How it works
Do wolves howl at the Moon, and who founds a new pack? These wolf trivia questions follow the gray wolf through six rounds, from the family that makes up a pack to the fables told about it.
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Six rounds on the gray wolf
Name and kin explains Canis lupus and what Wolfgang means. Body and fur covers long legs in deep snow and fur that sheds no ice. Pack, territory and voice sorts howling from scent marking. Dens and pups follows a litter out of the den. Food, hunting and rivals meets the bear, the cougar and the tiger. Range, fable and sky runs from Aesop to Sirius.
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Each set brings ten questions. The card answers every tap straight away, shows why in a sentence and names the article. Scored round lines up twenty and scores them at the close.
Questions and answers
Do wolves howl at the Moon?
No. The phases of the Moon have no effect on wolf howling. Wolves howl to gather the pack before and after hunts, to pass on an alarm, to find each other in a storm and to call across great distances.
How many wolves are in a pack?
About eight on average in North America and 5.5 in Europe. A pack is a mated pair and their offspring, sometimes two or three such families together.
Do wolves mate for life?
Usually. Wolves are monogamous, and a mated pair usually stays together for life. If one of the pair dies, the other finds a new mate quickly.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article Wolf, which every question links. Counts of wolves by country, attacks on people and the methods used to hunt wolves are left out.