The color of wolves allow them to blend into their environment. You'll see a lot of the same colors in the pelts of wolves and snow leopards even though their patterns are different. This helps wolves to pursue prey without being seen. Because wolves live in packs, they often work together and use the mountainsides and smaller ridgelines as "lookout points". On ridgelines that have these lookout points, you can see small areas dug out in the ground where wolves rest while also keeping watch.
Like all animals living on the Tibetan Plateau, Tibetan wolves are at large risk of losing their habitat to climate change. Warmer temperatures impact animals that they eat to survive. For example, maybe grasses and shrubs can't grow in warmer temperatures, so blue sheep have nothing to eat. Without anything to eat, the blue sheep die in large numbers, and then the wolves don't have anything to eat and also may die in large numbers. As an alternative, carnivores will find another food resource - livestock. Most local families rely on their livestock for income and food, so losing them to wild predators like wolves can be very frustrating. Snow leopards also occasionally eat livestock, so the same issue applies to them. In order to ensure livestock loss doesn't happen, some herders will kill wolves and snow leopards. Thankfully, there are ways to prevent livestock loss, such as keeping animals in predator-proof corrals or guarding them. Many areas also have livestock insurance. Herders are then paid when they lose livestock to a predator to off-set the money the lost.
