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Mexican wolves prefer to live in mountain forests, grasslands and shrub lands. Mexican Wolf Characteristics. The Mexican Wolf is also one of the smallest subspecies of North American grey wolves, reaching an overall length no greater than 135 centimetres whose maximum height is about 80 centimetres.
Mexican gray wolves were once widespread from central Mexico through the southwestern U.S. They have now been reintroduced in southeastern Arizona in the Apache National Forest and may move into western New Mexico to the adjacent Gila National Forest as the population grows.
Mexican wolves live in packs of approximately 4 to 8 individuals, which hunt collaboratively. Like other wolves, Mexican wolves communicate with scent marking, body postures, and a range of calls that include barks, growls, whines, and howling.
Habitat: Native only to Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico, Mexican gray wolves live in mountainous forests, woodlands, and desert. Status: Critically endangered. Population Trend: Increasing. Diet: Wolves are carnivores who eat primarily ungulates (hoofed animals) like deer, moose, and elk.
The Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) is the smallest and most genetically distinct of the gray wolf subspecies. They historically were found roaming the Desert Southwest—New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and southern Utah and Colorado—in forested, high-elevation (above 4,500 feet (1372 m)) mountainous terrain.
Where do Mexican wolves live? Historically, hundreds of thousands of Mexican wolves lived throughout the southwestern United States reaching down into Mexico. Currently, Mexican wolves live mainly in the mountain forests and scrublands of New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico.
The Mexican wolf, also known as the lobo, is the smallest subspecies of gray wolf. It is uniquely adapted to the arid environments of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, its historic range. Predator control programs nearly succeeded in eliminating the Mexican wolf from the landscape by 1970.
Along with lobos‘ current range in the Greater Gila Bioregion, the Grand Canyon area and the Southern Rockies are identified as prime habitat. Genetic Diversity. Mexican wolves in the wild are, on average, as related as brothers and sisters.
Mexican gray wolves are social animals and live in packs, usually with an alpha breeding pair and their offspring. Mating season is between mid-February to mid-March and after a 63-day gestation period, a litter of 4 – 7 pups is born blind and helpless.
The Collared Mexican Wolf Public Location Map displays generalized wolf locations and is updated every 2 weeks. Web Map by FWS_SRV_MexicanWolf