Though most howling is done as night falls and is often used to assemble the pack for a night's hunting, wolves may howl at any time of the day or night to keep in touch. One of the most thrilling, spine-tingling sounds in the world, wolves can be induced to howl quite easily. Information Wolf is the common name for, and the largest of the species that, with coyotes, jackals, foxes and domestic dogs, make up the genus, Canis. The wolf is a social animal and though most packs are made up of four to seven individuals, large packs may include as many as fifty wolves. The average weight ofthe North American wolf is in the sixty to one hundred pound range, but mayweigh as much as 175 pounds.
Females are fifteen to twenty percent smaller than the males.
Wolves range from all shades of gray, tan and brown topure white or solid black. Possessing the third strongest jaws of all land mammals, the wolf may have a crushing pressure of l,500 pounds per square inch. Though driven nearly to extinction in the lower 48 states, efforts are now underway with reintroduction programs to help re-establish the wolf population. Our Wolves Ten wolves reside at the Wildlife Waystation. Five of these beautiful creatures are among our most popular education animals and can frequently be seen on our Tour Sunday Animal Presentations.