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**Gray Wolves**

** How Many Babies do Gray Wolves Have? **
Gray Wolves have up to four babies. Sometimes they have up to six babies. They usually have their babies somewhere around spring and summer. Adults that are girls usually do the feeding. Adult girls such as the teenage daughters and the mother are the main wolves of the family that feed the babies. Baby wolves are also known as pups. Pups are very playful. They often play in the grass. Sometimes they practice fighting in the grass with there brothers and sisters for when predators attack and to attack their prey for when the young pups grow up to be fine grown up wolves.

What are their predators?
Gray Wolves don"t have many predators. Their only predators are bears and pumas.

What do they eat?
Gray Wolves eat lots of things such as moose, caribou, bison, beavers, rabbits, squirrels, and fish.

Where do they live?
They live in a few places. A few of the places are in Saskatchewan, North America (Canada), the treeless plains, Alaska, and Minnesota.

How do Gray Wolves communicate?
Gray Wolves communicate by whimpering, growling, barking, whining, howls, and pants.

What are their adaptations?
Their adaptations are they have wooly fur coats to keep them warm in the winter so they don't freeze to death. They have sharp hearing for when a predator is coming. They have teeth with crunching pressure to chew through their prey's bones easier. They can also run forty miles per hour.

**Fun Facts**
**-largest of all wild dogs** **-weight ranges between 60 and 135 pounds** **-lives six to eight years** **-scientific name is //Canis lupus//** **-eats about 20 pounds in one meal (more than 80 hamburgers)** **-prance about happily and bows lowering front of body with their rump in the air with their tail wagging** These animals are very cool to learn about. These animals are beautiful animals and are very, very smart. This is an endangered kind. Help these animals before they are extinct.
 * -young usually stay in parents pack for at least 2 to 3 years before they make their own pack **

= **Written By Ceili April Bracha** =