Wolf Pack Greeting

A wolf returning home and welcome greeting by other pack members. Active submission often looks like a subordinate wolf begging the dominant for... more

by Wildlife Fine Art

Title

Wolf Pack Greeting

Artist

Wildlife Fine Art

Medium

Photograph - Prints / Licensing

Description

A wolf returning home and welcome greeting by other pack members. Active submission often looks like a subordinate wolf begging the dominant for forgiveness. The submissive assumes a crouching posture with curled down rump and tail tucked and/or wagging. Then the submissive nuzzles and licks at the dominant's chin, lips, nose, and muzzle as is often seen in ritual greeting. The dominant will usually gaze ahead, raising the muzzle while accepting this display of respect and/or affection, with a bristled, but cool, appearance. Like a family, the Wolf pack is a social unit. The pack consists of the breeding pair, or parents, called the alphas and their daughters, sons, sisters, and brothers. A black wolf is a melanistic color variant of the grey wolf. On January 15, 2009, a black male wolf from "Mollie's Pack" in the Yellowstone National Park's Pelican Valley was weighed in at 143 lbs, making it the largest Yellowstone wolf on record. Wolves are extremely opportunistic carnivores, and they will not miss a chance at a meal. While living in some of the most unforgiving terrain on the planet. Wolves have a vast communication repertoire including scent marks, vocalizations, visual displays, facial and body postures and rituals. Although most wolves have basically grey coats, hence the common name, the coats usually have a lot of base yellow interspersed between the salt-and-pepper fey and black hair. Wolves anywhere can have coats that grade from almost pure white to jet black, although all of the arctic wolves are usually all white.

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August 28th, 2016