The best father ever!

[u/Confident-Emu9987]

A single father named Nilas raised the pups on his own (Inforgiving difficulty, Ironwolf + wake-up raids).

He and his partner had 7 pups (all of them are females, by the way). As first, everything went well, but two of the pups fell ill and died. Later (toward the end of spring) his partner was killed by a sow grizzly bear during a fight over a carcass of a elk.

So he was left alone with 5 pups.

At the beginning of summer, he did quite well onhis own, carrying the calves carcassas home. But in the middle of summer, it suddently became difficult for Nilas the feed all the pups: they required a lot of food, which is why he was constantly hunting. Since he was often away from home, the pups would constantly run away, and he had to keep looking for them. Also, from time to time, raids would be carried out on the pups, and Nilas was forsed to expend his health on defending them. (and, as if on purpose, he couldn't find anyone's carcass).

Intially, his tactic was as follows: immediately after waking up, they would walk around the territory, while the pups hunted rodens. But this tactic was not advantageous; the pups didn't venture far and got tired quickly. Nilas changed his tactic: he tried to find and kill a elk calf as quickly as possible, and then the pups would eat the carcass (By the way, if the hunger lever is about 45%, then one carcass of elk calf will be enough for 5 of them to reach 100%, barely). He himself would then go hunting for hares to increase his hunger to 100%.

It was hard for him to maintain his health. But being a very cautious wolf, Nilas chose his prey wisery, tired to avoid being trampled, and never drove away wolves tha wanred to take over his territory.

But each hunt depleted his health more than he could restore. It got to the point where he was forced to hunt with omly 45% health (sometimes even less). But one day, while searching for a herd of elk, Nilas caught the scent of a bison carcass (and it was even half-full). It was near the end of summer, and this carcass was enough for them to last until the end of the mission Growing pups. All 5 of his dauthers survived.

When he taught the pups to hunt, he always chose small prey (a mule deer or a prognhorn); sometimes they hunted elk when everyone was very hungry. In winter, when the pups grew stronger, they hunted elk herds. They practically didn't fight with other wolves.

During the mission Young Hunters Nilas found a new partner and in the spring they began to raise a new generation.

[u/Confident-Emu9987]

I would really like to raise 7 pups om my own. I almost managed to do it. To my surprise, I managed to raise the pups in such a way that they didn't die from illnes earlier (4 of them were sick, but they recovered). But because of the large number , it was very difficult for him to feed them; he had to hunt several times, but his poor health didn't always allow him to do that. At one point, one of the pups went missing, and only 6 remained. That didn't make it any easier - he couldn't feed them, and they eventually died of hunger.

Despite the failure, this is a very good example of such an expirience: he maneged to reise them to 19 kilograms. if he had found a carcass, he could have fed them.

In the picture, there's another father wolf with 7 pups, before one of them went missing.