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They have occasionally appeared, as wolf-dog hybrids are known in Russia as "black wolves", [30] and currently, 20–25% of Italy's wolf population is composed of black animals. [31] They are more common in North America; about half of the wolves in the reintroduced wolf population in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park are black.
They are described as a large, light-colored wolf but with black and white varying between individual wolves, with some all white or all black. The average body length ranges from 1.4 m (4.6 ft) to 1.96 m (6.4 ft) [19] [20] with a weight of the male averaging 100 lb (45 kg) and the heaviest recorded at 150 lb (68 kg).
Skulls of various wolf subspecies from North America Present and historical range of wild subspecies of C. lupus.This map uses the more broadly defined North American subspecies of Nowak (1995), [1] [2] but see also the map under the section titled North America.
The wolf has been a protected animal in Romania since 1996, although the law is not enforced. The number of wolves in Albania and North Macedonia is largely unknown, despite the importance the two countries have in linking wolf populations from Greece to those of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Although protected, sometimes wolves are still ...
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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 ...
The study also indicated that all North America wolves have a significant amount of coyote ancestry and all coyotes some degree of wolf ancestry, and that the red wolf and eastern wolf are highly admixed with different proportions of gray wolf and coyote ancestry. The study found that coyote ancestry was highest in red wolves from the southeast ...
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