Gray Wolf Now
- Wolves are carnivores (meat eaters) but they will eat other foods as well. Their diet ranges from big game, such as elk and moose, to earthworms, berries and grasshoppers.
- Wolves are an extremely social animal. They exist as a social unit called a pack.
Wolves travel and hunt in a group and perform almost all other activities in the company of fellow wolves. - Wolves use body language and facial expressions to communicate with each other.
- Gray wolves were once common throughout all of North America, but were exterminated in most areas of the United States by the mid 1930s. Today, their range has been reduced to Canada, Alaska, the Great Lakes, northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest.
gray wolf in 200,000 years - Evolution OF species
1. Separation
200,000 years from now, the Earth's system will be changed. The Greenhouse Effect will make the Earth's average temperature rise up at an alarming rate. The sea level will rise because the great ice sheets on Greenland and West Antarctica will be melted. A large portions of the land will disappear under the sea and the land where animals can live in become smaller and more crowded.
For the places the gray wolf lives now, the global warming will result in more hot days and fewer cool days, and more rainfall. Some parts of the area where the gray wolf lives now will become a swamp area, and other parts will become the sea because the sea level will rise. Gray wolves will struggle with warm weather, hunting in the swamp and experience more severe battles for food.
One pack of the gray wolf will move into the sea searching for food. The sea has more space for them and more food.
For the places the gray wolf lives now, the global warming will result in more hot days and fewer cool days, and more rainfall. Some parts of the area where the gray wolf lives now will become a swamp area, and other parts will become the sea because the sea level will rise. Gray wolves will struggle with warm weather, hunting in the swamp and experience more severe battles for food.
One pack of the gray wolf will move into the sea searching for food. The sea has more space for them and more food.
2. Adaptation
The gray wolves adapt to their new environment- the sea. Their thick coat changes into smooth skin. Their legs turn into flippers. They have four flippers. Their bushy tails become long, smooth tails with tail fins. Their ears become smaller and closable. Their nose, once was keen for smell, is now used for producing sounds. They make sounds to communicate with one another and t locate something (echolocation).
They consume a diet consisting of fish, squid, octopus and various crustaceans. They also consume various marine mammals and seabirds. They hunt in a group.
They sometimes wobble up the coast to sunbathe and to hunt birds.
They consume a diet consisting of fish, squid, octopus and various crustaceans. They also consume various marine mammals and seabirds. They hunt in a group.
They sometimes wobble up the coast to sunbathe and to hunt birds.
3. Division
Now the population who moved into the sea is so different that they won't be able to mate with the other gray wolves if they meet. So we can say that they are a new species. We name this new species "Semi aquatic gray sea wolf."
4. Illustration of the New species
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