Do wolves hunt man? It is not a characteristic trait of wolves to hunt man. In fact, all those stories we have read of packs of wolves silently padding through the snows in pursuit of a fleeing sledge or Russian troika are nothing more than pure fiction. Wolves do hunt in packs, and they often attack animals larger than themselves, or follow herds of caribou, until they are able to "cut" one of them out from the herd, often using great cunning and well thought-out team work to separate the animal from the rest. Each pack, generally made up of several families, ranges over established trails which can cover an area of more than a thousand square kilometres. They move fast and far when hunting, often covering fifty to sixty kilometres in a single night. A wolf's diet varies according to what is available. Elk, reindeer, cattle and deer are its favourite fare, but it will make do quite happily on a diet of hares, birds and even the occasional reptile when times are hard. When it does make a kill it gorges itself, eating up to one fifth of its own weight at a time, always bolting down its food at a fast rate - hence the phrase to "wolf one's food." When a pack does bring down a quarry, they share it without quarrelling. For Details
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