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by Soruc » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:28 am
wolves+horses wrote:Wow. I know, right? :)
BTW: See? Many gray wolves ARE endangered!
(not trying to start a fight)
The correct term would be "Grey wolf subspecies". Grey wolves themselves are not endangered.
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by lightscales » Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:12 pm
Poke- wrote:Little do most people know, grey wolves (canis lupis) is a species of wolf, branching out into many subspecies
The arctic grey- thriving
The Mexican grey- endangered
The Benards grey- Endangered
The tundra grey - Unknown
The Rocky mountain grey - Unknown
The Labrador grey- Endangered
The alexander archipelago grey- 750 left
The eastern grey- endangered
The makenzie tundra grey- endangered
The Baffin island grey- endangered
The buffalo grey - endangered
The Canadian timber grey - endangered
The Greenland grey- unknown
The Interior alsakan grey- unable to be studied
The Alaskan tundra grey- unable to be studied
The kenai peninsula grey- extinct in 1925
The Newfoundland grey- Extinct in 1911
The British columbian grey- extinct
The Cascade mountain grey- Extinct in 1940
The Manitoba grey- Extinct
The Mongollan mountain grey- Extinct in 1945
The Texas grey- Extinct in 1942
The South rocky mountain grey- extinct by 1935
Opened your eyes a bit didn't it?
That's really interesting, I've never heard of almost all these species
That's because most people think of a grey wolf as a type of wolf, not a species with subspecies.
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by lightscales » Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:30 pm
Frost Bite wrote:There are only two types of wolves- The Grey Wolf, and the Red Wolf. They do, however, have many subspecies.
Saying thats a grey wolf is like saying thats a dog.
understand what I mean?
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by Nushkly » Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:11 pm
Demotivated_bear wrote:Frost Bite wrote:There are only two types of wolves- The Grey Wolf, and the Red Wolf. They do, however, have many subspecies.
You forgot the Mexican wolf. *goes back to lurking*
Nope, she's right. The mexican wolf is one of the many subscepies of the gray wolf.
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