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The Michigan DNR is unraveling the mystery of how an endangered gray wolf ended up in Calhoun County, miles from a wolf habitat in the U.P. Gray wolf ends up in southwest Michigan, far from U.P ...
An animal a Michigan hunter thought was a big coyote when he shot it in January has been determined to be a gray wolf, the first time the species has been found in southern Michigan in more than a ...
By December 2011, Oregon's gray wolf population had grown to 24. One of the Oregon gray wolves, known as OR-7, traveled more than 700 miles (1,100 km) to the Klamath Basin and crossed the border into California. [138] Wolf OR-7 became the first wolf west of the Cascades in Oregon since the last bounty was claimed in 1947. [139]
Michigan’s gray wolf population in the Upper Peninsula is estimated to be its highest in 12 years and may have reached its natural limit, the state’s Department of Natural Resources said in a ...
It was a shock: While gray wolves are common in Michigan's Upper Peninsula — the latest estimate is more than 700 — the state's southern Lower Peninsula doesn't offer the proper habitat. “We just don't know how it got there,” Brian Roell, wolf expert at the state Department of Natural Resources, said.
The wolf, designated M93 by Isle Royale researchers and later nicknamed "Old Gray Guy" because of his pale fur, was larger and more territorial than the other Isle Royale wolves. Old Gray Guy's pack grew to an unusually large 10 wolves, and drove one of the other four packs to extinction.
In 2021, a mitochondrial DNA analysis of North American wolf-like canines indicates that the extinct Late Pleistocene Beringian wolf was the ancestor of the southern wolf clade, which includes the Mexican wolf and the Great Plains wolf. The Mexican wolf is the most ancestral of the gray wolves that live in North America today.
Wildlife experts have hit a dead end in their quest to determine how a gray wolf arrived in southern Michigan for the first time in more than 100 years. It was a shock: While gray wolves are ...