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Wolves travel in packs. Only the top female in the wolf pack breeds. Any female dog will breed. A female wolf only breeds once a year. A female dog will breed twice a year. Normally a gray wolf is larger than a dog. The entire pack raises wolf puppies. A female dog will not let any other animals near her puppies.
Gray wolves and domestic dogs appear to be very different from one another, and indeed in instinct, appearance and life cycle (specifically frequency of fertility in both males and females; wolves are only fertile once per year for a few weeks whilst domestic dog bitches are fertile several times per year and male dogs tend to be fertile year-round).

However, genetically they remain quite similar; all domestic dogs are descended from gray wolves and taxonomically are the same species (canis lupus; they are distinguished, taxonomically, by subspecies only -- canis lupus familiaris for domestic dogs, with gray wolf covering a variety of gray wolf subspecies such as canis lupus lycaon for the North American Eastern Timberwolf). Gray Wolves, domestic dogs, red wolves (canis rufus, considered a distinct species from the gray wolf/domestic dog) and coyotes (canis latrans) are readily interbreedable and are thus more genetically compatible than, say, donkeys and horses (which can interbreed and produce offspring called mules, but their offspring are almost always infertile due to donkeys and horses having different numbers of chromosome pairs giving the offspring an odd number of chromosomes when an even number of chromosomes are requisite for producing more offspring).

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Nothing, just different regional spellings of the word 'grey'.

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The young are like children. The adults teach them how to hunt and adapt.

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its color gets changed into gray instead of white.They start hunting when they grow into a adult.

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Red wolves are somewhat smaller than gray wolves, and have a tawny to reddish hue to their flanks. Red wolves form smaller packs, usually no more than five or six.

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