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The Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), also known as the lobo mexicano (or, simply, lobo) [a] is a subspecies of gray wolf (C. lupus) native to eastern and southeastern Arizona and western and southern New Mexico (in the United States) and fragmented areas of northern Mexico.
The Mexican Wolf was reintroduced into the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona in 1998 as part of a captive breeding program. [128] There were at least 42 wild Mexican wolves in the southwest United States in 2008. [128] [149] In 2014, there were around 83 Mexican wolves in the wild. [150]
Lobo was a North American Mexican gray wolf who lived in the Currumpaw Valley (Corrumpa Creek [1]) in New Mexico.During the 1890s, Lobo and his pack, having been deprived of their natural prey such as bison, elk, and pronghorn by settlers, became forced to prey on the settlers' livestock to survive.
The annual Mexican gray wolf census found at least 257 of the endangered wolves in New Mexico and Arizona, up 15 from the previous year. The count shows a 6% increase in the number of Mexican gray ...
The Mexican wolf, a subspecies of the gray wolf, was listed as endangered in 1976, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Thousands of these animals once lived across New Mexico, Arizona ...
As of 2023, the Mexican wolf population stood at 257, a big gain for a species that was on the brink of extinction.. The number is a stark contrast to decades prior, when the species was close to ...
By 2014, as many as 100 wild Mexican wolves were in Arizona and New Mexico. The final goal for Mexican wolf recovery is a wild, self-sustaining population of at least 300 individuals. [3] In 2021, 186 wolves were counted in the annual survey, of which 114 wolves were spotted in New Mexico and the other 72 in Arizona.
An endangered Mexican wolf captured last weekend after wandering hundreds of miles from Arizona to New Mexico is now being readied for a dating game of sorts as part of federal reintroduction efforts.