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Eastern Timber Wolf
Conservation status
Endangered
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Genus: Canis Species: C. lupus Subspecies: C. l. lycaon
Trinomial name
Canis lupus lycaon Schreber, 1775
Eastern Timber wolf range

The Eastern Timber Wolf (Canis lupus lycaon) is an endangered subspecies of the Gray Wolf and is native to North America. "Timber wolf" used to refer to any North American wolf that lived within forested areas, but this designation has more recently been reserved for this specific subspecies of the grey wolf with the help of contemporary genetic findings. Image File history File links Circle-question-red. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 1. ... The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. ... Image File history File links Status_iucn3. ... The critically endangered Siberian Tiger, a rare subspecies of tiger. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Digimon, the only known animals. ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... Subclasses Allotheria* Order Multituberculata (extinct) Order Volaticotheria (extinct) Order Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Order Triconodonta (extinct) Prototheria Order Monotremata Theria Infraclass Marsupialia Infraclass Eutheria The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the production of milk in females for the nourishment of young, from mammary glands present on most species... Families 17, See classification The diverse order Carnivora (IPA: or IPA: ; from Latin carō (stem carn-) flesh, + vorāre to devour) includes over 260 placental mammals. ... Genera Alopex Atelocynus Canis Cerdocyon Chrysocyon Cuon Cynotherium † Dusicyon † Dasycyon Fennecus Lycalopex Lycaon Nyctereutes Otocyon Pseudalopex Speothos Urocyon Vulpes Wikispecies has information related to: Canidae Canidae is the family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals commonly known as canines. ... Species Canis lupus Canis lycaon Canis rufus Canis latrans Canis aureus Canis adustus Canis mesomelas Canis simensis Canis dirus(extinct) Canis is a genus that includes several of the modern wolf and jackal species, including the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) which is thought to be the ancestor of the Domestic... “Gray Wolves” redirects here. ... Trinomial nomenclature is a taxonomic naming system that extends the standard system of binomial nomenclature by adding a third taxon. ... Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739 - 1810) was a German naturalist. ... Image File history File links Present_distribution_of_wolf_subspecies_easttimbr. ... “Gray Wolves” redirects here. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... For a non-technical introduction to the topic, please see Introduction to genetics. ...

Physical Attributes

See also: Gray Wolf Features and Adaptations

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Size

The Eastern Timber Wolf is one of the larger subspecies of grey wolves, especially length-wise.

• Length generally varies from 150 to 180 centimetres (58.5 - 70 inches), including the tail. Larger individuals can have tails up to 50 cm (19.5 inches) in length, and can approach 200 cm (78 inches) in length overall.
• Typical height ranges from 65 to 85 centimetres (25 - 33 inches) at the shoulder.
• While eastern timber wolves can achieve weights of up to 45 kilograms (100 lb), the average male weighs around 35 kilograms (77 lb), while females weigh about 30 kilograms(66 lb).

Coloration

Timber Wolves typically have silver or gray-brown coats with a lighter tan or cream undercoat. During winter months fur colorations tend to become darker.

Diet

Natural prey for Eastern Timber Wolves include deer, hares, mice, muskrat, and beaver. Prey changes seasonally for wolves. Their favourite prey are beavers in summer, and White-tailed Deer and caribou in the winter months. “Fawn” redirects here. ... Genera Lepus Caprolagus Pronolagus Hares and Jackrabbits belong to family Leporidae, and mostly in genus Lepus. ... Feral mouse A mouse (plural mice) is a rodent that belongs to one of numerous species of small mammals. ... Binomial name Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1766) Muskrat range (native range in red, introduced range in green) Muskrat lodge, middle Patuxent River marsh, Maryland The Muskrat or Musquash (Ondatra zibethicus), the only species in genus Ondatra, is a large aquatic rodent native to North America, and introduced in parts of Europe. ... Species C. canadensis C. fiber Beavers are semi-aquatic rodents native to North America and Europe. ... Binomial name Castor canadensis Kuhl, 1820 A taxidermied American Beaver The American Beaver (Castor canadensis) is a large semi-aquatic rodent native to Canada, most of the United States and parts of northern Mexico. ... Binomial name Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann, 1780 The White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized deer found throughout most of the continental United States, southern Canada, Mexico, Central America and northern portions of South America as far south as Peru. ... Binomial name Rangifer tarandus The reindeer, known as caribou in North America, is an Arctic-dwelling deer (Rangifer tarandus). ...

Other “lycaons”

Canis lycaon

Eastern Timber Wolves should not be mistaken for the Eastern Canadian Wolf, Canis lycaon. Originally thought to be the same wolf, new genetic testing and data has revealed that wolves occupying the Algonquin Park region in Canada are actually a separate species more closely related to the Red Wolf. There is still a great deal of turmoil in the scientific community as this change is being undertaken. The Eastern Canadian Wolf, Canis lycaon, is a newly recognized wolf species identified as early as 1970, but was not genetically confirmed until 1999. ... Algonquin Provincial Park is a Provincial Park in central Ontario, Canada. ... Binomial name Canis rufus Audubon & Bachman, 1851 The Red Wolf (Canis rufus), is the rarest and most endangered of all wolves[]. It is thought that its original distribution included much of eastern North America, where Red Wolves were found from Pennsylvania in the east, Florida in the south, and Texas...

African Wild Dog

The lycaon (Lycaon pictus) is an unrelated canid. Binomial name Lycaon pictus (Temminck, 1820) African Wild Dog range The African Wild Dog, Lycaon pictus also known as the African Hunting Dog, Cape Hunting Dog, or Painted Hunting Dog, is a mammal of the Canidae family, and thus related to the domestic dog. ...

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