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This is a list of famous individual wolves, pairs of wolves, or wolf packs. For a list of wolf subspecies, see Subspecies of Canis lupus. For a list of all species in the Canidae family, several of which are named "wolves", see list of canids.
Northwestern wolves are one of the largest subspecies of wolves. In British Columbia, Canada, five adult females averaged 42.5 kg or 93.6 lbs with a range of 85 lbs to 100 lbs (38.6 - 45.4 kg) and ten adult males averaged 112.2 lbs or 51.7 kg with a range of 105 lbs to 135 lbs (47.6 - 61.2 kg), with a weight range for all adults of 38.6 kg to 61.2 kg (85 - 135 lbs). [9]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. Extinct species of canine mammal For the fictional creature in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, see Direwolf (Game of Thrones). For other uses, see Dire wolf (disambiguation). Dire wolf Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – early Holocene (125,000–9,500 years ago) Pre๊ ๊ O S D C ...
The wolf is the largest wild extant member of the family Canidae, and is further distinguished from other Canis species by its less pointed ears and muzzle, as well as a shorter torso and a longer tail. The wolf is nonetheless related closely enough to smaller Canis species, such as the coyote and the golden jackal, to produce fertile hybrids ...
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
Illustration of a Pleistocene wolf cranium that was found in Kents Cavern, Torquay, England [1]. It is widely agreed that the evolutionary lineage of the grey wolf can be traced back 2 million years to the Early Pleistocene species Canis etruscus, and its successor the Middle Pleistocene Canis mosbachensis.
The red wolf is an enigmatic taxon, of which there are two proposals over its origin. One is that the red wolf is a distinct species (C. rufus) that has undergone human-influenced admixture with coyotes. The other is that it was never a distinct species but was derived from past admixture between coyotes and gray wolves, due to the gray wolf ...
Wolf OR-7 became the first wolf west of the Cascades in Oregon since the last bounty was claimed in 1947. [139] Oregon's wolf population increased to 77 wolves in 15 packs with 8 breeding pairs as of the end of 2015. [125] As a result, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife proposed to delist wolves from their protected species list. [140]