ESTONIA blank maxicard with stamp 2004 - The grey wolf.


The grey wolf is the biggest animal in the dog family. It measures up to 100 cm high at shoulder and weighs an average of 50 kg. There are 4-6 pups in the litter. The wolf once lived throughout the Eurasian and North American continents from the tundra to the deserts, but has now been practically wiped up from large parts of Europe and the United States. As a result of adaptation the wolf has numerous subspecies and taxons differing both in terms of size and colour. The wolf mainly feeds on various local wild ungulates, but if available also on livestock and garbage. In Estonia the wolf lives throughout the country, but there have been big differences in numbers. The number was partricularly high in the first half of the 19th century. The wolf is a popular character in animal legends and fairy tales and has been given many different, often euphemistic names in Estonian.



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