Do wolves really barf?
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Yes, wolves eat all of the prey(bones, skin, etc.), some parts don't digest well but the wolf does get needed nutrients from those parts. Since some parts don't break down small enough to pass through the digestive tract they will "barf". Also if the wolf ate something that makes them sick(food poisoning in people) they will barf.
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Yes, all birds have gizzards. In most birds the food passes rapidly through the glandular stomach (proventriculus) and stays for some time in the muscular stomach (gizzard) while the gastric secretions (pepsin, HCl and mucus) are at work. In most species the gizzard is complex and has two pairs of opposing muscles. However, birds of prey and Ciconiiformes have a simpler muscular stomach. Also, some birds have a third chamber below the muscular stomach (pyloric stomach), for instance many aquatic species. \n\nCheck this 1997 paper about the gastrointestinal physiology and nutrition of wild birds, it has drawings of the digestive tract of different species (free access):\nhttp://docstore.ingenta.com/cgi-bin/ds_deliver/1/u/d/ISIS/29326609.1/cabi/pns/1997/00000056/00000003/art00028/B9A3D9F840D5656211481333362A0ED16C47E714CF.pdf?link=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/error/delivery&format=pdf )\nIf the link doesn't work, download from here: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cabi/pns/1997/00000056/00000003/art00028\n\nOther references:\nSeasonal changes in gizzard size:\nhttp://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/files/issues/v092n03/p0794-p0795.pdf\nLess muscular gizzard in birds that eat pollen and nectar (abstract only):\nhttp://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/90/paper/ZO9900581.htm
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No. They don't carry it they drag it. Most animals, including myself, can drag twice their weight. Lions can drag a full grown buffalo
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loose if they eat out a bad smellin and tasting GrimmyBear. If it's fresh they will win but when it's rancid they will loose!!!\n\nStoopid question gets a stoopid answer!
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i believe that people have been mauled by a panda, however they do not actively hunt, kill, and eat humans.\n\neveryone telling you they're a strict herbivore is also false. pandas have been known to eat smaller rodents, like squirrels, from time to time. in fact, a panda bear is made to be a carnivore: sharp canines, smaller incisors, and they even have the digestive tract of a carnivore! this is why pandas must eat so much to simply stay alive.
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there is a Cherokee legend each person has two wolves living inside of them. one represents good the other represents evil. the one that wins is the one the person feeds the most
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Dogs like thier ancestors wolves use licking for many purposes....a subservient wolf for example always fawns upon more dominant members of the pack by crawling on the ground licking the muzzle of the dominant wolf to show that they recognize thier leadership, however pups also lick the corners of the mouths of older wolves in order to induce regurgitation of food as well. Also members of a wolf pack lick eachother for grooming purposes which also reinforces the family bond of the pack. Dog are wolves and are genetically identical to them but dogs having been domesticated for 15,000 years or so have diverged from wolves in many ways. One of the most noticeable changes is that dogs never really reach maturity like a wolf does they stay more puppy like because, we as thier domesticators have chosen the dogs that are more submissive to be our pets and over the years that selection has caused what is called Neoteny in dogs basically what that is...is they are more puppy like for thier entire lives.....so your dog as a domesticated wolf is like a puppy his whole life compared to wolves in the wild who mature at around 3-4 years of age. So your dog licking your face is a sign of love in the sense that it is being done to reinforce pack bonds or to show submissiveness or possibly even as an attempt to make you regurgitate food for him/her without really knowng why he/she is doing it. In any case it is a sign of affection used to gain trust or food or reinforce the bond between you and him/her.
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Any animal will bite if scared or angry.  They don't do it vindictively, they are just protecting themselves like they would in the wild.
