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Evolution of the wolf. Illustration of a Pleistocene wolf cranium that was found in Kents Cavern, Torquay, England [1] It is widely agreed that the evolutionary lineage of the grey wolf can be traced back 2 million years to the Early Pleistocene species Canis etruscus, and its successor the Middle Pleistocene Canis mosbachensis. [2][3] The grey ...
Global wolf range based on IUCN's 2023 assessment. [1] The wolf (Canis lupus; [b] pl.: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, including the dog and dingo, though gray wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise ...
By 5 million YBP the larger Canis lepophagus, ancestor of wolves and coyotes, appeared in the same region. [1]: p58 Around 5 million years ago, some of the Old World Eucyon evolved into the first members of Canis, [14] and the position of the canids would change to become a dominant predator across the Palearctic.
The Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), also known as the lobo mexicano (or, simply, lobo) [a] is a subspecies of gray wolf (C. lupus) native to eastern and southeastern Arizona and western and southern New Mexico (in the United States) and fragmented areas of northern Mexico. Historically, the subspecies ranged from eastern Southern California ...
Red wolves were originally distributed throughout the southeastern and south-central United States from the Atlantic Ocean to central Texas, southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Illinois in the west, and in the north from the Ohio River Valley, northern Pennsylvania, southern New York, and extreme southern Ontario in Canada [2] south to the Gulf of Mexico. [14]
The Arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos), also known as the white wolf, polar wolf, and the Arctic grey wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to the High Arctic tundra of Canada's Queen Elizabeth Islands, from Melville Island to Ellesmere Island. [3][4] Unlike some populations that move between tundra and forest regions, [5] Arctic wolves spend ...
Wolves traversed a Rocky Mountain pathway from Canada to Mexico until the 1940s. They are seen by wildlife experts as essential to the native balance of species, species interactions, and ecosystem health. [6] Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) created a multidisciplinary working group that drafted a wolf management plan for possible reintroduction.
Of the 108 children, 59 were boys aged 1 – 15 years (average age 7.3 years) and 47 girls aged 1 – 17 years (average age 7.2 years). For two children, sex and age were not specified." [ 53 ] So in Estonia, 111 deaths were reported in about 50 years, with an average of two per year over a country area of 45,227 km 2 , and with some injured ...