SCIENCE
ZOOLOGY
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gray wolves (Canis lupus) are the largest wild members of Canidae, or dog family, with adults ranging in weight from 18 to 80 kilograms (40 to 175 pounds), depending on sex and geographic locale. Gray wolves have a circumpolar range including North America, Europe and Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -ABBREVIATION : CALU COMMON NAMES : gray wolf grey wolf timber wolf eastern timber wolf Rocky Mountain wolf lobo buffalo wolf brown wolf TAXONOMY : There are 32 subspecies of gray wolf worldwide; 24 of these occur in North America.
Detailed explanation-3: -Coyotes, however, are not wolves. Coyotes and wolves are in the same family (Canidae) and genus(Canis), but are separate species, just as foxes and wolves are separate species. Like wolves, coyotes have been persecuted because of their predatory nature.