Wolves and Wild Dogs

Wild members of the dog family, such as wolves, foxes and other wild canines.

4 entries

Gray WolfCanis lupusA social, pack-living predator that was once the most widespread mammal on Earth.Maned WolfChrysocyon brachyurusA long-legged, red-coated South American canine that is neither a fox nor a true wolf, and eats as much fruit as meat.Mexican Gray WolfCanis lupus baileyiThe smallest gray wolf, nicknamed "el lobo," which was wiped out in the U.S. by the 1970s and is now making a small comeback in the Southwest.Red WolfCanis rufusThe world's most endangered wolf, a family-pack hunter that now lives in the wild only in eastern North Carolina.