However, in the wild, wolves are lucky to live beyond eight or nine years. Northern wolves may have a reddish tinge on their head, ears, shoulders, and legs, but not on their backs. All other wolves are subspecies of these two species. Diet Wolves are opportunistic feeders accustomed to a feast-famine existence. They often go for many days without eating and then gorge as much as twenty pounds in a single sitting, and as such will eat anything that moves.
Red wolves have a broadly similar diet with more emphasis on the smaller prey species.
She is dependent upon the rest of the pack for food for the next three weeks. Within two months of birth, the cubs are weaned, and eating solid food. They are now one third adult size. As soon as the trip is over, the cubs, exhausted from their first long-distance foray, flop down and go to sleep. For the next few months, this will be the pack's summer home and open air nursery.