Omegaverse : Different types of wolves part 7

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Omegaverse different types of wolves :

Kenai Peninsula wolves

Name : Kenai Peninsula wolf Subspecies : Canis lupus alces Nickname : The Alaskan wolf

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Name : Kenai Peninsula wolf
Subspecies : Canis lupus alces
Nickname : The Alaskan wolf

Kenai Peninsula wolves, also known as the Kenai Peninsula grey wolf, was a subspecies of the gray wolf. Canis lupus, that lived on a Peninsula in southern Alaska known as Kenai Peninsula. The species was classified in 1944 as one of the four subspecies in Alaska by Edward A. Goldman, while there is a current wolf population on the peninsula, the lack of genetic similarity to the original species has resulted in a classification of extinction for the original Kenai Peninsula wolf subspecies

Diet :

The species in its hunt for the large moose that roamed the peninsula. They inhabited the Kenai Peninsula and adjacent areas in Alaskalt fed largely on moose which is how its scientific name Canis lupus alces was derived. It would also feed on other large ungulates

Endangered :

Yes. Kenai Peninsula wolves were plentiful on the Kenai Peninsula in the late 1890s. However, the gold rush brought prospectors to the area, and by 1915 wolves were almost completely exterminated by means of predator control programs using poison, along with heavy hunting and trapping

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