wolves howling!
Other than hunting to eat, wolves are usually not aggressive. However, they will fight other animals and even wolves in other packs in order to protect their own pack and territory. I think this is why many people believe that wolves are violent and aggressive.
Right now humans are a bigger threat to them than they are to us. Forest habitat loss is also a major threat to wolves.
So cool I love love love this article best one yet. The pics are soooo cute
yup
yeah the pictures are awesome !i wonder why wolves eat so much?
cause they live in a big group
true they are so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They must be REALLY hungry 😉
Omg thank you SO MUCH! Ya I’m Raveena! Lol. Thanks for the support it took a really long time!!! 😛
I WOULD just like to add, I have a campaign for wolves, and would be super happy if you started one too!!! THANKS
RAVEENA
I learned that wolves are not aggressive creatures. They are territorial and will only attack if they are threatened or feel threatened.
I learned that wolves are territorial and that is why they might attack people. We need to take better care of the forests so that they don’t lose more space to live in.
The baby wolf is so cute
Cool! It has lots of information about them!
REALLY INTERESTING! And I have a campaign supporting the Eastern Wolf! 🙂
The wolf pup is so CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i’l save them
ASOME!