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MARSHALL, Mich. (AP) — An animal a Michigan hunter thought was a big coyote when he shot it in January has been determined to be a gray wolf, the first time the species has been found in ...
Since 1973, the gray wolf has been on and off the federal government's endangered species list. When the wolves are on the list, advocates say the protections help wolves' place in the natural ...
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. [17]
By December 2011, Oregon's gray wolf population had grown to 24. One of the Oregon gray wolves, known as OR-7, traveled more than 700 miles (1,100 km) to the Klamath Basin and crossed the border into California. [138] Wolf OR-7 became the first wolf west of the Cascades in Oregon since the last bounty was claimed in 1947. [139]
Michigan gray wolf population at highest in 12 years, new survey finds. Gannett. Diamy Wang, Detroit Free Press. June 14, 2024 at 11:47 AM. Michigan’s gray wolf population in the Upper Peninsula ...
It was a shock: While gray wolves are common in Michigan's Upper Peninsula — the latest estimate is more than 700 — the state's southern Lower Peninsula doesn't offer the proper habitat. “We just don't know how it got there,” Brian Roell, wolf expert at the state Department of Natural Resources, said.
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.
Wildlife experts have hit a dead end in their quest to determine how a gray wolf arrived in southern Michigan for the first time in more than 100 years. It was a shock: While gray wolves are ...