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=**Female** __**Gray Wolf**__ **with her cubs.**=

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Common Name: Gray Wolf Scientific Name: //Canis lupus//

Natural Habitat: The Gray Wolf lives in the Northern Hemisphere.

Niche: Gray Wolfs are carnivores and eat anything from field mice to huge caribou. Gray Wolfs get to the size about 2-2.5 feet tall and 4-5 feet long and weigh about 85 pounds. Gray Wolfs reproduce at the age of 2-3 and produce 5-6 offsprings. They produce only with the same mate they have chosen, and only between January and April. Gray Wolfs usually live in a pack of 2-20 wolfs. The climate requirement for Gray Wolfs is cold weather. They housing requirements are dens.

Endangered: Why the Gray Wolf is endangered, is because humans are destroying the habitat in which they live in. Climate change it is also a big impact on them. How we classify an specie to be endangered or threatened, is by seeing the population decrease significantly and harder to spot in the wild.

Population: The current population for the Gray Wolf is currently around 200,000.

Conservation Efforts: Some efforts that are being underway are organizations that are placed to donate money, so you can help care for them in shelters. Some people are also breeding them to help increase the population. Some law's have been passed to protect the Gray Wolf's and to protect them from being hunted. The efforts are currently working and the population has been increasing.

Work Cited: ( http://www.advocateswest.org/) (http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/Wildlife/Nongame/endangered_list.htm) (http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/wolf,_gray.php#)