Mammal

Our family unit, which we call “pack”, generally includes 5 to 6 individuals. Social behaviors within the pack are highly developed and hierarchical.

We hunt in packs to take down the biggest members of the cervidae family. I need 2 to 3 kg of meat per day. We can spend up to 10 days cleaning an adult moose carcass and a little less than 3 days for a smaller fawn.

Summer, as in winter, we like to travel in a straight line one behind the other, nose to tail. The French even have an expression, “à la queue leu leu”, derived from the ancient French spelling of “leu” that means wolf… So they are really saying “to the tail wolf wolf”. Crazy isn’t it!

Many people misidentify us and believe we are our cousin the Coyote! But they are smaller and their ears and nose are more pointed. Furthermore they carry their tail rather low, while wolves hold our tails proudly high! Coyotes are usually solitary creatures while we wolves live in packs.