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  2. Wolves as pets and working animals - Wikipedia

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    Timber wolves and coyotes used as draught animals in northern Ontario, 1923. Wolves are less suitable than dogs for working. Swedish wolf biologist Erik Zimen once tried to form a dog sled team composed entirely of wolves. The experiment failed as the wolves ignored most commands and were far more prone to fighting than sled dogs. [6]

  3. Opinion: Wolves are back in Colorado's wilderness. Here's why ...

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    The presence of apex predators improves habitat quality and species viability down the food chain. This reintroduction could be a model for repairing ecosystems.

  4. Favourable conservation status of wolves in Europe - Wikipedia

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    In Baden-Württemberg there were five records of wolves from the Alpine and Italian populations in the period 2015 to 2020. [22] [23] In September 2020, a wolf (GW 1832 m) from the Alps arrived in the Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis. [24] Individual wolves from the Dinarides-Balkans population have also migrated as far as the German Alpine region.

  5. Wolf - Wikipedia

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    The wolf (Canis lupus; [b] pl.: wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a canine native to Eurasia and North America.More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, including the dog and dingo, though grey wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise naturally-occurring wild subspecies.

  6. Wolf reintroduction - Wikipedia

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    Local industry and environmental groups battled for decades over the Yellowstone and Idaho wolf reintroduction effort. The idea of wolf reintroduction was first brought to Congress in 1966 by biologists who were concerned with the critically high elk populations in Yellowstone and the ecological damages to the land from excessively large herds ...

  7. Arctic wolf - Wikipedia

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    A number of incidents involving aggressive wolves have occurred in Alert, Nunavut, where the wolves have lived in close proximity to the local weather station for decades and became habituated to humans. One of these wolves attacked 3 people, was shot, and tested positive for rabies. [20] Arctic wolf feeding on muskox carcass in Ellesmere Island

  8. African wolf - Wikipedia

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    Although African wolves are inefficient rodent hunters and thus not in direct competition with Ethiopian wolves, it is likely that heavy human persecution prevents the former from attaining numbers large enough to completely displace the latter. [59] Nevertheless, there is at least one record of an African wolf pack adopting a male Ethiopian wolf.

  9. Subspecies of Canis lupus - Wikipedia

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    The wolves of the Iberian peninsula have morphologically distinct features from other Eurasian wolves and each are considered by their researchers to represent their own subspecies. [ 134 ] [ 135 ] The taxonomic reference Mammal Species of the World (3rd edition, 2005) does not recognize Canis lupus signatus ; however, NCBI / Genbank does list it.