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The wolf was killed in Calhoun County, roughly 300 miles (482 kilometers) south of the Upper Peninsula, during coyote hunting season. The DNR said it learned about it through social media posts.
The wolf was killed in January by a hunter who told investigators that he had mistaken it for a coyote. 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.
The animal was killed in January during a guided coyote hunt in the county, hundreds of miles from Michigan's known wolf population in the Upper Peninsula. The hunter believed the animal to be a ...
The Michigan DNR is unraveling the mystery of how an endangered gray wolf ended up in Calhoun County, miles from a wolf habitat in the U.P.
A wolf crept into camp and seized a sleeper's hand. When driven off, it attacked a second man and was later shot by a third. [120] Daniel Boone and Nathaniel Gist: Adult: ♂: 1761, late autumn: n/a: Wolf Hills, Valley of the Holston River, near Black's Fort at Abingdon, Virginia: Boone and Gist were both serving under Hugh Waddell (general ...
A "furious" wolf killed and partially ate a woman. [591] June 31, 1814 Unknown†, 8, female: Predatory: Saint-Moré, France: A wolf killed and ate a girl, and injured two other children on the same day. [591] May 26, 1814 Unknown†, 8, female: Predatory: Voutenay-sur-Cure, France: A wolf dragged away and ate a girl, and had bitten an older ...
The gray wolf is the largest wild member of the canid family, with males averaging 43–45 kg (95–99 lb), and females 36–38.5 kg (79–85 lb). [6] It is the most specialized member of its genus in the direction of carnivory and hunting large game.
The wolf population in Mongolia suffered quite intensive hunting periods in the early years of the 20th century, with up to 18,000 wolves being killed each year in the 1930s and 1940s, under the big and wide-range wolf hunts fostered and planned by the government.