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Google "feral children" -- it's happened a number of times.\n\nHere were two siblings raised by wolves:\nhttp://bowland-files.lancs.ac.uk/chimp/langac/LECTURE4/4kamala.htm
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Not I! :D\n\nLOL My family raises wolves and I would rather have them by my side in the dark than anything else. Have you ever seen pissed wolves bare their teeth in the moonlight? LOL I don't think very many monsters, bad people, or clowns would mess with me then! It would be like having 6, 190lb. bodyguards with a jaw crush strength of 2,700 lbs. (which is quite a bit higher than the human skull can withstand btw) that can run up to 47 m.p.h.'s, and are willing to die for me. :D
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Wolves were virtually eliminated as pests throughout much of the lower 48 States, and is listed as a threatened species on the U.S. Endangered Species List (although the species is not listed on the International Endangered Species List due to healthy populations remaining in Canada, Scandanavia and Russia).\n\nOnly Minnesota had a healthy population of gray wolves (Canis lupus) until re-introduction programs began a few years ago to bring wolves back into areas that they were once abundant in.\n\nToday, gray wolves can be found in Minnesota (2,500+), Michigan (321), Wisconsin (335), Montana (81), Idaho (285) and Yellowstone Park in Wyoming (271).  This is in addition to the 7,500 to 10,000 wolves living in Alaska and the estimated 57,000 that live in Canada.\n\nThe red wolf (Canis rufus) was extinct in the wild until a captive breeding program and conservation initiative re-introduced a handful to North and South Carolina.\n\nA similar captive breeding program and release initiative has also been used to try and return the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) to the wild.  Today there are about 55 Mexican wolves in Arizona and New Mexico.  The U.S. Endangered Species List lists them as endangered, but also lists them as 'nonessential', mostly due to pressure from ranchers.\n\nSo yes, there are wolves in New Mexico, but not very many, and they are the exceedingly rare subspecies of wolf, the Mexican wolf.
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*Hunting a bit* The center of a wolf's universe is its pack, and howling is the glue that keeps the pack together. Some have speculated that howling strengthens the social bonds between packmates; the pack that howls together, stays together. Whether howling together actually strengthens social bonds, or just reaffirms them, is unknown.\nWe do know, however, that howling keeps packmates together, physically. Because wolves range over vast areas to find food, they are often separated from one another. Of all their calls, howling is the only one that works over great distances. Its low pitch and long duration are well suited for transmission in forest and across tundra, and unique features of each individual's howl allow wolves to identify each other. Howling is a long distance contact and reunion call.\nTypes of Howls\nPups howl for just about any reason as they learn the social skills of a pack. Indiscriminate howling is usually not a dangerous proposition for young pups, since they tend to be stuck at a rendezvous site that is relatively far from the neighbors, who likely have pups of their own to raise. More importantly, replying to an adult that howls often leads to a meal, since packmates returning with food frequently howl as they near the home site. \n\nLonesome howls are locators so the hunters can find the main pack. When a wolf howls, not only can its packmates hear it, but so can any other wolf within range. These other wolves may be members of hostile adjacent packs that are competitors for territory and prey. Howl too close to these strangers, and they may seek you out, chase you, and kill you. So howling has its costs (running into the opposition) as well as its benefits (getting back with the pack). Consequently, wolves are careful about where and when they howl, and to whom they howl.\n\nConfrontational howls are when a stanger gets in the territory of another pack. This behavior points to the second main purpose of howling: helping to maintain spacing between rival packs. When one pack howls, others nearby may reply. Very quickly, all the wolves know each other's location. By advertising their presence, packs can keep their neighbors at bay and avoid accidentally running into them.\n\nBut the use of howling in spacing is fraught with difficulties. If one pack howls, all its neighbors (within range, of course) now know its location. What if they choose to keep quiet, sneak up, and attack the howlers? Deliberate attacks by one pack on another have been seen, so there are costs to advertising your location. These risks have to be balanced with benefits. An example of this trade-off is sometimes seen during winter, when packs are traveling nomadically within (or even outside) their territories. A pack sitting on a fresh prey kill is very likely to stake its claim and howl, particularly if a stranger howls nearby. As time passes and the kill is consumed, the wolves become less invested in the site and are less likely to reply. Eventually, they may respond to a stranger's howling by silently moving away.\n\nChorus howls are howling with the pack together. \nPack of wolves howling Rather than using howls with a single pure tone, wolves howling in a chorus use wavering or modulated howls. The rapid changes in pitch make it difficult to follow one individual's howls if several others are howling simultaneously.\n\nSo it all boils down to howling is the way that wolves communicate over long distances...\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wolves/howl.html
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Vomiting, aka barfing, is one of our oldest mechanisms of defense... you can say from when Man was like an animal, picking stuff up from off the ground and putting it in his mouth to find out if it could be eaten... dogs and other animals use it, too.\n\nIt's proved so effective, we still use it to the day and it keeps us from getting intoxicated by substances like rotten food, certain drugs, alcohol, etc.  Of course, like any defense mechanism, it can sometimes be an exaggerated response of our body and then it's very annoying, to say the least.\n\nBy the way, when people vomit after chemotherapy, surgery (general anesthesia) or brain disease (meningitis) the problem is an abnormal stimulation to their brainstem that makes their body want to expulse it's stomach contant quickly and forcefully.
