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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]
Two gray wolves were captured in north-central Washington state in July 2008, one of which was a nursing female. This was the first evidence of reproducing wolves in the state since the 1930s. [133] As of the end of 2022, Washington has at least 216 wolves in 37 packs with 5 breeding pairs. [134]
The eastern wolf (Canis lycaon[ 5 ] or Canis lupus lycaon[ 6 ][ 7 ]), also known as the timber wolf, [ 8 ]Algonquin wolf and eastern timber wolf, [ 9 ] is a canine of debated taxonomy native to the Great Lakes region and southeastern Canada. It is considered to be either a unique subspecies of gray wolf or red wolf or a separate species from ...
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The wolf (Canis lupus; [ b ]pl.: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey 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 gray wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise naturally-occurring wild subspecies.
[99] [12] [153] This suggests that none of the modern wolf populations are related to the wolves that were first domesticated and the wolf ancestor of dogs is therefore presumed extinct. [12] [153] Recent mitochondrial DNA analyses of ancient and modern grey wolf specimens supports a pattern of population reduction and turnover.
A coywolf is a canid hybrid descended from coyotes (Canis latrans), eastern wolves (Canis lycaon), gray wolves (Canis lupus), and dogs (Canis familiaris). All of these species are members of the genus Canis with 78 chromosomes; they therefore can interbreed. [1] One genetic study indicates that these species genetically diverged relatively ...
Since wolves were extirpated in Nebraska in the early 1900s, there has been three instance of confirmed wolf presence as of 2021. The first was in 2002 and all the dispersers have been from the Great Lakes region. [23] There are four known cases of wolves being shot by coyote hunters in Iowa since 2014. [21]