Gray wouf Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene – present (810,000–0 years BP[1])
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Eurasie wouf (Canis lupus lupus). | |
Conservation status
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Faimily: | Canidae |
Genus: | Canis |
Species: | C. lupus |
Binomial name | |
Canis lupus | |
Subspeshies | |
refer Subspeshies o Canis lupus | |
Historical (reid + green) an modren (green) range o wild subspeshies o C. lupus |
A wouf (Canis lupus) is sib tae a dug. The speshies wis the warld's maist widely distribute mammal but haes become extinct in hintle o Wastren Europe, in Mexico an hintle o the Unitit States. Wouves occur primarily but no exclusively in wilderness an remote auries. Thair oreeginal warldwide range haes been reducit bi aboot ane-third bi deliberate persecution due tae depredation on livestock an fear o attacks on humans. Tho the species still faces some threats, it is relatively widespread wi a stable population trend an haes been assessed as Least Concern bi IUCN syne 2004 acause o that.
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