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They suggest that the eastern U.S. is the historical range of the eastern wolf, and not the gray wolf as previously thought.

June 30, 2010 — A Center settlement with the Fish and Wildlife Service required the agency to respond by July 31, 2010 to our August 2009 petition asking for recognition of the Mexican gray wolf as an endangered species separate from gray wolves in the rest of the country.

December 9, 2012 — The Center sued the Fish and Wildlife Service over the agency's rejection of a 2009 scientific petition from the Center that sought classification of the Mexican gray wolf as an endangered subspecies or population of gray wolves.

Salazar has said he wants to revisit Bush - era regulations that open much of the West to oil shale development, the delisting of the gray wolf as an endangered species, and a rule that allows federal agencies to avoid consulting scientists on whether the Endangered Species Act applies to certain projects.

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They battle injuries, the elements — oh, and a pack of gray wolves stalking them as they try to keep warm and find shelter.

The African species is more closely related to the lineage leading to gray wolves and coyotes than jackals, which explains their new designation as African golden wolves.

Two well - accepted species of wolf - like canid animals inhabit North America: the gray wolf — currently listed as endangered — and the widespread coyote.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has accepted the eastern wolf of the Great Lakes region as a distinct species, and has proposed removing the gray wolf in the eastern United States from endangered species protection.

But last March, amid considerable outcry from area ranchers, biologists loosed 14 Canadian gray wolves in three packs into the park as part of a larger plan to reintroduce the animal to the northern Rocky Mountains.

The wolf pack is often pictured as the model of cooperative hunting, but not all gray wolves (Canis lupus) work together to bring down their prey.

Adam Freedman of Harvard University and an international group of collaborators compared DNA from three breeds of dogs (a boxer, a Basenji and an Australian dingo) to that of three gray wolves (Canis lupus) from Croatia, China and Israel — three locations proposed as centers of dog domestication.

In 1973, a new law called the Endangered Species Act made it a crime to harm animals such as the gray wolf.

August 11, 2009 — The Center petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to formally separate the Mexican gray wolf from other U.S. wolf populations and list it under the Endangered Species Act as either an endangered subspecies or a «distinct population segment.»

introduced legislation today that would give the states of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as ranchers, the right to dictate the terms of Mexican gray wolf recovery, undermining the scientific standards of the Endangered Species Act.

August 3, 2010 — In response to our petition and lawsuit, the Fish and Wildlife Service determined that the Mexican gray wolf might qualify for listing as an endangered species separate from other wolves.

Mexican gray wolves were reduced to just seven animals as a result of a federal program of trapping and poisoning that was only halted through the 1973 passage of the Endangered Species Act.

Read on to learn more about the lives of Mexican gray wolves, their tragic history and near - extinction, their role as a top - of - the - food - chain carnivore and their present constricted range.

Reintroduction of the Mexican gray wolf began in 1998, yet by 2013, the federal government had shot 12 wolves, accidentally killed 18 as a consequence of capture and captured 37 wolves that so far have been kept in captivity (most for a long time).

The Rock stars as Davis, a primatologist whose best friend — an orphaned albino gorilla named George — is transformed into a building - size monster by an experimental mutagen, along with a gray wolf and an American alligator.

Using its P3 newsletter, which is distributed to thousands of schools nationwide, the group has signed up children to dress up as mountain lions, sharp - eyed falcons, and gray wolfs to publicize the plight of endangered creatures and to educate budding environmentalists about «Planet 3.»

The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris or Canis familiaris) is a member of the genus Canis (canines), which forms part of the wolf - like canids, and is the most widely abundant terrestrial carnivore Cite journal The dog and the extant gray wolf are sister taxa as modern wolve...

All dogs carry the same evolutionary origin and DNA as the gray wolf.

A federal judge ruled Thursday that gray wolves in Montana and Idaho must be given the same protections under the federal Endangered Species Act as their cousins in Wyoming.

Listed as a co-sponsor of H.R. 509, a bill that would amend the Endangered Species Act of 193 to delist the gray wolf (canis lupus).

Prior to decades of systematic hunting and poisoning of gray wolves, the iconic predator could be found in nearly every corner of the North America, from the northern wilds of Canada to as far south central Mexico.

But when one female gray wolf wandered into Kentucky for the first time in 150 years, its return wasn't heralded as a welcome sign of the species» recovery.