A few days ago
SHANI D

can someone give me a legend of why wolves howl at the moon please?

can someone give me a legend of why wolves howl at the moon please?

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A few days ago
arman

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The center of a wolf’s universe is its pack, and howling is the glue that keeps the pack together. Some have speculated that howling strengthens the social bonds between packmates; the pack that howls together, stays together. That may be so, but chorus howls can also end with nasty quarrels between packmates. Some members, usually the lowest-ranking, may actually be “punished” for joining in the chorus. Whether howling together actually strengthens social bonds, or just reaffirms them, is unknown.

We do know, however, that howling keeps packmates together, physically. Because wolves range over vast areas to find food, they are often separated from one another. Of all their calls, howling is the only one that works over great distances. Its low pitch and long duration are well suited for transmission in forest and across tundra, and unique features of each individual’s howl allow wolves to identify each other. Howling is a long distance contact and reunion call; separate a wolf from its pack, and very soon it will begin howling, and howling, and howling…

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A few days ago
Anonymous
Wolves howl for a variety of reasons. Pack members will chorus howl to defend their territory and rally the pack together. Most howls heard in the pack are chorus howls. These group “sing-a-longs” may be started by any pack member, or they may be a response to the howling of a neighboring pack of wolves or a coyote. Wolves will even howl to something that even sounds similar like a train whistle, fire or police car siren or even a human. Such howls, though social in nature, also serve to defend the pack’s territory against other wolves.

Wolves can recognize the voices of others. The response of a packmate, of a known neighboring pack or a complete stranger are all solicit different responses.

Contrary to popular belief, wolves do not howl at the full moon any more often than at any other time of month. They also do not howl just at night. They do howl more frequently during the hours around sunrise and sunset, for they are more active then. Wolves also howl more often in the winter months than in the summer. However they can be heard howling any time of day any time of the year.

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A few days ago
JF_14
They don’t howl at the moon, reason for howling is to let the other wolves in pack know where they are!!!!
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