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. Each pack has a primary breeding pair called the alpha male and female. Each pack also has the omega, which serves as the scapegoat or low man on the totem pole. As the pack grows, young or subordinate wolves, called dispersers, leave the birth pack.