Here I've seen several times where a single lobo or a pair are using the same routes and crossings as a pack, just a couple days apart. Seems like the single is usually a big male and I assume that he is often an older male that has been booted from the pack, a pair seems to usually be yearlings, also I assume either booted or left on their own voluntarily. Last year I was trapping an area with a pack and a big lobo like that. I got all the pack except a smaller female, and within a week that big lobo had paired up with her.

We don't usually have the big packs here that I hear about some places, although I have seen where two packs joined and stayed together for a few days and then split back into their respective packs again. Something that I've never heard a biologist allude to happening. I seen where a pack of eight was today, that is a big pack for this area, I would say three to six is the norm.