Let's reconsider what the hunters did: If this wolf was able to survive like this it should be in his genes. So if they would have captured it they could make it breed. If this would have happened there would have been chances (depending on where the gene is located) that mor wolfes like that would have been born. Those hunters killed our one chance to get a race of wolfes that are pretty ******* close to the ones from adventure time. ******* russia
its not so much a question of the wolf surviving a spinal deformity but more that other wolves didnt sense it was ****** up and kill it as survival of the fittest