Canis Minor

Review: In many small populations, inbreeding depression had created a major obstacle in the conservation of natural populations. To determine level of inbreeding in the Scandinavian wolf, Canis Lupus, DNA techniques were combined with the ecological field to construct the pedigree. This small population was founded by at least by two immigrated wolfs from a large Finnish/Russian source population. The field data was collected from the snow tracking and radio telemetry, and territorial pairs and

Over the course of the past few weeks, students have presented topics regarding pollution and endangerment of species. However, one of the three most interesting topics for me was the red wolf. This name is very peculiar, for you would expect it to be more scientific. However, it’s sad story just makes the name look irrelevant. The red wolf has been hunted down by early settlers, making it’s wildlife population to be fourteen. That is shocking, for this unique animal is suffering because of our needs

B.C. Coastal Wolves: Pelt Colour Variation Due to Ecological Factors Introduction The Grey Wolf (Canis Lupus) is a widely distributed species throughout parts of the world, from the Arctic regions to dry deserts (Bohman. 2005). In British Columbia alone, the estimated population of this species is around 8,000 (Musiani. Paquet. 2004). Since the Grey wolf is such a widespread mammal, it is inevitable that you’d find diversity within a closely related species, which is a key concept of evolution.

As the population is growing more crops and cattle for farms are expanding and this has started to cause the Gray Wolves to get in the endangered list in 1976. Within those farms, Gray wolves would invade the livestock and gather food from the farms. When the farmers witness their livestock being eaten and taken away from the wolves they would kill and shoot the animals to defend their farm. Since there are so many farms the food stock has become limited for them so they have to find whatever food

As the most widely of all land mammals, the gray wolf (Canis lupus), is also one of the most adaptable. People think wolves are evil or a monster to some from stories like “Little Red Riding Hood” where the wolf dresses up as grandmother to scare little red riding hood. Or “Werewolf” where human turns into a wolf at night. Wolves are not bad. The wolf is truly a special animal. Wolves travel in packs with rankings, features, and how they commutation. The weight, and length, and paws of a full

In this essay I will be informing readers about the history of the wolf in the western part of the United States, the wolf’s status as an endangered species, and its effect on the ecosystem and what we as humans can do to manage it. In North America as far back as the 19th century, 200,000 to 500,000 wolves lived among the Native American people. Wolves played a major part in nearly all legends and mythology of the Native American tribes. Since that time, many things have changed; today, the Native

In 1753, Carl Linnaeus listed among the types of quadrupeds familiar to him the Latin word for dog, canis. Among the species within this genus, Linnaeus listed the red fox (as Canis vulpes), wolves (Canis lupus), and the domestic dog (Canis canis). In later editions, Linnaeus dropped Canis canis and greatly expanded his list of the Canis genus of quadrupeds and, by 1758, included alongside the foxes, wolves, and jackals and many more terms that are now listed as synonyms for domestic dog, including

In rural North America, in present day Billing, Montana, over 600 years ago, there once live a tribe that was fierce as a bear and yet stayed together like a pack of wolves and trickery as a fox. Altogether, it builds an ultimate warrior of pure ferociousness and blunt force. Other tribes tended to more soft than the tribe I was in . While most tribes were farmers and gathers, our tribe was mainly hunters, we raided other tribes of their goods. Until one winter morning that day was gonna change

Many scientists over the years have tested and retested the theory that dogs are a modern branch off wolves. One theory states that dogs and wolves are evolved from an ancient European wolf that is now extinct. Another says that over the years wolves became so domesticated, they became today’s cute and loveable pet. Another theory says that dogs and wolves mated over the years to create modern day friendly pets we welcome in our homes. Could our adorable, sweet puppies really have originated from

Sabrina Flanigan Mr. Haggard 3rd Hour Biology 11 May 2016 “Why Wolves are Forever Wild, but Dogs Can Be Tamed”. Science Daily. Jan. 17, 2013. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130117152012.htm Wolves Wild but Dogs Tame Wolves and Dogs are closely related, yet dogs tame much easier than wolves. Dogs and wolves have two different social windows. Little knowledge was known about how a wolf develops, and there was a mystery on how dogs could be so tame and wolves wild. Studies were done