A predator, usually large in size, that is rarely killed by other predators and may kill smaller predators. Wolves are top predators and have few natural enemies. They may kill smaller predators such [..]

The term used to refer to the male and the female in the pack who mate and produce offspring.

a change in an animal’s behavior or body that allows it to live better in its surroundings. Some adaptations in wolves include large feet with toes that spread which enable the animals to walk on snow [..]

The term sometimes used to describe the dominant wolves in the social order of the wolf pack. Because a free-ranging wolf pack is a family comprising the parents and their offspring, the term “alphas” [..]

The act of giving human characteristics, behaviors, feelings and/or motivations to animals or objects. Animals are frequently anthropomorphized in literature and in movies.

What an animal does; its reactions or actions under specific conditions.

The term sometimes used to describe the second rank in the social order of a wolf pack. In what researchers now consider an oversimplified model of a wolf pack, social hierarchies were thought to oper [..]

Term used to designate larger species that are hunted. Examples are bears, moose, deer, elk, caribou and bighorn sheep. In many states, selected species are legally designated as big game, small game  [..]

The variety, complexity and relative abundance of species (plant and animal) present and interacting in an ecosystem.

A person who studies living organisms, life processes and/or the animal and plant life of a particular place. Biologists also study the relationship of living things to one another.