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The Scientific Classification Of Wolves: Canis Lupus Soupus, L. David Mech
The Scientific Classification Of Wolves: Canis Lupus Soupus, L. David Mech
USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Gray wolf, timber wolf, red wolf, eastern wolf, brush wolf, arctic wolf, Mexican wolf, maned wolf, Ethiopian wolf, etc., etc. How many kinds of wolves are there? And what are the differences? This is a really good question, and the answer is getting more complicated all the time. Let us start by going back a few years to the way science looked at wolves more traditionally— before the days of the new field of molecular genetics. Molecular genetics examines the actual DNA of animals and tries to classify them according to genetic similarities. ...
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