I was just reading an article about a displaced wolf. (click here) I was trying to figure out why she never settled down into a pack. I can't help believe she made the study's approved list because she was healthy. She was probably healthy because she was an alpha in an established pack. So, once an alpha always an alpha. Wolf W003F made unintentional history for the research team.
She doesn't appear to be in any one place long enough to have a pack herself. She may have given birth a couple of times when she settled into a forested area in Canada. It only takes 2 to 2 and a half months to birth pups and another few months to get them eating food rather than milk.]
- 10 - 13 days: the eyes open
- 3 weeks: the milk teeth appear, they start to explore the den
- 4 - 5 weeks: short trips outside the den, begin to eat meat
- 6 weeks: moving up to a mile from the den (with adult wolf)
- 6 - 8 weeks: pups are weaned, traveling to rendezvous site.
- 12 weeks: begin to travel with the pack on hunts (with adult wolves)
- 15 - 28 weeks: milk teeth are replaced
- 7 - 8 months: begin to hunt with the pack
She was in the Canadian forest to welp one litter. But, then she left again for her original home. Females can have their own generational packs whereby the females of several generations become their own pack. She doesn't seem to have done that though. She is a rare find and one that is willing AND ABLE to live on her own.