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Here are some videos about wolves if you'd like to have a better idea of how a wolf's life is. A pack social bahavor, hunting tatics, pack rivality, etc.

This videos may have the basic information about wolves that you have to know. Watch it if you want.

Wolves are not like felines, they don't hide from their prey and don't use their claws. The wolves patrol elk herds [or any other prey.] looking for any weakness. The wolves are made for long distance chases that will get their prey tired. When they can finally reach the prey they will bite it on the legs, chest, neck, butt, and whereever their jaws can bite easly. Hunting alone wont be easy wolves need company in hunts or they might loose the prey.

In fights the wolves still don't use their claws, but they might use their front paws to hold the opponent a while they bite it and try to rip out the opponent's fur and skin. They might bite their opponent on the neck as they do with prey, not letting the oppenent breath. The wolves pointy teeth will always be used to penetrate the oppenent's skin.

Wolves can get injuries from large prey animals that defend themselves, when the pack attacks a large moose or bison they can receive injuries from kicks and if the prey had antlers or horns it can cause a lot of damage. Wolves can be trampled under the hooves, Artist George Catlin reported an 1844 attack on a buffalo by a pack of wolves in which two of the wolves had been crushed to death under the hooves of the animal.

Man also causes injuries to wolves, leg-hold traps, illegal hunting, wolves being hit by cars (rare), poisoning (one wolf was known to die from drinking from a antifreeze spill on the road).

Other wolf injuries are caused by falls from rock ledges, drowning in swift rivers, fights with other wolves (territory disputes or near mating season), attacks by bears, infections from porcupine quills. In Denali National park in Alaska two wolves were killed in an avalanche.

Wolves are susceptible to more than one hundred diseases and parasites, including roundworm, tape worm, flatworm, mange, mites, ticks, fleas, distemper, cataracts, oral papillomatosis, tularemia, bovine tuberculosis, arthritis, cancer, rickets, pnumonia, Lyme disease, and many other ailments.

External parasites tend to be less of a problem in the cold northern regions

Mange is caused by tiny mites that attach themselves to a wolfs fur or skin, In Sarcoptic mange, intense itching is caused by the female mites' burrowing under the skin to lay eggs. In demodectic mange, the mites live in the pores of the skin and cause little or no itching. The symptoms of mange include skin lesions, crusting, and fur loss. Wolves that suffer mange in the winter are in danger of freezing to death.

Canine distemper is a very contagious disease caused by a microscopic virus. The disease is often centers on the skin, eye membranes, and intestinal tract, and occasionally the brain. Symptoms include fever, loss of appetite, and a discharge from the eyes and nose. Diarrhea and dehydration may follow, in the final stages seizures may occur.

Contrary to popular myth, rabies is very rare in wolves. This was not the case a century ago. Most rare cases today are cause my contracting the disease from skunks, raccoons, bats, or foxes. (Ninety-eight percent of rabies today in North America is from them)

Wolves predominately prey on hoofed animals including Deer, moose, Bison, Elk, and caribou. Because wolves usually hunt for large animals, (although wolves are opportunistic and will eat smaller prey) they work together to catch their prey. Wolves will eat a healthy, strong animal if they can catch it. (Wolves need an average of three to ten pounds of meat each day).

 Wolves will also eat grass to purge their digestive system when they have eaten something that does not agree with them. Food sources may differ and change depending on the season and geographical area, when large prey animals are scarce wolves will prey on mice, Rabbits and squirrels, these smaller prey do not provide a substantial part of the wolf's diet but supplement it when larger prey are scarce

Beavers play an important roll as an alternative food source in the summer months, in some areas 60% of the wolf's diet is beaver.

One of the most odd part of the diet of wolves is fish!

Wolves will also eat wild berries and other fruit as a minor part of their diet

Bears, Cayotes, Foxes, big birds... all can be seen as enimies of the wolf. However, though nearly ANY carnivore is a wolves enime, hardly any animal would attack a full grown wolf other then humans and dogs. Not even bears would attack one less a desperate wolf attacks a feed bear first.

Contrary to popular believe, Wolves and bear RARLY fight, let alone if one has a carcuss or not. Usually, the wolf would wait, and only aproach the carcuss once the bear is finished, and a bear wont usually get the chance to eat the carcuss if the wolf killed it, as a wolf eats in a pack, then 'cashes the food'.

Every animal -except hunters- give the wolf a wide berth. However, any animal that eats meat WILL attack, kill, and eat a wolf pup if they can. That is why every carnivore is a wolves enimy, epecially when there are pups nearby

There are many species of wolves around the world, here we won't show all of this species only the species we allow here in WildSouls.

Why we don't allow all species? Well as it says on our homepage this is a realistic wolf rp, and it would be weird to see a red wolf running in YellowStone, but to give everyone a nice rp we are allowing the species of wolf that might fit with YellowStone.

The species we show here might have more than one pelt color, like the Gray Wolf, Meckenzie Valley Wolf and also Tundra Wolf, that can have a silver, black or other colors.

And now for the future joiners of the pack, go ahead and choose the species you like the most to be your character's species.

[You can make a hybrid character. Example: Timber and Mexican wolf mix.] 

Gray Wolf / Timber Wolf