Wolves

Yes, this is possible. The resulting offspring are known as hybrids and can be very difficult to own due to their wild and destructive nature. Owning a hybrid is also illegal in many countries. (I have had experience with wolf hybrids and know that they really do not make good pets).

Social Behavior

African wild dogs are highly social carnivores that live in packs. The difference in the degree of sociality in wild dogs and wolves appears to be reflected in resting patterns. The extremely social nature of wild dogs is reflected in the maintenance of physical contact or relatively short inter-individual distances while resting. Unlike wolves, they typically disperse in groups. Lone dogs and peripheral pack members are rare. Compared to wolves, aggression is generally muted. Cooperation is the key to survival and reproduction.

Pack formation in wild dogs is a social process that usually involves more than two individuals. Although the formation of new packs affects both individual fitness and population dynamics, and therefore is highly relevant to the conservation of this endangered species, little is known about the process of formation itself in the wild and the proximate mechanisms that influence outcomes.

Typically same-sex relatives emigrate and join opposite-sex groups. Our observations in the field suggest that group compatibility can influence whether stable reproductive units form. When opposite-sex groups join, they undergo what has been termed a "trial courtship" that may or may not result in the formation of a stable reproductive unit. If a new pack does not stay together, it annuls. Any given instance of pack annulment may be due to one or more causal factors that vary both temporally and regionally. An analysis of resting patterns suggests that spatial relationships mirror the relative strength of social bonds and thus the degree of social integration between females and males.

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Wild dogs resting together

Reproduction

A pack consists of any group of wild dogs with a potentially reproductive pair. Packs are typically composed of related females, related males, and pups. If a pack contains more than two adults, the reproductive pair consists of the dominant male and female. Usually only the dominant pair breeds and subordinate members help care for pups. The breeding female selects a den site such as an abandon aardvark hole and contours the underground chamber prior to giving birth. The average litter size is about 8 pups. When pups are about three weeks old, they appear above ground pug-nosed with black and white hair, and small ears that readily develop to oversized proportions. Yellow markings begin to appear at four weeks. Babysitters keep an eye on them while other family members hunt and return to the den to regurgitate food. Pups are moved to different dens during the season. When pups are around 10-12 weeks old, packs resume their nomadic way of life. By the time the pups are about 4 months old, as shown here, they are already familiar with what is expected of them as members of the pack.

Four-month old pups

Hunting

Although wild dogs will hunt at night during certain phases of the moon, they are primarily crepuscular-resting during the day and hunting in the early morning and evening. They are one of Africa's most successful hunters, a fact that has been attributed largely to their high degree of cooperation. During chases, wild dogs can attain speeds up to 60 km/h and are well adapted to deal with the body heat generated. In more enclosed habitat, where wild dogs are more commonly found, packs tend to split into groups during hunts, with individuals taking down prey, and then leaving it to bring back other pack members to feed. Unlike African lions, pups are the first to eat. Spotted hyenas sometimes follow wild dogs on hunts and try to steal food. Prey preferences vary regionally.

Wild dogs hunting

Vocalizations

The African wild dog has been classifed among the most social of all canids. The study of vocal communication has lagged behind other scientific concerns in this socially complex carnivore. Its vocal repertoire is one of the most complex in Canidae, with some sounds unique to the species. The mixing of different sound types is also found in this species and is used to express ambivalence. Vocalizations provide a useful window on larger patterns of behavior, particularly among social canids. Short-range vocal communication accompanies many social interactions and appears to play an important role in intra- and interpack dynamics, and in forming and maintaining social bonds between pack members. Depending upon the motivational state and level of arousal of pack members, sounds issued by individuals can give rise to cascading group effects.

Wild dog moving through mopane forest

Preceding a hunt, pack members often rally in a greeting ceremony. The onset of the greeting ceremony is frequently initiated by a single dog running up to another one with head shoulder height, mouth agape, and ears folded back. Muzzle-to-muzzle contact is an important feature of the ceremony. Such contact, including lip licking and biting, appears to be a symbolic solicitation for food. Greeting behavior in adults might have developed from infantile begging. During the ceremony many different kinds of sounds can be heard including whines, whimpers, squeals, and high-pitched bird-like sounds called "twitters."

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Wild dogs hunt primarily in the early morning or at dusk. When filtering through bush in search of prey, pack members frequently become separated and sometimes call to reunite. Long distance contact calls are common in canids and assume the form of either pulsed trains or long acoustic streams. Wild dogs issue the former kind of call. These sounds known as "hoos" are low-pitched and short, and given in bouts of varying length and intensity. They are delivered with the head held slightly lower than the shoulders, a gaping mouth, and often on the run. In contrast, wolves howl. These latter sounds are issued in long acoustic streams by lifting the muzzle while stationary.

i would say 2 years because that is they age when most wolves go out and find a mate but i could be wrong

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As can be found in some dictionaries, according to a certain geometry book, a wolf pack is two wolves, or a wolf pack plus a wolf. This is confusing, but it means that a wolf pack can have any number greater than one of wolves.

