With the arise of Gray Wolves being reintroduced to Colorado and the first one being spotted in California in a hundred years, I’m seeing a lot of vocal comments pertaining to “Canadian” or “Mackenzie” Wolf. They are supposedly “bigger, stronger, more aggressive” than the smaller US wolves and suppo…

This one was not the first in California in a 100 years. A pack has lived in the Lassen area for a couple of years now. I really doubt wolves kill for sport.

[image] birdwhisperer: They are supposedly “bigger, stronger, more aggressive” than the smaller US wolves and supposedly kill for sport Why do you think there are nine times as many Americans as Canadians? Our weak and frail get picked off by them.

It may not be a productive use of time to wonder too much about it. Here in CA, there are a number of conspiracy theories about these wolves, including but certainly not limited to, 1) they are not ‘true’ gray wolves but are hybrids between wolves and dogs, 2) that they are not ‘true’ gray wolves s…

I thought that the plains wolf was considered extinct? I’m not sure which subspecies was native to most of Colorado, or even if the subspecies described way back when are held as valid, but from my memories of the place and my experience with the American west…you’re just going to get visceral anti…

[image] williampaulwhite17: I thought that the plains wolf was considered extinct? According to the 2003 taxonomy revision by Nowak, the Plains Wolf is apparently the subspecies that lives along the British Columbia coast and central Canada between the ranges of Northern and Eastern Timber Wo…

Here is a discussion on this very subject on Reddit (I was not the author): " The myth of “Canadian Gray Wolf” comes from deliberate mis-interpretation of common colloquial names (timber wolf, etc.) and the term sub-species. The “timber wolf” is simply another name for the gray wolf. There is no su…

[image] birdwhisperer: I practically grew up on wolves in Montana This is really something to hear – when I was going to school out there, wolves were limited to a handful of places in the state. The two I remember were the North Fork of the Flathead in Glacier, and Nine-mile Valley.

This 2012 publication by Chambers et al. in North American Fauna dives into the complex history and current status of wolf subspecies: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700981/

Popular beliefs about predators in general are almost always rife with drama-laden mythology, usually including elements of variations with “evil” behaviors and super-secret reintroductions by sinister wildlife agencies. Locally, my favorites are the ones that come up every time someone sees a Fishe…

[image] dinofelis: The same happened with the Manitoba elk and Eastern elk. Rocky Mountain elk have been introduced into parts of country inhabited by those extinct subspecies to fill the gap. Rocky Mountain elk now live in Tennessee, Wisconsin, Arizona, New Mexico and California, among other pl…

What is a "Canadian" Wolf?

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What is a "Canadian" Wolf?

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