Wolves can pursue their prey, exhaust it in an ambush or in deadlock, making complex maneuvers, expect a trajectory of prey's moving, etc. Wolves excellently take their bearings in the locality. Many packs constantly, from year to year use the same territories for cornering their prey. Such tight corners can be blockages of trees, stone placer or a tight corner in the proper sense of the word - a steep rock or a deep scour in a ravine. Getting in the corner, hoofed begin to jerk, trying to get out from it. In blockages or heaps of stones they quite often break extremities and then become easy prey of wolves. In many cases while some wolves exhaust a victim, others wait for it, not allowing getting out of deadlock. For deers such deadlocks become flooding ice on the mountain rivers, the thin ice strewn lightly by the first snow or blown snow in winter. Wolves quite often exhaust saigas in the dried up lakes where in the autumn and in the spring the bottom softened by water turns to difficultly passable dirt, and hoofed flounder.
In the winter wolves quite often turn hoofed out to ice crust. Wolves' relative loading on a trace is in 2 - 3 times less, than of majority of hoofed. Therefore wolves' prey, escaping on an ice crust, gets tired very quickly, falling through a deep snow, and thus frequently wounding legs upon sharp sides of the frozen snow. Quite often wolves drive their victim on other members of pack, hidden in an ambush. This way they hunt on saigas. Several of them wait, having hidden in barchans, and others slowly urge antelopes on them. During hunting for goats and rams wolves can use narrowing in rocks. Some wolves hide behind rocks, and others urge hoofed on to an ambush. Long active prosecution of a prey is not characteristic for wolves. As a rule, it is short jerk on some tens, less often - some hundreds meters. Often they can move behind herd, not giving out their presence and waiting for the moment convenient for solving actions. Such passive prosecution can last many days.
Quite often wolves watch for their prey on watering places, overpasses, rest spots or pasturages. In these cases silently crept and unexpectedly sharply appeared several wolves cause panic among hoofed, that facilitates to predators an opportunity to intercept and keep randomly running up animals. Victims of wolves often become newborn and young hoofed in places of their concentration. Among domestic hoofed sheep and reindeers more often suffer from wolves. In sheep-breeding, especially mountain areas the wolf is the most usual predator till now. But quite often wolves attack horses. Having played havoc in herd with their unexpected occurrence, they snap a victim at its muzzle, a groin while the weakened animal does not stop and does not become their prey. Besides hoofed, wolves' prey can become and many other animals, especially during summer when parents feed puppies, and the pack breaks up and predators live by single or in small groups. During this time wolves eat insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and various mammals, on which they also have fulfilled skilful methods of hunting. Hares become more often than others victims of wolves.
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