CANIDAE
ARCTIC WOLF Canis lupus arctos
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Honest, intelligent, straightforward, loyal, fair, attractive, amicable, unpretentious, sociable, open-minded, idealistic, moralistic, practical, affectionate, sensitive, easy going. Can be cynical, lazy, cold, judgmental, pessimistic, worrier, stubborn, quarrelsome.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Pylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species: C. lupus
Subspecies: C. l. arctos
Binomial name: Canis lupus arctos
Common name: The Arctic Wolf, also called Polar Wolf or White Wolf, is a subspecies of the Gray Wolf, a mammal of the family Canidae.
Description: The Arctic Wolf can withstand the arctic weather. They can survive in sub-zero temperatures for years, in absolute darkness for five months per year, and without food for weeks. Arctic Wolves usually travel in packs of 2 to 20. They live in small family groups: a breeding pair and their pups. The pack works together to feed and care for their pups. Lone Arctic Wolves are young males that have left their pack to seek their own territories. They avoid other wolves, unless they are able to mate. Having found an abandoned territory, a lone Arctic Wolf will claim it by marking the territory with its scent, then gather other lone wolves into its pack. When the female is pregnant, she leaves the pack to dig a den to raise her pups. If the ice is too thick, she will move to a den or cave.
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Distribution: Arctic Wolves inhabit the Canadian Arctic, Alaska and the northern parts of Greenland. North of 70 degree latitude
Habitat: Their habitat is extremely harsh and remote, and few scientists venture into that world during the long, dark winter – even the vast majority of Inuit live further south than the Arctic wolf. As a result, the details of their lives through much of the year are virtually unknown.
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