For example, there is no record of a healthy wolf ever trying to kill a human in North America. Perhaps by learning about the wolf and how it lives in the natural world, we can begin to tell the difference between the real animal and the fables we ve created. W olves, like humans, are very adaptable to different climates and surroundings. At one time, wolves roamed across nearly all of North America, Europe, and Asia. Wolves can live in forests, grasslands, mountains, and swamps, even in the frozen, treeless tundra of the far north.
Wolves can also eat most anything the catch, from a moose to a mouse.
W olves may look very different from each other. A wolf might be almost any color, from black to white, through shades and mixtures of cream, gray, brown and red. O f all the sounds a wolf makes, its howl is the most familiar. A wolf howls by pointing its nose to the sky and then giving voice to a single high-pitched sound that rises sharply and then slides down in rippling waves. A wolf howls by itself or in groups of twos or threes.