Loyalty, affection, and playfulness. Wolves are extremely loyal to other members of their pack-they mate for life and will take care of sick and injured pack members. They show affection to each other every day in the form of licking and nuzzling-this helps to reinforce their bonds. They are very playful and protective animal, and usually play daily-they chase each other, play-fight, play tug-of-war with sticks or pieces of their ****, and throw objects such as sticks or bones into the air and catches them again. They have been observed to cease play for around weeks after the pleath of a pack member, and howl often, as though calling for the missing individual. They show clear signs of behaving mourning. There are even times in which, when one of a mated pair dies, the other will stop eating until it too dies.