Hunting Habits

This passage explores wolves’ diet and hunting strategies. It explains that wolves are carnivores that hunt in packs to catch large prey like deer, elk, moose, and caribou. They also scavenge when food is scarce and use teamwork and communication to increase their success. The passage concludes by emphasizing wolves’ role in maintaining ecological balance through population control.

Students develop classification and content-specific vocabulary such as carnivore, ungulate, and predator. The passage supports inferential comprehension, helping students link diet to ecosystem roles. It strengthens reading for details and builds science literacy by showing how food chains and species interactions work in nature.