Artic Wolves this far down

[jobber604]

Making me do more digging on the internet.
http://unexplainedmysteriesoftheworl...daho-residents

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[Keri]

Any info to go with the picture? That is one big puppy I would guess would be pushing the record size, and it doesn't look doctored. Doesn't look like the wolves from the Ft. St. James area though . . That looks more like an Alaskan or arctic wolf rather than our timbers.

It may be just the angle of the picture but the snout doesn't look right for a wolf . I wonder if it is a wolf/dog hybrid .

Really looks a lot more like a malamute mix to me as well. I grew up in Yellowknife NWT and I can tell you for sure the wolves up there were NOT 250lbs and you rarely ever saw them. Now if you are stupid enough to let your dog run loose alone in the woods that's another story, he might just get eaten. Wolf attacks on humans are rare and usually involve rabid or desperate single wolves but despite that statements like the first post in this thread continue and people keep killing wolves out of fear.

[Hammer]

Glad we got the "not an arctic wolf" thing sorted out. I spend some time in the more remote drainages in the Lower Mainland as well as around B.C. (i.e. more than 60 days a year in every season). Areas like the Elaho, Upper Stave (i.e. beyond Stave Lake), Upper Pitt, and Lower Lillooet River all have growing elk herds due to successful transplants as mentioned earlier. Wolves can be found in all of those areas and I have seen wolves or sign in all those areas. Certainly, wolves present some possible danger, but attacks really rare. More interesting might be the really surprising number of grizzlies that are quite close to populated areas in the lower mainland.

As for wolf size, those ones around PG and Fort St James can get pretty big, I have never weighed one, but I have some pretty neat footage from a helicopter of a couple wolves hunting down a moose in the snow from that area.

just my 2 cents - Interesting thread.

Hammer

[big_bubba_B]

actually if you read up on Grey wolves Arctic wolves are just a color variety of them .

[Grete_J]

actually if you read up on Grey wolves Arctic wolves are just a color variety of them .

That's actually incorrect if you do further reading. Arctic wolves are a SUPSPECIES of Canis Lupus with skeletal differences. That'd be the same as saying your common boa (Boa Constrictor Imperator) is the same as your lesser known Boa Constrictor Constrictor. There are big differences between the 2 subspecies including temperament, structural build, colors/markings, to name a few