Who is the father of the puppies?

Unlike male dogs, male wolves are not fertile all year round.
They only mate once a year, and always in late winter. Everything focuses on this time and that is why the foreplay between females and males is so important. Since not only the highest ranking, but all males are stimulated by the female in heat, it can happen, that a younger male, whose sex drive awakens earlier than that of the older alpha male. mates properly with the female. However, fertilization rarely occurs. Successful mating is reserved for the alpha male.
Usually the alpha male makes it, to assert oneself. Gradually he crowds out the other males and from then on runs first behind the female.
He sleeps with him, walks with it and doesn't leave it for a second.
And then the wolf is ready, that she can be fertilized, is he?, who rides on her and "hangs" with her, as the canine predators say.
The animals stand with their behinds against each other. The male's penis swells inside the female's vagina, so the male for 15 to 20 minutes is downright "tied" to the female. This ensures fertilization by the male for as long as possible, how he hangs with the female and no other male can cover it. Only when the penis swells again, the wolves get away from each other again.
Also in the next eight to 14 The alpha male stays with his female for days. Mating is repeated several times a day. Neither of them eats much during this time. The hunt has practically stopped. It's all about the mating. But even the lower-ranking males don't give up. They follow the couple's every step and should the alpha male be inattentive, one of them will be there immediately. Sometimes the alpha female lets him do it, but mostly she chases him away now. The exciting time of Ranz is coming to an end.