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Under Canadian law, First Nations people can hunt wolves without restrictions, but others must acquire licenses for the hunting and trapping seasons. As many as 4,000 wolves may be harvested in Canada each year. [133] The wolf is a protected species in national parks under the Canada National Parks Act. [134]
Wolf distribution is the species distribution of the wolf (Canis lupus). Originally, wolves occurred in Eurasia above the 12th parallel north and in North America above the 15th parallel north. However, deliberate human persecution has reduced the species' range to about one-third, because of livestock predation and fear of wolf attacks on humans.
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 ...
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 ...
Map showing the number of wolf attacks in France by département from 1400 to 1918. According to documented data, man-eating (not rabid) wolves killed 111 people in Estonia in the years from 1804 to 1853, 108 of them were children, two men and one woman. Of the 108 children, 59 were boys aged 1 – 15 years (average age 7.3 years) and 47 girls ...
The life of a wolf pup comes with long odds. Gable said 70% of wolf pups in the VWP haven't lived to be 1 year old. In 2022-23 the study found an average of 1.7 pups per pack made it; but 18% of ...
The Himalayan wolf (Canis lupus chanco) [4] is a canine of debated taxonomy. [3] It is distinguished by its genetic markers, with mitochondrial DNA indicating that it is genetically basal to the Holarctic grey wolf, genetically the same wolf as the Tibetan and Mongolian wolf, [5] [6] [3] and has an association with the African wolf (Canis lupaster).
The northern Rocky Mountain wolf (Canis lupus irremotus), also known as the northern Rocky Mountain timber wolf, [ 3 ] is a subspecies of the gray wolf native to the northern Rocky Mountains. It is a light-colored, medium to large-sized subspecies with a narrow, flattened frontal bone. [ 4 ] The subspecies was initially listed as Endangered on ...