Vancouver Island wolf

		Vancouver Island wolf
		He is a wild animal


Origin			Canada
Translation			Francis Vandersteen

The possession of this animal is not authorized Royal Decree establishing the list of mammals not kept for production purposes that may be kept (M.B. 24.08.2009)

The Vancouver Island wolf was identified as a subspecies of the gray wolf, Canis lupus crassodon, by zoologist E. Raymond Hall, PhD. in 1932.

Its original habitat extended from the northern Rocky Mountains to southern Alberta in Canada.

The Vancouver Island wolf is medium-sized, measuring around 66 to 81 cm in height, 1.22 to 1.52 m from nose to tail, and weighing 29 to 41 kg. They are generally a mixture of gray, brown and black. Occasionally, they are seen in pure white.

The Vancouver Island wolf's two main prey are Columbian black-tailed deer and Roosevelt elk. It also feeds on the white-tailed rabbit, which was brought to the island in 1964.

The breeding season for this wolf arrives in January.

The Vancouver Island wolf disappeared from surrounding islands like Salt Spring Island in the 1800s. In 1970, they joined the Canadian Wildlife Federation's list of "Endangered Wildlife in Canada". In 1973, the Vancouver Island wolf-watching program was launched with 37 wolves, in 1976 wolf populations on Vancouver Island seem to have rebounded with 88 wolves and, in 1977, they were removed from the provincial list of threatened and endangered species.