Kenai Peninsula wolf
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C. l. alces
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The Kenai Peninsula wolf (Canis lupus alces), also known as the Kenai Peninsula grey wolf,[4] was a sub-species of the gray wolf, Canis lupus, that lived on a peninsula in southern Alaska known as Kenai Peninsula.[5]
History
The species was classified in 1944 as one of the four subspecies in Alaska by Edward Goldman.[6]
Wolves were common on the Peninsula before 1900, however gold was discovered there in 1895. Miners fearing rabies commenced poisoning, hunting and trapping the wolves and by 1915 they had been extirpated.[7][8][9] The wolf was officially declared extinct in 1925.[1]
Re-population of wolves from other areas onto the peninsula didn't occur until the 1960s. It has been shown through DNA studies that, at minimum, the current population of wolves on the Kenai Peninsula mated with other Alaskan subspecies, as the structure of the current wolf population's DNA is similar to other mainland Alaskan subspecies.[10][11][12][11]
Description
The wolf was 7 feet (210 cm) long, 45 inches (110 cm) tall, and weighed 200 pounds (90 kg).[13][unreliable source?] The wolf was dependent on the very large moose of the Kenai Peninsula and Goldman proposed that its large size was an adaption to this.[14][15]
A skull is held by the Smithsonian museum, specimen number USNM 147471.[16]
References
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- ↑ Goldman, E. A. 1941 Sep 30. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 54: 109.
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- ↑ "Kenai wildlife may be more special than you think". Peninsula Clarion (2010-07-15). Retrieved on 2012-12-31.
- ↑ Peterson, R.O. and J.D. Woolington. 1982. The apparent extirpation and reappearance of wolves on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Pages 334-344 in Harrington, F.H. and P.C. Paquet (eds.). Wolves of the world. Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, New Jersey. 474 pp
- ↑ Palmer, L. J. 1938. Kenai Peninsula moose. Research Project Report, Bureau of Biological Survey-Sept.-Oct. 1938. Unpubl. report, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge files, 24 pp,typewritten
- ↑ Effects of Increased Human Populations on. Wildlife Resources of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Edward E. Bangs. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1982[1]
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- ↑ The Wolf Subspecies website 2012
- ↑ Goldman EA. 1944. Classification of wolves: part II. Pages 389– 636 in Young SP, Goldman EA, editors. The wolves of North America. Washington, D.C.: The American Wildlife Institute.
- ↑ L. David Mech, The Wolf:The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species, The Natural History Press, 1970, Appendix A page 2
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- Wolves
- Extinct mammals of North America
- Fauna of Alaska
- Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
- Mammal extinctions since 1500
- Extinct animals of the United States
- Extinct canids
- Subspecies of Canis lupus
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