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Nose

The nose of the wolf is moist. This helps increase the particles of scent that is absorbed. Hunger can actually enhance the wolf's sense of smell. In the right atmosphere a wolf can smell prey from up to one and a half miles away. (http://www.wolfsource.org/?page_id=70)

A wolf has two hundred million smelling cells inside its nose and can smell 100 times better then a human being. A wolf has a very rough tongue which is used for cleaning the meat off of the bones. (http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/wildlife/wolves/wolf_anatomy.html)

The pressure of a wolf jaw is twice that of a German Shepherd at 1500 pounds of pressure per square inch. Crushing the large bones of their prey is not a problem. Wolves feed mainly on carrion of Caribou, Elk, Deer, Moose. (http://www.wolfsource.org/?page_id=70)