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 that its descendants were found in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.[6] They were described as a large, light-colored wolf but with black and white varying between individual wolves, with some all white or all black. The Native Americans of North Dakota told of how only three Great Plains wolves could bring down any sized bison.[7]
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the smallest of North America's gray wolves, and is similar to the GreatPlainswolf (C. l. nubilus), though it is distinguished by its smaller, narrower...
the southern wolf clade, which includes the Mexican wolf and the GreatPlainswolf. The Mexican wolf is the most ancestral of the gray wolves that live...
Some haplotypes possessed by the Mexican wolf, the GreatPlainswolf, and the extinct Southern Rocky Mountain wolf were found to form a unique "southern...
approaches the GreatPlainswolf in skull and tooth morphology, though possessing a narrower rostrum and palate. It is a large, white-colored wolf closely resembling...
American". The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-307-81913-0. GreatPlainswolf; buffalo wolf; loafer. This...
The GreatPlains, sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located just to the east of the Rocky Mountains...
difference between a "prairie wolf" (coyote) and on the next page of his journal a wolf which he named Canis nubilus (GreatPlainswolf). Say described the coyote...
Plains Indians or Indigenous peoples of the GreatPlains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have...
wolf clade, which includes the Mexican wolf and the extinct GreatPlainswolf. The Mexican wolf is the most ancestral of the gray wolves that live in North...
The WolfPlains Group is a Late Adena culture group of 30 earthworks including 22 conical mounds and nine circular enclosures. The Plains, originally...
Harding County was the nickname given to a solitary North American male GreatPlainswolf who killed livestock at ranches in Harding County, South Dakota, USA...
Wars of the mid to late 19th century, Native American warriors of the GreatPlains, sometimes referred to as braves in contemporary colonial sources, resisted...
January 2018. Extinct Mammals of the United States: Plainswolf, Canus lupus nubilus (1926) — GreatPlains Leonard, Jennifer A.; Vilà, Carles; Wayne, Robert...
The shortgrass prairie is an ecosystem located in the GreatPlains of North America. The two most dominant grasses in the shortgrass prairie are blue grama...
University of Illinois Press. p. 256. ISBN 0-252-07125-5. Parker, W.T. (1990) Red Wolf Recovery Plan. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 110 pages. Nowak, R. M. (2002)...
The GreatPlains Reservoirs are a group of reservoirs along both sides of U.S. Highway 287 in Kiowa and Prowers counties in southeastern Colorado. Fed...
from the 2 meter (6 ft 7 in) wolf to the 46 cm (18 in) fennec fox. Population sizes range from the Falkland Islands wolf, extinct since 1876, to the domestic...
latrans Gray wolf, Canis lupus reintroduced Northwestern wolf, C. l. occidentalis GreatPlainswolf, C. l. nubilus EX Southern Rocky Mountain wolf, C. l. youngi...
(Canis familiaris) with a gray wolf (Canis lupus), eastern wolf (Canis lycaon), red wolf (Canis rufus), or Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) to produce a...
States have mild domestic dog (C. lupus familiaris) and western GreatPlains gray wolf (C. l. nubilus) influences in their gene pool, suggesting that the...
Coyote, Canis latrans Gray wolf, Canis lupus extirpated Northern Rocky Mountain wolf, C. l. irremotus extirpated GreatPlainswolf, C. l. nubilus EX Gray...
common ancestral wolf population that existed 20,000 years ago. A 2021 study found that the Himalayan wolf and the Indian plainswolf are part of a lineage...
mogollonensis EX Texas wolf, C. l. monstrabilis EX GreatPlainswolf, C. l. nubilus EX Southern Rocky Mountain wolf, C. l. youngi EX Gray fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus...
latrans Gray wolf, Canis lupus Northern Rocky Mountain wolf, C. l. irremotus GreatPlainswolf, C. l. nubilus extinct Northwestern wolf, C. l. occidentalus...
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