About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 148. Chapters: Arctic cetaceans, Arctic land animals, Arctic pinnipeds, Brown Bear, Gray wolf, Walrus, Polar bear, Killer whale, Wolverine, Arctic Fox, Reindeer, Narwhal, Stoat, Red Fox, Sei whale, Vipera berus, Least Weasel, Snowshoe Hare, Eurasian Lynx, Beluga whale, Gyrfalcon, Canada Lynx, Bowhead whale, Muskox, Northern fur seal, Harbor seal, Northern Elephant Seal, Harp Seal, Muskrat, Snow Goose, Snowy Owl, Common Frog, Lemming, Wood Frog, Rock Ptarmigan, Sled dog, Roe Deer, Northern Red-backed Vole, Moor Frog, Flora and fauna of Greenland, Ribbon seal, Arctic ground squirrel, Arctic Wolf, Viviparous lizard, Bearded seal, Puijila, Mountain Hare, Barren-ground Caribou, List of land mammals of Nunavut, Peary Caribou, Arctic Hare, White-beaked dolphin, Alaskan Tundra Wolf, Tundra Vole, Hoary marmot, Baffin Island Wolf, Cumberland Sound Beluga, Alaska marmot, North American Brown Lemming, Alaskan Hare, List of Arctic cetaceans, List of Arctic pinnipeds. Excerpt: The gray wolf or grey wolf (Canis lupus), often known simply as the wolf, is the largest extant wild member of the Canidae family. Though once abundant over much of Eurasia, North Africa and North America, the gray wolf inhabits a reduced portion of its former range due to widespread destruction of its territory, human encroachment, and the resulting human-wolf encounters that sparked broad extirpation. Even so, the gray wolf is regarded as being of least concern for extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, when the entire gray wolf population is considered as a whole. Today, wolves are protected in some areas, hunted for sport in others, or may be subject to population control or extermination as threats to livestock, people, and pets. Gray wolves are social predators that live in nuclear families consisting of a mated pair, their offspring and, ..
