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In North America, the coat colours of wolves follow Gloger's rule, wolves in the Canadian arctic being white and those in southern Canada, the U.S., and Mexico being predominantly gray.
There is only one true wolf species in North America, the gray wolf. There are five subspecies of the gray wolf in North America. There were initially thought to be 24 subspecies of the wolf, but in 1985, the mammalogist Robert M. Nowak proposed only five. Eastern wolf; Great Plains wolf; Mexican wolf; Northwestern wolf; Arctic wolf
The Mackenzie wolf is one of the most common types of wolves in North America. It goes by many different names, including the northwestern wolf, the Alaskan timber wolf, and the Canadian timber wolf.
The northwestern wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis), also known as the Mackenzie Valley wolf, [5] Alaskan timber wolf, [6] or Canadian timber wolf, [7] is a subspecies of gray wolf in western North America. Arguably the largest gray wolf subspecies in the world, it ranges from Alaska, the upper Mackenzie River Valley; southward throughout the ...
gray wolf, (Canis lupus), largest wild member of the dog family (Canidae). It inhabits vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Between 5 and 24 subspecies of gray wolves are recognized in North America and 7 to 12 are recognized in Eurasia, with 1 in Africa. Wolves were domesticated several thousand years ago, and selective breeding produced dogs.
Gray wolves (Canis lupus) are the largest wild members of Canidae, or dog family, with adults ranging in weight from 18 to 80 kilograms (40 to 175 pounds), depending on sex and geographic locale. Gray wolves have a circumpolar range including North America, Europe and Asia.
The gray wolf's story is one of the most compelling tales of American wildlife. Once, the wolf was widespread across most of North America, but it was hunted ruthlessly and extirpated over most of its range.
North America has two species of wolves, Gray Wolf and Red Wolf. The scientific name of the Gray wolf is Canis lupus, while that of the Red Wolf is Canis rufus. North America has five subspecies of gray wolves – Artic wolf, North-western wolf, Great Plains wolf, Mexican wolf, and Eastern timber wolf.
Today, about 15 to 17 red wolves roam their native habitats in eastern North Carolina as a nonessential experimental population, and approximately 241 red wolves are maintained in 45 captive breeding facilities throughout the United States.
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]