CELESTIAL CHALLENGE. (TUESDAY: ANIMAL KINGDOM)
ANIMALS:
Today my topic is on 'Wolves';
Animals are the part of our life, they are also a living being among us whether we deny or not.They really have values in human life some time they put their lives for us.Animals are the most impressive creatures in this world, although we can't count that how many types of animals are there though according to scientists there are approximately 8.7 million species in the earth.And many of the species are not found yet.
WOlves:
Wolf numbers are now vastly reduced in these areas for a number of reasons:
- Reduction of wild habitat (which influences prey density and availability)
- Government policies in the last century to extirpate wolves (hunt them to extinction)
- Current wolf conservation policies that vary from state to state
- Wolves seen as competition to humans (wolf predation on ranches and farms)
- Lack of accurate scientific knowledge about wolves, creating fear and misunderstanding
Currently, wild wolf populations representing two distinct species of wolf are found in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
REQUIREMENT FOR THEIR SURVIVAL:
Wolves in the wild have three main requirements for survival:
- An adequate population and density of their prey food source
- A habitat large enough to support both their pack and their food source
- Tolerance from humans
The first two requirements are fairly straightforward. The last requirement is much more complex. The word “tolerance” does not mean that every person must like wolves. It means that people accept the existence of wolves living on the landscape with them and allow them to live.
PREY-FOOD
The wolf is a large carnivore (only eats meat) and requires a diet high in protein. Wolves are also referred to as top-level predators because there is no other wild animal that hunts wolves to eat them. As a large carnivore, the wolf requires large prey, usually an ungulate (or hoofed animal), such as deer, moose, elk or caribou. Although the type of ungulate may change in different areas of the world, these large prey animals make up most of the diet of any wolf. Wolves will supplement their diet with smaller mammals such as beaver, rabbits or lemmings when they can. Wolves occasionally eat garbage and livestock as well. Where the worlds of human and wolf overlap, there is controversy that requires a combination of wildlife management and alternative husbandry methods such as guard animals, fencing, range riders, or fladry.
HABITAL WILDLANDS:
Now a days they currently are found in ecosystems as far north as the North Pole and as far south as the 20th parallel (Mexico City, Mexico; Mumbai, India). From tundra to desert, Great Plains to temperate rainforest, wolves and their prey have adapted to a wide variety of climates and habitats.
The largest concentrations of wolves now reside in the northern regions of the world such as Alaska, Canada and Russia.
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MONDAY: Darkness.
TUESDAY: Animal Kingdom.
WEDNESDAY: Structures.
THURSDAY: Forces in Nature.
FRIDAY: Love Beauty Freedom.
SATURDAY: Agriculture.
SUNDAY: Light.
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