Wolf tracks
Photo: Tiit Hunt
Translation: Liis
Wolf tracks at crossroad, Anguse forests.
| Wolf | Hunt | Canis lupus |
A day of snowfall, and nice mild winter weather promised for the weekend: a pleasant cause to go for a ramble in the wintry forest. A new fresh track book is again open.
In February the wolf packs separate and adult monogamous wolf couples start their new progeny. Tiit has managed to record tracks of a couple moving together. The tracks are very difficult to distinguish from the tracks of a dog of similar size, the wolf tracks may only be a little more elongated. Quite indefinite. Snow is scraped on to the patches of urine with the hind legs; such narrow scrape marks add some confirmation, but it is all a matter of deduction and conjecture.
At the end of March the wolf couple goes to the summer den or lair which may be at a wind felled tree, and always near water. A suitable raccoon dog or old fox den may be enlarged to use as a den..
And then it is spring when the pups, blind and deaf, are born in April. The gestation period lasts 62 to 65 days. Pleasant to be thinking of spring.
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