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The Great Plains wolf (Canis lupus nubilus), also known as the buffalo wolf or loafer, is a subspecies of gray wolf that once extended throughout the Great Plains, from southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada southward to northern Texas in the United States. [ 5 ] The subspecies was thought to be extinct in 1926, until studies declared ...
The Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus), also known as the common wolf, [3] is a subspecies of grey wolf native to Europe and Asia. It was once widespread throughout Eurasia prior to the Middle Ages . Aside from an extensive paleontological record, Indo-European languages typically have several words for "wolf", thus attesting to the animal's ...
Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology. The wolf is a common motif in the foundational mythologies and cosmologies of peoples throughout Eurasia and North America (corresponding to the historical extent of the habitat of the gray wolf), and also plays a role in ancient European cultures. The modern trope of the Big Bad Wolf arises from ...
Wolf communication. Wolves communicate using vocalizations, body postures, scent, touch, and taste. [ 1 ] The lunar phases have no effect on wolf vocalisation. Despite popular belief, wolves do not howl at the Moon. [ 2 ] Gray wolves howl to assemble the pack, usually before and after hunts, to pass on an alarm particularly at a den site, to ...
The Mexican wolf is the smallest of North America's gray wolves, [9] while also being one of the more colorful and visually-distinctive subspecies. It is similar to the Great Plains wolf (C. l. nubilus), albeit distinguishable by a smaller, narrower skull and darker, more variable pelage (which is typically a sandy- to yellowish-gray with "highlights" of blacks, browns and some whites).
The eastern wolf (Canis lycaon[ 5 ] or Canis lupus lycaon[ 6 ][ 7 ]), also known as the timber wolf, [ 8 ]Algonquin wolf and eastern timber wolf, [ 9 ] is a canine of debated taxonomy native to the Great Lakes region and southeastern Canada. It is considered to be either a unique subspecies of gray wolf or red wolf or a separate species from ...
They were thought to be agents of witches and could bring bad luck (hence the superstition that killing a spider is bad luck). And, by nature, many spiders fit well into the scary Halloween ...
Wolf's Rain: The last wolves to live on the earth after humans have long since rendered earth uninhabitable. Timber Wolf G.I. Joe: A pet of Joe operative Snake Eyes: Whisper the Wolf: Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Publishing) A lone, quiet, traumatized wolf who is a friend of her Wisps, one of Sonic's allies, and former member of the Diamond Cutters ...