Mexican Gray Wolf

Anthony L.Science ReportMr. CastrellonMay 2014

Introduction

This presentation will be about the Mexican Gray Wolf. You will learn

about their diet, habitat, map range, interesting facts, family life,

anatomy, and lastly its scientific name is Canis lupus bailey

Family Life Wolves live in a family group called packs. A pack

includes a male and a female wolf, their young, and a few wolves that have joined from other packs. Wolves need each other. Together they find food, protect one another and care for their young. A wolf alone can’t survive for long. Pack members take care of each other. They help one another hunt, travel and feed. Together they fight off enemies. Wolves are good parents. In the spring, the mother goes into an underground den to give birth to her cubs.

Habitat

They live in hot places like deserts. Mexican gray wolves prefer mountains, forests, grass lands and scrub lands.

Range

The Mexican gray wolf ranged the Sonora and Chihuahuan deserts in central Mexico to western Texas, southern New Mexico and central Arizona.

Map of Range

Anatomy

Diet

Wolves eat small animals such as rabbits. They also eat big animals such as deer and elk. They also eat about 20 pounds of meat that’s about 200 hotdogs. In fact, wolves only catch about one out of every deer.

scientific name

The scientific name is Canis lupus bailey

Life cycle

pup

juvenile

Average body size and weight

The Mexican wolf maximum height is about 80 centimeters it is around the size of a German Sheppard. The wolf’s height is 26-32 inches at the shoulder. Length 4-5 through nose to tip of tail. Shoulder height 26 inches to 38 Inches.