Wolves

Thanks to a learning kit from the Minnesota DNR, we learned about wolves during the week of Halloween.  Many people think of wolves as being scary creatures.  We found out that wolves are a lot more like us than we realized.  Here are some similarities we found...

Wolves eat meat, and so do most of us.  We both have canine teeth, although their canine teeth are much longer.

Wolves communicate with each other using body language, just like us.  They also use howling to locate family members, to alert other wolves of danger in the area, and for pups to ask their mothers for food.  Check out some of the howling we did in the video below...

Wolves are mammals, just like us!  They have fur that covers their body to keep them warm and get milk from their mothers when they are young.  We looked at fur from wolves and compared them to other mammals.

For more information on wolves in Minnesota, check out www.wolf.org!