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The She-Wolf, a Greek film; La lupa, also known as She-wolf, an Italian film by director Alberto Lattuada based on the short story by Giovanni Verga; The She-Wolf (Spanish: La Loba), a Spanish-language film directed by Rafael Baledón; Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, a 1975 Nazisploitation film
The Iberian wolf Canis lupus signatus Cabrera 1907 [2] is classified as Canis lupus lupus by Mammal Species of the World. [5] Some authors claim that the south-eastern Spanish wolf, last sighted in Murcia in the 1930s, was a different subspecies called Canis lupus deitanus. It was even smaller and more reddish in color, without dark spots.
The special status of the wolf was not based on national ideology, but rather was connected to the religious importance of the wolf to the Romans. [33] The comedian Plautus used the image of wolves to ponder the cruelty of man as a wolf unto man. "Lupus" (Wolf) was used as a Latin first name and as a Roman cognomen.
There was also a female given name Ochanda (meaning "female wolf", cf. the elegant tower in the old quarter of Vitoria-Gasteiz named after Ochanda, proper name of the daughter of a man responsible for revamping the tower in the 16th century) and Ochotorena or Otxotorena, meaning "son of Ochoto" (literally "small wolf"). The Spanish equivalent ...
Hunting Iberian wolves could become legal again as Spain's main opposition party joined far-right Vox in vowing to end protections for the endangered animal in a bid to attract rural voters. The ...
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
Left: product of a male wolf and a female spaniel; right: from a female wolf and a male West Siberian Laika. In the distant past, there was gene flow between African wolves, golden jackals, and grey wolves. The African wolf is a descendant of a genetically admixed canid of 72% wolf and 28% Ethiopian wolf ancestry.
Lupa (Latin for "she-wolf"; plural: Lupae) can refer to: . a female wolf; the goddess Artemis/Diana, in her "wolf form"; see Lupa (mythology) and e.g. Lupa Capitolina; the lowest class of Roman prostitutes, see Prostitution in ancient Rome#Brothels