Mexican Wolf
The Mexican gray wolf,Canis lupus baileyi,is the most genetically distinct sudspecies of the gray wolf. Of the five North Amican subspecies of gray wolf, the Mexican gray wolf is the smallest in size. Since the Mexican gray wolf was extirpated before scientific research was conducted, most of what was initially learned about them was through trappers' journals. A typical Mexican gray wolf ia about 51/2 feet long, from snout to tail, weighs from 60 to 80 pounds, and has a coat of buff, gray, red and black. Like all wolves, the Mexican gray wolf is a very social animal who uses many techniques to communicate with its pack mates, such as body language, scent marking and vocaliztion. Typical prey for Mexican gray wolves consists of white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, javelina, jack rabbit, cottontails and smaller mammals.
Commonly called "lobo " the Mexican gray wolf has all but disappeared from its historic range in the southwestern United States and throughout Mexico. Predatory controls from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s made it the rarest gray wolf in North America. By the late 1970s, the Mexican gray wolf had virtually disappeared in the southwestern United States. It was listed as endangered on the federal endanered species list in 1976.
There are only about 200 Mexican wolves in the world. Most are part of a captive breeding program in 40 zoos and wildlife sanctuaries located in the United States and Mexico to prevent extinction of the subspecies. In March 1998, the first 11 Mexican wolves from captive stock were reintroduced into the wild in the Apache National Forest in southeastern Arizona under a program to re-establish the subspecies to a portion of its historic range.
For more information about the Mexican gray wolf
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Heres a few photo of the Mexican gray wolf
Photo by George Adrejko, AGFD Photo by Jim Clark, USFWS
Photo by Jim Clark, USFWS
Photo by Jim Clark, USFWS
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