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Black wolves were occasionally reported in Asia.The "Derboun" of the Arabian mountains and southern Syria was a small black wolf which apparently was considered by the Arabs to be more closely related to dogs, as they freely ate its flesh like any other game, unlike with regular wolves which had an unpleasant odour. [5]
The gwyllgi (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡwɪɬɡi]; compound noun of either gwyllt "wild" or gwyll "twilight" + ci "dog" [1]) is a mythical dog from Wales that appears as a frightful apparition of a mastiff or Black Wolf (similar to a Dire wolf) with baleful breath and blazing red eyes. [2] It is the Welsh incarnation of the black dog figure of ...
This wolf is recognized as a subspecies of Canis lupus in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005). [2]Currently, this canid is widely considered to be a subspecies of the red wolf Canis rufus [5] and that a variation in the red wolf's coloring led to the creation of the Florida black wolf. [6]
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In late 2008, Wolf 302M decided to disperse from the pack with a group of five younger males (his nephews and sons), drifting through rival pack territories until joining four females of the Agate Creek Pack, one adult, one young adult, and two yearlings, to form the Blacktail Plateau pack in late 2008, which 302M began leading.
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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) [ 18 ] [ 19 ] with a weight of the male averaging 100 lb (45 kg) and the heaviest recorded at 150 lb (68 kg).
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