Wolves are animals that may enter and devour a shepherd’s flock. A shepherd having many sheep watches over them “that the wolves enter not and devour his flock”. If “a wolf enter his flock,” the shepherd drives it out and, if able, destroys it (Alma 5:59).
False prophets come “in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (3 Nephi 14:15). “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,” and “a little child shall lead them” (2 Nephi 21:6).