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==Description==
==Description==
The wolf stands about 8 feet at the shoulder, and is about 20 feet in length from nose to tail; its weight is between 700 and 1200 pounds. Females are smaller and meaner than males, and wolves in higher latitudes are generally larger than those further south. The coat is bushy, generally grey in color, although some wolves have brown or red tinges; all-black or all-white wolves also appear in many packs. Some wolves are also known to have porcupine quills or snake tails, although these are often known as Chimeras in the Eastern regions.
The wolf stands about 3 feet at the shoulder, and is about 5 feet in length from nose to tail; its weight is between 70 and 120 pounds. Females are smaller than males, and wolves in higher latitudes are generaly larger than those further south. The coat is bushy, generally grey in color, although some wolves have brown or red tinges; all-black or all-white wolves also appear in many packs.
==Habitat==
==Habitat==
Wolves are everywhere. Run. Run as fast as you can.
Wolves live in a wide range of habitats, from arctic tundra to forest to prarie to desert. Historically, the wolf ranged over much of the northern hemisphere, from central Mexico to the high arctic in North America, much of Europe, and much of Asia north of the Himalayas - one of the most widely-ranged land mammals on earth.
==Habits==
==Habits==
====Perceptions of Wolves====
====Perceptions of Wolves====
To date there has been no known documented case of a healthy adult wolf killing a human being; normally, a pack of wolves are wary of man and tend to stay away. Despite this, wolves have been cast as the villain throughout history, with the European legends of the [[werewolf]], the fairy tales of "The Three Pigs" and "Little Red Riding Hood" being a few examples. Other tales portray the wolf in a more favorable manner: the boy Mowgli being raised by a wolf in Rudyard Kipling's ''The Jungle Book'', and earlier, the twins Romulus and Remus saved and suckled by a she-wolf for many years before one of them founded the city of [[Rome]].
====Wolves in the Bible====
====Wolves in the Bible====
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''The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.'' [[Isaiah (Biblical book)|Isaiah]] 65:25 (KJV)
''The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.'' [[Isaiah (Biblical book)|Isaiah]] 65:25 (KJV)
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==Evolutionary claims==
==Evolutionary claims==
The wolf is the ancestor of the domestic [[dog]]; DNA tests on several dog breeds (Alaskan malamute, Siberian husky, samoyed, and others) considered the oldest known revealed that they contained strands of wolf DNA [http://www.malmagic.com/History%20of%20the%20malamute.html]. Since even in the evolutionary view this is considered to have occurred in a relatively short time frame (as "little" as 15,000 years ago) this is one area where the views of [[YEC|Young earth creationists]] and evolutionists generally overlap.
==External links==
==External links==