Wolves - Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
Meet the Pack The natural history of wolves is closely tied to their unique and highly-developed social structure: the pack. Pack sizes average from 5 to 6 individuals, but packs numbering up to 20 and 30 wolves have occasionally been recorded.
Wolf Species Profile, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
The average pack size is six or seven animals, and pack members often include some yearlings and other adults. Packs of 20 to 30 wolves sometimes occur, and these larger packs may have two or three litters of pups from more than one female. The social order in the pack is characterized by a separate dominance hierarchy among females and males.
Living With Wolves - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Hearing a howling wolf or seeing a traveling wolf pack can be an exhilarating wilderness experience and should be enjoyed, but everyone who leaves the beaten path behind must take on the responsibility to ensure their own safety. If you encounter a wolf or pack of wolves at close range do not run or turn away.
The Wolf in Alaska – Wolf Song of Alaska
Although pack size usually ranges from 2 – 12 animals, packs of as many as 20 – 30 wolves sometimes occur. The average size pack is 6 – 7 animals. In most areas wolf packs tend to remain within a territory used almost exclusively by pack members, with occasional overlap in the ranges of neighboring packs.
The East Fork (Toklat) Wolves – Wolf Song of Alaska
In the late 1930’s, biologist Adolph Murie began observing the intimate details of a family of wolves living in the wild, known as the East Fork Pack. For two years he followed them on foot summer and winter, as well as monitored the moose, …
Alaska Wolves - National Wolfwatcher Coalition
In Alaska the territory of a pack often includes from 300 to 1,000 square miles of habitat with the average being about 600 square miles. Alaska is home to the largest remaining population of gray wolves in the United States.
Wolves - Denali National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
Wolves live in family groups called packs and travel over vast expanses of Alaskan terrain to hunt, feed, and raise pups. Although they are one of the most studied species in the park, we discover more about wolves every year.
wolves - Alaska Nature and Science (U.S. National Park Service)
Jul 16, 2019 · Alaska is home to an estimated 7,000 to 11,000 wolves. Wolf packs vary in size and range between Alaska's parks, for example, sometimes wolves disperse between Denali National Park and Preserve and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve .
The Riley Creek pack’s sole survivor | Geophysical Institute
Feb 28, 2019 · Riley’s pack challenged the wolves of the Grant Creek pack, which hunted on neighboring lands to the west and south. The Grant Creek pack was 12 strong, but the Riley-led pack of 14 was too much. After a series of chases and battles, two Grant Creek females, including the matriarch, lay dead.
Interior Alaskan wolf - Wikipedia
Average pack size is 7 to 9 wolves, but can vary; like other wolves, the pack consists of a mated pair and their offspring. The pair is usually the only ones that breed. A wolf that has left its pack may travel up to 500 km (310.7 mi) to breed. The minimum breeding age is 1 year, and the average litter size is 4–6 pups. [12]
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