Describing the Wolf

A wolf body is made for chasing large animals and bringing them down. To do this, they have excellent senses to for bringing them down and they have muscles and long legs for running fast. They have very strong jaws and teeth for holding prey. Wolves are the largest wild dogs and bigger then most domestic dogs. A large wolf can be three feet tall and almost 612 ft long! It can weigh more then 100 pounds. Females are smaller then males. When wolves hunt the color of their fur can help them get closer to their prey without being seen. The colors of the fur can blend in well with the background colors in the landscape, causing them to disappear from sight of prey. To protect themselves when it rains or snows, wolves have three "capes" of fur on their back. Water runs off these capes like it runs off of a raincoat. The hair on these capes can be five inches long. Wolves are fast runners - this is partly because they have long legs like stilts. Long legs make it possible to take longer steps as it runs. Wolves have big feet - when they are running over snow or muddy ground their big feet act like snowshoes and also help the wolves feet so they do not sink in the snow. Wolves may look different from each other…in fact when it comes to fur; every wolf seems to be different than any other wolf. Many people who study wolves often patterns and colors to tell one wolf apart from another in the same way that you might look at human faces to tell one person from another.