These packs are a strong social unit with an alpha male and female wolf and their offspring. The wolf pack works as a team to hunt, protect, and to raise the spring's pups. Such cooperation and sharing of food is rare in the animal world. There are no reports of wolves attacking people in Denali. There is now 60 years of research recorded on wolves throughout the park.
Wolves can hunt bigger animals like moose because they hunt in packs.
The territories of wolf packs in Alaska range in size from 300 to 1,000 square miles, with the average territory being 600 square miles. In 48 states, the gray wolf is listed as an endangered species. In northern Minnesota, the gray wolf is classified as threatened . Reproduction Wolves normally breed in February and March and litter s averaging about five pup s are born in May or early June. At birth pups weight less than 1 pound, they are blind, deaf, and helpless.