The Timber Wolves fur is the colour jet black. An average adult male weighs about 75lbs. - 120lbs. The measurement of the feet is about 5-6 and one half  feet and its tail is 2 and one half feet. The Timber wolf has 42 teeth. The front of its mouth is used to kill prey. The Timber wolf has a large stomach, it can eat as much as 20 pounds of food at one time. They can go without food for two weeks or longer. The Timber wolf looks a lot like a large German shepherd dog.

 Timber wolves live in family groups called packs. Packs have about 8 members, some have more than 20. Some wolves leave the pack and become lone wolves. A lone wolf travels alone until he finds a mate , these two may have pups. High - ranking members ,called dominant wolves, dominate low - ranking members, known as subordinate wolves. A pack lives in a territory. If prey is scarce, the territory may cover as much as 800 square miles. Wolves claim a territory by marking it with their scent. The leader of the pack urinates on rocks, trees, and other objects along the boundries of the area.

 Wolves mate during the winter. The female carries her young inside her body for about 63 days. The female wolf gives birth to 1-11 pups in a den. The den may be in a cave, a hollow log or underground. Wolves weigh 1 pound at birth and blind, deaf and helpless. They live on only the mother's milk. They are about 3 weeks old, they begin to eat meat and leave the den for short periods. Adult wolves provide the pups with meat. Pups leave the den when they are about 2 months old. Pups move to an unsheltered area called a vendezvous site, they remain there during the summer while adults hunt and bring back food.

 Wolves eat almost any animal they can catch.  Many of the animals they hunt, such as caribou, the elk, are faster and stronger than Timber Wolves. Timber wolves hunt at any time of the day or night. When members of the pack gather to a hunt, they greet each other with howls. Their howling becomes very loud, it warns wolves to stay out of the pack's territory.

 Wolves roam their till' they find prey. They choose a particular animal and move in on it by traveling toward it in the direction oppsite from which the wind is blowing.

 Wolves hunt many more animals than they can catch. They try to wound the animal and make it bleed until it weakens. They grab a victim by the throator snout. Timber Wolves usually kill large animals in only a few minutes. There hunt may take a few hours. Wolves may give up the chase if the animal ia as strong as a healthy moose. The Timber wolf may also abandon the hunt if the animal is expecting the kill. Sick or aged animals that lag behind their herds make easy targets for wolves. Timber wolves help strengthen the herds of its prey by killing such animals. Old or unhealthy animals can be a burden to its herd. For example; an aged caribou eats food that other caribou need to raise their young. By eliminating such animals, Timber wolves perform an important natural function.

 Many people despise Timber wolves because they kill other animals. Timber wolves provoke farmers by destroying other animals like sheep, cows and lots more. Hunters dislike Timber wolves because they kill game animals. Hunters mistaken timber wolves for wiping out game in certain areas. Folklore has contributed a lot to the Timber wolves ba reputation.

 Hatred of wolves led people to destroy large numbers of them. In the U.S., organized hunts that have killed thousands of Timber wolves. The U.S. government has classified the gray wolf as an endangered species in every state except Alaska and Minnesota. Red wolves have been reintroduced into the wild in North Carolina and Tennessee.