A pack is usually made up of a male parent, a female parent, their pups and a few other adult wolves who are the older brothers and sisters. The pack works together to hunt for food and to take care of the pups. An average adult female wolf in Minnesota weighs 60 to 80 pounds. Males usually weigh 80 to 100 pounds. They reach adult size by nine months of age and will run with the pack their first winter.
Wolves are predators.
That means they kill and eat other animals for food. Depending on where they live, wolves live mainly on the meat from such animals as deer, moose, elk or bison. They also eat beavers, rabbits and even mice. They do not eat humans. In fact, wolves are very shy around people and try to avoid them in the wild.