The northern male may reach 6.6 feet long including a twenty-inch tail. A wolf may weight between 100 to 120 pounds and stand 26 to 32 inches tall at the shoulders. This is two to three times larger than the coyote. The wolf has forty teeth with the canines or fangs reaching 2.25 inches long in their massive jaws. This makes it easier for the wolf to hook its teeth in the nose of moose as it goes for a kill.
Wolves have extremely good senses.
Their hearing and vision is also extremely sharp. The wolf has a life span of 16 years in captivity and about eight years in the wild. Wolves are extremely social animals. The wolf is a group hunter, i.e. the pack. The pack consists of about seven animals that travel together, hunt, feed, and rest together in a loose association.