Species group · Mammals

Wolves

WAnimals has 6 species of wolf, in the family Canidae.

6 species

1 family

79 countries

115 parks

All 6 species of wolves on WAnimals

Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.

2 Least Concern2 Not Evaluated1 Endangered1 Critically Endangered

2 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.

Recorded in 79 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:

It can cover up to 50 km in a single night's hunting.
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It howls to communicate with the pack over several kilometres.
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Its reintroduction to Yellowstone changed the park's entire ecosystem.
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The most threatened canid in the world, at fewer than 500 animals; it hunts high-altitude rodents alone.
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It lives in a pack but hunts alone: the group defends the territory collectively and then each animal disperses to stalk rodents on its own, a combination that is rare among canids.
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It has been documented feeding on the nectar of the flowers of the Ethiopian red hot poker, its muzzle stained with pollen, which would make it the largest carnivorous pollinator known.
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It has been recognised as a species only since 2015: until then it was wrongly classified as a golden jackal, in a celebrated case of evolutionary convergence.
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The ancient Egyptians associated it with the god Anubis, and many of Egypt's canine mummies belong to this species.