Get In Touch. As our region slowly begins to reopen, we have begun to offer tours by reservation only. We are still unable to offer walk-ins at this time. We will continue to provide updates via our website and social media.
As a c3 nonprofit, our tours program has served to be the major funding source that enabled us to continue in our important mission. We have experienced a severe decrease in tour income since the onset of the pandemic.
With limited income from our tours, we ask that you consider making a donation to help the wolves through this difficult time. A Treasure Awaits The Wolves of Speedwell In the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, quietly secured on 80 plus acres of natural woodland, you will find the home of the Wolves of Speedwell. Meet the Wolves. Come VIsit Us. Watonie is Reunited with her Pack!
Wish List. Frequently Asked Questions. The only way to see Wolf Sanctuary of PA is by a guided tour. View Tour Information. Shop Online. What Are The Tour Guidelines? However, the delayed dispersal of some offspring might result in extended family relationships beyond a year. A social group occupying a territory might include a pair of adults generally more than a year old , transients ages 6 to 18 months , pre-dispersing subadults usually less than a year old and nonbreeding associates that are more than a year old.
Observations indicate other coyotes living in a territory might help provide food to a growing litter. Normally, females do not breed until their second winter, but there are cases of some yearling females breeding and producing litters.
They have one heat period that lasts four to five days, usually in February. The litters are born from mid-April to early May, and litter sizes average five to seven pups. Coyotes compensate for unusually high mortality by having larger litters.
Known denning sites range from beneath overturned trees, piles of tree stumps, rock dens, and dug-out red-fox dens. Dens usually are located on southerly exposures. The pups are moved frequently to new dens to avoid detection. Young coyotes begin to disperse from the family group during October, when they're 6 months old. Studies in Pennsylvania indicate some juvenile coyotes dispersed up to miles, but 30 to 50 miles is more common.
Coyotes use a variety of yips, barks and howls to communicate and periodically assemble into larger packs. Coyotes at times will "pack" and at other times will hunt alone or in the company of another coyote or two. They primarily are nocturnal, but often hunt during daylight hours, especially in the morning. Howling might occur at any time of day, but the highest activity usually is at night.
A coyote's senses of smell, hearing and alertness are especially keen. The coyote has adapted to a wide variety of habitats in Pennsylvania. The animals can be found in the heavily forested northeast and northcentral regions of the state, in dairy and cropland areas, and even around the heavily populated areas of Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Erie. Coyotes prefer heavy, brushy cover found in places such as clearcuts, and they often live along edges between forest and agricultural areas where prey is abundant.
The coyote is a generalist. An analysis of coyote scats collected in Pennsylvania indicates a wide array of food items in the coyote's diet.
Mammals from at least 13 genera were found, ranging from small mice and voles to deer. Overall, deer was the dominant food, occurring in 57 percent of the scats. It's not surprising deer are an abundant food source, given the high deer density in many areas and the large number of deer killed on the highways, lost to starvation or dying for any number of other reasons.
Rabbits and woodchucks ranked behind small mammals and deer as important food items. Birds were found in 10 percent of the scats, and insects in 18 percent.
Plant material occurred in 50 percent of the scats. Various kinds of fruits are important foods during the late summer and fall, but plant material appears important on a year-round basis. Think of Journey. To come back around here, wolves would need human help. Gray wolves once thrived in the Northeast. But, seen as natural foes of people, they were cleared by trappers and hunters. The last gray in Pennsylvania died in To see wolves outdoors in Pennsylvania, you have to visit the Wolf Sanctuary of Pennsylvania in Lititz.
But Mother Nature was here before we were. We have a harvest of more than 30, coyotes a year.
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