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It is a possiblity & caution should always be exercised.\n\nAlso it could be wolves in sheeps clothing.  Wolves represent false prophets & their false doctrines.
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Timber wolves are carnivores feeding on other animals. A study in the early 1980's showed that the diet of Wisconsin wolves was comprised of 55% white-tailed deer, 16% beavers, 10% snowshoe hares and 19% mice, squirrels, muskrats and other small mammals. Wolves' food habits change with seasonal shifts in the availability of prey species. For example, beavers spend a lot of time on shore in the fall and spring, cutting trees for their food supply. Since beavers are easy to catch on land, wolves eat more of them in the fall and spring than during the rest of the year. In the winter, when beavers are in their lodges or moving safely beneath the ice, wolves rely on deer and hares. Wolves' summer diet is more diverse, including a greater variety of small mammals.
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*Wandering in*\n\nThe gray wolf, Canis lupus, lives in the northern latitudes around the world, while the red wolf, Canis rufus, lives only in North America. A possible third species, Abyssinian or Ethiopian wolf, Canis simensis, which some scientists believe is really a jackal, lives on the highlands of Ethiopia. The issue of wolf species and particularly subspecies is a complex technical topic of disagreement among scientists. A subspecies is a group of individuals within a species that share a geographic location and may have some unique physical characteristics. Wolves throughout the world can be grouped into several subspecies, somewhat similarly to the way human populations are grouped into races.\n\nSubspecies are often difficult to distinguish from one another. This is because they interbreed where their ranges overlap so that their populations tend to blend together rather than form distinctive boundaries. The different traits we see in subspecies are likely the result of geographic range, available habitat, and prey base. Skull dimensions, overall size, fur color, and the length of appendages are some of the characteristics that differ between subspecies of gray wolf.\n\nFor the past few decades, most wolf biologists agreed that 24 subspecies of the gray wolf lived in North America, and 12-13 lived in Eurasia. This classification scheme was largely based on geographic location of each wolf population or the type of habitat in which it lived (e.g., eastern timber wolf). New research, especially studies of skull measurements, has shown that many of these subspecies were the same as one another. In addition, researchers found that dispersing wolves traveled over great distances, frequently crossing geographic boundaries that had been arbitrarily drawn by humans. These discoveries made the criteria for distinguishing among subspecies less distinct.\n\nRecent studies by Nowak (1995) have suggested that gray wolves in North America be lumped into 5 subspecies. Additionally, Nowak (1995) and Nowak and Federoff (2002) suggest that those of Eurasia be lumped into 6 existing subspecies, plus the possibility of 2 existing and 2 extinct subspecies that Nowak was unable to study. Other scientists still recognize more subspecies. Another recent study by Nowak (2002) suggests that there were 3 subspecies of red wolves, with 1 still existing in the wild. Although debate continues, today's classification scheme is based largely on the following subspecies and species (red wolf):\n\nNorth America\n\nCanis lupus arctos is commonly known as the arctic wolf. Arctic wolves live primarily in the Arctic, the region located above 67° north latitude. Since the predominant color phase of this subspecies is a creamy white, which camouflages it in snowy surroundings, it is often called the white wolf.\n\nCanis lupus baileyi is the smallest North American gray wolf, originally found in Mexico and the southwestern United States. It is commonly known as the Mexican wolf or lobo. Mexican wolves were exterminated from the wild in the United States by the late 1970's, but have been reintroduced into Arizona and New Mexico.\n\nCanis lupus lycaon is the first subspecies to be recognized in the United States. It is commonly known as the eastern timber wolf. Canis lupus lycaon inhabited the eastern portions of the United States and southeastern parts of Canada. Before the classification scheme was revised in 1995, it was thought that this was the subspecies that inhabited Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin. It is now thought that Canis lupus nubilus is the race that inhabits these areas, and Canis lupus lycaon lives in southeastern Canada. These distinctions may be confusing, since most people in the Lake Superior region generally refer to wolves as "timber wolves."\n\nCanis lupus nubilus once ranged throughout the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. It is commonly known as the Great Plains wolf or the buffalo wolf. It was thou
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check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artic_Wolf