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have also been identified-Canis lupus deitanus and Canis lupus signatus.
While the first is similar to many of the other European wolves, the latter may
be more closely related to the jackal (Canis aureus), than to a wolf. The
Caucasion Wolf (Canis lupus cubanensis) is found in many parts of eastern Europe
and western Asia. The large tundra wolf of eastern Asia, the Tundra or Turukhan
Wolf (Canis lupus albus), is very close in relations to the wolves of northern
Alaska.
In the Arctic Islands and Greenland the Melville Island Wolf (Canis
lupus arctos), the Banks Island Wolf (Canis lupus bernardi), the Baffin Island
Wolf (Canis lupus manningi), and the Greenland wolf (Canis lupus orion), are all
found.
Wolves of the Continental Tundra and Newfoundland include the Alaska
Tundra Wolf (Canis lupus tundrarum), the Interior Alaska Wolf (Canis lupus
pambasileur), the Kenai Peninsula Wolf (Canis lupus alces), the Mackenzie Tundra
Wolf (Canis lupus mackenzii), the Mackenzie Valley Wolf ...

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than the Mexican Wolf and used to be commonly found in Texas. Now, both
of these subspecies have been exterminated in the United States but still can be
found in the Sierra Madre Occidental and the mountains of western Coahuila and
eastern Chihuahua, in Mexico.
The Eastern of Timber Wolf (Canis lupus lycaon) and the Great Plains or
Buffalo Wolf (Canis lupus nubilus) could originally be found on almost 25% of
North America. Today, however, due to competition with settlers, the Buffalo
Wolves were exterminated by the early 1900s. The Timber Wolf, for the same
reason, can no longer be found in the United States, but still is common in
Ontario and Quebec.
There are three main ...

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