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Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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2014

Lepus arcticus

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A Gray Wolf (Canis Lupus) Delivers Live Prey To A Pup, L. David Mech Jan 2014

A Gray Wolf (Canis Lupus) Delivers Live Prey To A Pup, L. David Mech

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

A two-year-old sibling Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) carefully captured an Arctic Hare (Lepus arcticus) leveret alive on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, and delivered it alive to a pup 28–33 days old. This appears to be the first observation of a Gray Wolf delivering live prey to a pup.

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