Where the World’s Largest Wolves Still Hunt

From Yahoo

A 110 pound wolf stalks through the Rocky Mountains.From Alaska tundra to Himalayan cliffs, giant wolves trot across snow, climb ridges, and survive in places that freeze, thin, or starve weaker predators.The northern Rocky Mountain wolf pads through Idaho and Montana at nearly 110 pounds, stands up to 2.8 feet tall on all fours, and still struggles to recover.The northwestern wolf charges across Alaska and western Canada at up to 40 miles per hour, weighs about 105.5 pounds, and can stretch more than six feet long.The interior Alaskan wolf prowls remote Alaska at roughly 105 pounds, and one huge male reportedly tipped the scale at 212 pounds in the late 1930s.The Eurasian wolf moves through Siberian forests and eastern European plains at about 90 pounds, crossing frozen ground and dense timber with one of the widest ranges.The Himalayan wolf climbs above 12,000 feet in the Himalayas, hunts where oxygen runs thin, and still averages an impressive 93.5 pounds in brutal mountain air.The Arctic wolf treks across polar snowfields at around 90 pounds, and some packs travel more than 1,500 miles while chasing food across the far north.From Montana valleys to Arctic ice, the biggest wolves grow where distance, cold, and hunger force every pack to become tougher and larger.Follow those tracks into the snow, and the next shape on the ridge might be a giant wolf.