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  2. Eurasian wolf - Wikipedia

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    The Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus), also known as the common wolf, [3] is a subspecies of grey wolf native to Europe and Asia. It was once widespread throughout Eurasia prior to the Middle Ages . Aside from an extensive paleontological record, Indo-European languages typically have several words for "wolf", thus attesting to the animal's ...

  3. Evolution of the wolf - Wikipedia

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    The wolves from the Carpathians were more similar to the wolves from the Ukrainian Steppe than they were to wolves from north-central Europe. These clusters may have been the result of expansion from glacial refugia, an adaptation to local environments, and landscape fragmentation and the killing of wolves in some areas by humans. [178]

  4. Favourable conservation status of wolves in Europe - Wikipedia

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    A mixture of the European subspecies is desirable from a population-biological point of view, as it increases genetic diversity. The favourable conservation status of wolves is the definition of a wolf population that is no longer threatened with extinction, that is capable of long-term survival. In Europe the favourable conservation status is ...

  5. List of gray wolf populations by country - Wikipedia

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    As of 2018, the global gray wolf population is estimated to be 200,000–250,000. [1] Once abundant over much of North America and Eurasia, the gray wolf inhabits a smaller portion of its former range because of widespread human encroachment and destruction of its habitat, and the resulting human-wolf encounters that sparked broad extirpation.

  6. Wolves in EU could lose safeguards, allowing culls as numbers ...

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    Campaigners also point to a 2023 EU report, which states that only around 50,000 of Europe’s 68 million sheep and goats are killed by wolves each year - 0.065% of the total number – adding ...

  7. Wolves in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Scottish wolf populations reached a peak during the second half of the 16th century. Mary, Queen of Scots is known to have hunted wolves in the forest of Atholl in 1563. [7] The wolves later caused such damage to the cattle herds of Sutherland that in 1577, James VI made it compulsory to hunt wolves three times a year. [1] The last wolf in Scotland

  8. List of European species extinct in the Holocene - Wikipedia

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    The Tatar-Cossack word "tarpan" was popularized for European wild horses in the 19th century, though today is sometimes limited to horses from central and eastern Europe. [ 44 ] Paleogenomics suggest that horses were domesticated independently in the Ponto-Caspian steppe and expanded to the rest of Europe by the Bronze Age.

  9. Wolf distribution - Wikipedia

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    In Southern Europe, some wolves remained because of greater cultural tolerance of the species. [citation needed] Wolf populations only began declining in the Iberian Peninsula in the early 19th century, and was reduced by a half of its original size by 1900. Wolf bounties were regularly paid in Italy as late as 1950.