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The wolf (Canis lupus; [b] pl.: wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a canine native to Eurasia and North America.More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, including the dog and dingo, though grey wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise naturally-occurring wild subspecies.
An MGM Wolf appeared as a Hollywood swinger in Red Hot Riding Hood and a foe against Droopy. Moro Princess Mononoke: The Goddess of Wolves. Mr. Bumble Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist: An old, brown wolf who is the master of the workhouse. Mr. Wolf The Bad Guys: A pickpocket gray wolf and the leader of the "Bad Guys" gang. Ralph Wolf: Looney ...
International Wolf Center, there are two “widely recognized species of wolves in the world, the red and the gray.” Pictured is the American grey wolf (Canis lupus lycaon). ©Jearu/Shutterstock.com
In 2021, a mitochondrial DNA analysis of North American wolf-like canines indicates that the extinct Late Pleistocene Beringian wolf was the ancestor of the southern wolf clade, which includes the Mexican wolf and the Great Plains wolf. The Mexican wolf is the most ancestral of the gray wolves that live in North America today. [18]
A California gray wolf, dubbed OR 85, in 2023. The wolf was fitted with a satellite collar to help the California Department of Fish and Wildlife track the state's burgeoning wolf population.
Wisconsin rules allowed gray wolves to be shot or poisoned year-round and provided a bounty for dead wolves into the 1950s. By the 1960s wolves persisted in the Lower 48 only in northern Minnesota ...
The northern Rocky Mountain wolf (Canis lupus irremotus), also known as the northern Rocky Mountain timber wolf, [3] is a subspecies of the gray wolf native to the northern Rocky Mountains. It is a light-colored, medium to large-sized subspecies with a narrow, flattened frontal bone . [ 4 ]
A new pack of gray wolves has shown up in California's Sierra Nevada, several hundred miles away from any other known population of the endangered species, wildlife officials announced Friday. It ...