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The main positions in a wolf pack are

Alpha Male

Beta Male

Alpha Female

Beta Female

Then the rest are just a member of a pack

Yes, although technically speaking this is called an "Oriental". This breed is derived from the Siamese breed; it combines the body shape of a Siamese with a huge variety of colourings and patterns - far more than the colours found in the Siamese breed.

The maned wolf is only about 44 to 55 lbs. Although it is one of the tallest canids, it is far smaller (less weight) than canids like the gray wolf, which can weigh over 100 lbs, as well as some breeds of domestic dog, like the English Mastiff.

Yes people hunt and eat wolves BUT THEY ARE ALL SICK! People don't eat wolf meat rather eat cow meat.
There'll be an oddball somewhere that has tried anything, but as a rule - no. Carnivores can carry nasty parasites that can transfer to humans, so it's really not advisable.

Among the lower 48 states, Minnesota is unique because it supports a large number of timber wolves. A full grown timber wolf weighs from 70 to 100 pounds. Powerfully built with steel-strong jaws, muscular legs, and large feet, the wolf is an efficient predator. A typical Minnesota wolf is mixed gray in color with yellowish sides and darker gray on the back. However, individuals vary from almost solid black to buff-white. Timber wolves do not breed until two or three years of age. Pups are born usually in late April or early May, and number from four to eight per litter. The wolf den may be situated in a rock crevice or in a hole dug out from under the projecting roots of a tree. The wolf pack is a family group consisting of a pair of breeding adults and their young of one or more years. Only one female in a pack breeds each year, generally in February. After a nine-week gestation, an average of six pups are born in an underground den, which is often used for several years. In early summer, the pups are moved to open areas or "rendezvous sites," where the pack congregates. By fall, they are large enough to hunt with the pack. Young wolves may leave the pack when they become sexually mature in their second winter. They then attempt to find a mate, and may form a pack in an area not yet used by other packs. Individual packs defend territories of 50 to 120 square miles (usually not more than one wolf per 10 square miles), and the members of the pack usually restrict their hunting and feeding activities to that area. Most wolf packs in Minnesota contain five to eight individuals, although as many as a dozen may rarely be present. In Minnesota, wolves eat a variety of large and small animals, but white-tailed deer make up about 80 percent of their diet. Beaver are often taken in the spring and summer, while deer, and a few moose, are taken more frequently in winter. In areas of mixed farms and forest, domestic livestock are sometimes preyed upon. However, wolves prefer the large, extensive forest areas of northern Minnesota.

Timberwolves live mostly in the woods in Winter and in the mountains in Summer

The coloring of the wolves is dependant on genes and breeding just like human traits and other animal traits. Obviously the traditional brown/grey colors are dominant but black is a possibility. The species type also plays a role like the red wolves of the south.

Milk whaen they are still a few weeks old and regurgatated meat when they het their teeth.

The largest wolf on record was a male Alaskan wolf (Canis lupus pambasileus) which weighed 175 pounds. This is the largest wolf subspecies (up to 3 feet tall at the shoulder), but this individual was exceptional - they normally weigh no more than 130 pounds, occasionally up to 150. There is considerable variation in size across wolf subspecies, with more northerly populations usually being larger than more southerly ones.

I found this information on yahoo answers, but i belive there has been a bigger wolf on record, and i think it weighed 200 pounds, although I'm not particularly sure :)

Since they are not a wild animal, they live where people and dogs live.

At birth they are blind, after a little less then two weeks their eyes open. After three weeks Their milk teeth appear and they start to explore the den. After four to five weeks they Begin to eat meat and venture outside the den. After Eight to twelve weeks they Begin to join the pack on hunts. Then during the 15 - 28 week period their milk teeth are replaced. And after seven months they can start to hunt.
eat, sleep, hunt, eat, sleep, die
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They are predatory animals. They need speed to catch their prey.

meat?

In areas where there are elk, they force the elk to move around and to be on guard. This is good for vegetation, because without the fear of being eaten, elk will ravish one area before moving on. If they destroy much of the vegetation in an area (specifically the deciduous trees), they eliminate shade needed by fish in streams, make food source harder to find for beavers, which, without their dams, disrupts other stream life. Fewer or no wolves means more deer. More deer means more problems with deer within human settlements. Fewer wolves mean more human run-ins with mountain lions, since they will have little reason not to come down from the high country.
In hunting they tend to kill the weaker and sick members of the herds they hunt; leaving the stronger ones alive giving them a better chance to live and breed

A herd of cows. You can scare off wolves with a gun, or fire, but cows you can shoot at them, but they wont stop. No matter what.

Wolf pups are gradually weaned after about 2 weeks of nursing. The milk from nursing is supplemented by regurgitated food while their milk teeth are developing, and they become fully weaned after about 10 weeks.

In every kind of climate. They mostly live in: SAD, Alaska, a part of Greenland, Europe & almost the whole Asia.