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Colorado ranchers penned a letter to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials and Governor Polis calling for wolves to be lethally removed, as cattle are being killed by the predators.
Wolves were reintroduced in the northern Rocky Mountains in the 1990s and since at least 2014, solitary wolves have entered Colorado. A resident group in northwestern Colorado was confirmed in early 2020. In June 2021, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) reported that the first litter of wolf pups had been born in the state since the 1940s.
Description. The culpeo is a canid intermediate in size between a red fox and a coyote. It is the second-largest native canid on the continent after the maned wolf. In appearance, it bears many similarities to the widely recognized red fox. It has grey and reddish fur, a white chin, reddish legs and a stripe on its back that may be barely visible.
The Great Plains wolf ( Canis lupus nubilus ), also known as the buffalo wolf or loafer, is a subspecies of gray wolf that once extended throughout the Great Plains, from southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada southward to northern Texas in the United States. [ 5] The subspecies was thought to be extinct in 1926, until studies declared ...
The presence of apex predators improves habitat quality and species viability down the food chain. This reintroduction could be a model for repairing ecosystems.
Colorado officials anticipate releasing 30 to 50 wolves within the next five years in hopes the program starts to fill in one of the last remaining major gaps in the western U.S. for the species ...
The dire wolf ( Aenocyon dirus[ 10] / iːˈnɒsaɪ.ɒn ˈdaɪrəs /) is an extinct canine. The dire wolf lived in the Americas (with a possible single record also known from East Asia) during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs (125,000–9,500 years ago). The species was named in 1858, four years after the first specimen had been found.
Coywolf. 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 ...