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1923, March. Pack of wolves. Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan. "March 16, 1923 Karl Lynn world war veteran and one of the best known trappers and mushers in the north country is believed to have lost his life in a fight with a pack of timber wolves, two hunters reported here today.
Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada A wolf attacked and severely injured a boy who was sleeping outside with his family at a campsite. The family had earlier joined a group of Scouts in howling for wolves, which had been answered by a solitary wolf. Officials subsequently baited the campsite and a wolf was captured and destroyed.
The dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus[10] / iːˈnɒsaɪ.ɒn ˈdaɪrəs /) is an extinct canine. The dire wolf lived in the Americas (with a possible single record also known from East Asia) during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs (125,000–9,500 years ago). The species was named in 1858, four years after the first specimen had been found.
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 ...
Red wolves were once 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]
OR-7, California's first resident wolf in over 80 years. In late December 2011, OR-7, a male gray wolffrom Oregon, became the first confirmed wild wolf in Californiasince 1924, when wolves were considered extirpatedfrom the state. The first resident wolf packwas confirmed in 2015, after two adults migrated from Oregon and had five pups.
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 moose populations have ranged from 500 to 2500 while the number of wolves has ranged from almost 50 [1] to down to two. [2][3] From 2018 to 2019, 19 wolves were released at Isle Royale in hopes of bringing stability to the ecosystem, and as of 2020, there are estimated to be 14 wolves remaining on the island.