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  2. Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology - Wikipedia

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    An old she-wolf with a sky-blue mane named Ashina found the baby and nursed him, then the she-wolf gave birth to half-wolf, half-human cubs, from whom the Turkic people were born. Also in Turkic mythology it is believed that a gray wolf showed the Turks the way out of their legendary homeland Ergenekon , which allowed them to spread and conquer ...

  3. List of legendary creatures (G) - Wikipedia

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    Gancanagh – Male fairy that seduces human women; Gandabherunda – Double-headed bird; Gandharva – Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal; Gargouille – Water dragon; Garkain (Australian Aboriginal) – Flying humanoid who envelops his victims; Garmr – Giant, ravenous hound

  4. Northwestern wolf - Wikipedia

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    Northwestern wolves are one of the largest subspecies of wolves. In British Columbia, Canada, five adult females averaged 42.5 kg or 93.6 lbs with a range of 85 lbs to 100 lbs (38.6 - 45.4 kg) and ten adult males averaged 112.2 lbs or 51.7 kg with a range of 105 lbs to 135 lbs (47.6 - 61.2 kg), with a weight range for all adults of 38.6 kg to 61.2 kg (85 – 135 lbs). [9]

  5. Great Plains wolf - Wikipedia

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    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. [17]

  6. List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    Yawkyawk, Aboriginal shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod. Yee-Na-Pah, an Arrernte thorny devil spirit girl who marries and echidna spirit man.

  7. Eastern wolf - Wikipedia

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    [14] [10] The 2012 study proposed that there are three true canis species in North America – the gray wolf, the western coyote, and red wolf/eastern wolf with the eastern wolf represented by the Algonquin wolf, with the Great Lakes wolf being a hydrid of the eastern wolf and the gray wolf, and the eastern coyote being a hybrid of the western ...

  8. Asena - Wikipedia

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    Asena is the name of a she-wolf associated with the Gokturk foundation myth. [1] The ancestress of the Göktürks is a she-wolf, mentioned yet unnamed in two different "Wolf Tales". [ 2 ] The legend of Asena tells of a young boy who survived a battle; a female wolf finds the injured child and nurses him back to health.

  9. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

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    Apedemak – depicted as a figure with a male human torso and a lion head; Bast – Lioness goddess of fertility and protection against disease. Hert-ketit-s; Ḥuntheth – A lioness goddess; Ipy (goddess) – head and feet of a lion, body of a hippo, arms of a human; Maahes – name means "he who is true beside her"