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Caption: Alexander Archipelago Wolf One of the three Coastal wolves

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Caption: Alexander Archipelago Wolf (Canis lupus ligoni) The Alexander Archipelago Wolf also known as the Island Wolf, is a subspecies of the gray wolf, Canis lupus.

Caption: It is one of the three Coastal wolves of southwest Alaska that inhabit the area, Alexander Archipelago Island, and a narrow strip of rugged coastline that is biologically isolated from the rest of North America by the Coast Mountains. The Tongass National Forest comprises about 80% of the region. In 1993, a petition to list the Alexander Archipelago Wolf as threatened under the U.S. Endangered species Act was lodged with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Caption: The agency decided in 1997 that listing was not warranted at that time.interim, a multiagency conservation assessment of the species was published. In 2011, a second petition to list the species as either threatened or endangered was filed with Fish and Wildlife Service. It referenced scientific studies and other information that had arisen over the interviewing 14 years, in March 2014, in response to the petition, finding that listing the species as threatened or endangered may be warranted and that it will prepare a formal status review.

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Caption: This wolf is recognized as a subspecies of Canis lupus in the taxonomic authority “Mammal Species of the World “ (2006). Early taxonomists were able to determine that the Alexander Archipelago Wolf was its on unique subspecies due to “common cranial characteristics, taxonomists have suggested more recently that the species may have originated from another subspecies known as C..l. Nublis. Studies using mitochondrial DNA have indicated the wolves of Coastal, Southeast Alaska are genetically distinct from inland gray wolves,

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Caption: reflecting a pattern also observed in other taxa. They show a phylogenetic relationship with extirpated wolves, from (Oklahoma) indicating that these

Caption: Wolves are the last remains of a once widespread group that has largely extirpated during the last century, and wolves of northern North America had originally expanded from Southern refuges below the Wisconsin glaciation after the ice had melted at the end of the last glacial maximum. These findings call into question the taxonomic classification of c.l. Nulibus. Another study found that the wolves of Coastal British Columbia were genetically ecologically distinct from inland wolves, including other wolves from inland British Columbia. A study of the three Coastal wolves indicated a close phylogenetic relationship across regions that are geographically and

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Caption: ecologically contiguous and the study proposed that c.l. ligoni ( Alexander Archipelago Wolf) c.l. Columbiaus ( British Columbia Wolf ) and c.l. crassondon (Vancouver Island Wolf) should be recognized as a single

Caption: subspecies of c. lupus. In 2016 two studies compared the DNA sequences of 42,000 single - nucleotide polymorphisms. In North American gray wolves to be genetically and phenotypically distinct from other wolves. They share the same habitat and prey species, and from one of the study’s six identified ecotype a genetically and ecologically distinct populations by their different type of habitat. The local adaptation of a wolf ecotype most likely reflects the wolf’s preference to remain in the type of habitat that it was born into. Wolves that prey on fish and small deer in wet coastal environments tend to be small than other wolves.

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Caption: Typically smaller than the other North American subspecies of Wolf , the Alexander Archipelago wolf averages between 30 and 50 lbs. they are about 3 1/2 ft long and 2 ft tall at the shoulder. Their coat is generally dark gray, with varying patterns of lighter shades, individuals from different islands in the Archipelago have a propensity for different color phases, from pure black and white to a much brighter cinnamon color. The primary prey of this species is the Sitka black tailed deer, which comprises as much as 90% of the individuals diet.

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