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What is a pack?
A pack is a collection of wolves. The pack is very similar to a family. Some packs are large and have many wolves in them and some others are small and may have only two wolves in them.
A typical pack of wild wolves would include:
Mother and Father wolf (The alpha pair)
Aunts and Uncles
Their puppies
Normal Lifestyle: A pack living animal with a complex social organization. The dominant pair breeds, with the sub-dominant females under behaviorally induced reproductive suppression. Packs include up to 30 individuals, but smaller sizes (8 to 12) are more common. The pack remains Interdependent treating the pack as a whole.
Pups~ Once pups are born by the alphas, sometimes the betas. The lesser ranked wolves will be stuck with the pups in the main den, while the rest of the pack will travel for days sometimes out on hunts. Upon returning to the den, the pupsitter, will stick his snout at the corner of the more dominant wolves maw, as this triggers the regeritation of raw meet that was stored. This is how the pups, and the pupsitter receieve their share of the pack benefits. The more food the larger the pack tends to be. Wolves practice birth control and do not let the size of the pack grow to large.
Territory~ Territory is a vast thing to the wolf sometimes covering 50 square miles of land for one pack. The den is the heart of the pack, where they will be most frequent. The more dominant male will make regular rounds around the edges of the territory and leave his mark either by clawing tree's, urinating, or rubbing against small bushes. This keeps other wolves away and lets them know that this area is occupied and to stay off. Every once in a while though, there will be an intruder, and the pack will gather as a whole, and drive the intruder from their lands, or even wound or kill it.
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