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What animals eat wolves?

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animals Grey Wolves hunt their prey in packs. In times of winter hardship, they will also eat carrion. Their prey consists of any animal (deer, elk, moose, bison, etc.) that they can bring down and kill.
Wolves can eat anything from the big game to grasshoppers!

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A dead wolf would be eaten by large number of animals from other wolves, fox, wolverine, and carrion eaters such as crows, raven, eagle, to smaller animals such as mice, worms, flies etc.
Cougars are the only known creatures to kill and eat wolves.
arctic wolves eat snowy owls
An adult wolf: Almost nothing other then bald and gold eagles, and people. Albeit, people generally don't eat wolves, just kill them for the fur.

A puppy: Anything with sharp teeth. This includes coyotes, eagles, bears, badgers, wolverines, other wolves, foxes... the list goes on.

A dead wolf: Any scavenger, from eagles, ravens, foxes, and coyotes.
There are not many animals that will eat a wolf. The wolf tends to dominate its carnivorous competitors. However, a brown bear will sometimes attack a wolf in a dispute over a meal.
A bear or cougar might eat a wolf if they catch it alone, but since wolves usually live in packs this would not happen very often.
A wolf is a top predator, as part of a pack there are few animals which can defeat them. Their only real threat is humans who kill them for sport or economic reasons (to protect other species) or on rare occasions for food by indigenous populations.
Vultures and other scavengers. Although there are a number of animals capable of killing and eating a wolf, they tend to leave them alone as long as they are in a pack. The exception might be a brown bear, which could certainly overpower one or two wolves.

There is a difference in being able to win a fight and being able to do so without incurring unacceptable damage. Predators rarely pick on animals that can fight back, even allowing for differences in size. It is potentially unhealthy. Anyone can get lucky. A cat can become lame and unable to hunt from a rat bite, for example, even though it ends up eating the rat.
A full grown WOLF (not wolve) is not preyed upon by any animal, but wolf pups look vulnerable to a hungry grizzly bear.
Some things that eat wolves include:

  • Bears
  • Adult Mountain Lions

lots of things but the mane thing that eats wolves is humans! pirranian mountain dogs kill them and i think bears may as well Ravens, magpies and beetles will eat a wolf carcass. Other wolves will eat a wolf too, particularly one that is unfamiliar to a pack's territory or no longer belongs to a pack for a particular reason.
Some people think wolves are at the top of the chain; This is not necessarily true- more often than not, a Lynx, Bear, Lion, or Tiger will kill and eat a wolf. Normally this is if the wolf/wolves threaten to or kill their child(ren), but also occurs when food is scarce in Winter or during a famine.
nothing eats a wolf `it is on the top of the food chain
Wolves are predators, and predators are highly inefficient prey for other predators. Predators obtain nutrients needed for their specific physiologies from herbivores, whom get them more directly from plants. Eating a carnivore is nutritionally deficient and is not sustainable as an evolutionary trait. However, wolves are fiercely competitive with other predators. Bears and cougars are generally larger and stronger than wolves and are probably their worst natural enemies; however, humans by far are the greatest threat to wolves.
Cougars eat wolves
Other wolves;

http://www.newsminer.com/news/2009/feb/19/canid-carnage/

Tigers;

http://www.savethetigerfund.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Search1&template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentFileID=559

Some hunters;

http://books.Google.co.uk/books?id=DP0CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA466&dq=wolf+hunting&lr=&as_brr=3#PPA471,M1

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Wolves, being apex predators, have no natural predators themselves. Bears may kill wolves out of competition for food, but there has been no documented evidence of any bear eating a wolf. Wolves that are already dead, though, will often have their bodies scavenged by ravens, magpies, foxes, coyotes (though rare), vultures, crows, and other animals.

Wolves will almost never cannibalize each other unless they're starving due to shortage of food during the long winter months. Encounters with other wolves or a lone wolf are rarely fatal, but they can happen. However, most of the time such encounters result in no cannibalism. Most of the time if a pack finds a wolf that is no longer fit to lead the pack or is no longer welcome as being part of the pack for whatever reason, the confrontations result in little to no bloodshed and no loss of life.

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nothing. wolves are a dominant species.

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