The tail visible at a great distance serves, possibly, means of remote contact between animals. Welcoming each other, wolves wag their tail and a back part of their body and low-ranking animals in respect to high-ranking do it especially expressively. Showing their high hierarchical rank, wolves can bite the partner. However these actions have exclusively ritual character and are not accompanied with traumatizing the subordinated individual. Most often high-ranking wolf bites low-ranking's muzzle. Less often - they bite their withers, as though pressed down him to the ground. Characterizing as a whole wolves' poses, it is possible to note, that high-ranking animals interacting with pack partners have more frank poses, the head and a tail are highly lifted, animals stand straight on their legs. Low-ranking animals try to decrease in sizes, lower their head, and put their tail between the legs, drop to the weakened paws.
Low-ranking animals, showing their submission to high-ranking, can overturn to them on the ground, lying sidelong or even on their back and putting their chest and belly near the partner. High-ranking animals quite often thus show sideways posture, towering on high legs, in the confident pose above the laying partner. Blocking partner's actions, especially their aggressive intentions, wolves on a regularly show sideways posture. The sideways posture, possibly, to the greatest degree expresses confidence of a dominating animal above subordinates. It doesn't have elements of aggression, such as a grin and deep folds behind their nose.
In natural conditions wolves howl usually at late evening hours, less often at night and early in the morning. In artificial conditions wolves' behavior is to a considerable degree oriented to people. Contacts to them usually are noted for the certain rhythm. For example, wolves can howl during the dinner-time when people that serve animals pass by enclosures. Wolves know them well and positively react to them as they regularly received from them casual forage.
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