This predator chose the most severe region of the Arctic as its habitat, its habitat is quite large: this is the entire Arctic territory with the exception of eternal glaciers and floating ice floes.

And despite the fact that here five months are completely immersed in darkness, the polar wolf managed to survive and adapt, to a greater extent due to its unpretentiousness in food. After all, if this beast was more selective, death and extinction of the whole species would be inevitable.

Interesting Facts:

• Only every tenth hunt in flocks of this predator is successful in view of which wolves for many days learned to do without food;
• In the case of a successful hunt, a long-starving animal is capable of eating just over 10 kg of meat at a time;
• Due to a shortage of food, having caught its prey, the polar wolf does not choose the most delicious parts, as his brethren do on the mainland, but eats its prey completely with its skin and bones;
• In a family of wolves, younger ones unquestioningly obey their elders and sometimes even remain instead of nannies and guards for young offspring;
• Wolves inform about the presence and territorial boundaries of their neighbors with tags and howls. Carefully trying to avoid conflict between packs;

Features of the existence of polar wolves

As the wound was told, this species of wolves chose the most barren and less inhabited territories with a harsh climate as its habitat.

Even in mid-April, air temperature here rarely rises above - 25 degrees Celsius.The soil is frozen for many kilometers and only a few mammals can survive here, on which the polar wolf hunts.

In winter, when the temperature drops, small prey hides on the ground, and large ones (musk oxen and deer) go to the more southern territories in search of food, and wolves also follow them. To hunt for this large prey, wolves unite in flocks choosing to sacrifice weak and young animals or simply exhausting their chases and siege of the herd.

Wolves are kept in small packs, most of which are family, that is, consist of a male leader, his "wife" and their cubs from different marriages. In turn, all members of the flock are subordinate to this dominant pair, and any encroachment on the honor of the dominant female is suppressed by both the female and the male, who can also expel the insolent from the flock.

This is exactly how lone wolves appear wandering in search of territory and a free young female. The polar wolf is the only species of wolves occupying the territories of its ancestors, the number of which has practically not been affected as a result of human hunting.