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What do gray wolves prey on?

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8y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Wolves primarily feed on medium to large sized ungulates (sometimes 10-15 times larger than themselves), though they are not fussy eaters. Medium and small sized animals preyed on by wolves include marmots, hares, badgers, foxes, polecats, squirrels, mice, hamsters, voles and other rodents. They frequently eat waterfowl (particularly during their moulting period and winter, when their greasy and fatty meat helps wolves build up their fat reserves) and their eggs. In times of scarcity, wolves will readily eat carrion, visiting cattle burial grounds and slaughter houses. Humans are rarely, but occasionally preyed upon. Wolves will supplement their diet with fruit and vegetable matter; they willingly eat the berries of mountain ash, bilberries, blueberries and lily of the valley. Other fruits include nightshade, apples and Pears.
rabbits, squrrles,

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