This is of course referring to a specific type of grey wolf, for people who are interested. The vast majority of wolves around the world are nowhere near this big. However, Grey/Timber wolves from NA are waaaaaay bigger than you would expect. We have a sanctuary for them where I live, and it is super lucky they are not terribly aggressive towards people.

One of them I saw was over 100lbs, (they are lighter for their size than dogs as they are narrower) and probably 6 feet long. It was a younger one, and was super happy to see us.

When going into the viewing potion of the sanctuary I noticed they had ~12 foot fences, and I swear that wolf was hitting 8-10 with every jump. Thew threw a whole elk in the pen, and a single wolf grabbed it and dragged it off on its own. They are freakishly strong and fast.

For whatever reason they are generally more curious about people than aggressive, as I said though, so all the wolves would hang out in the viewing area to people watch calmly whenever people showed up. The young ones wanted to play with the humans, but they are too strong and uncontrollable, so even if they did not intentionally hurt you they would still accidentally maul you.

Really interesting creatures.