10 Facts About Greenland wolf

Greenland wolf is a subspecies of gray wolf that is native to Greenland.

Greenland wolf attributed the name Canis lupus arctos to a specimen from Melville Island in the nearby Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada.

Nowak proposed that during the Late Pleistocene two types of wolf evolved in the ice-free north of the Wisconsin glaciation, one in the Peary Land refugium in the far north of Greenland, the other in Alaska.

One author proposed that the Greenland wolf migrated from Canada by crossing the frozen sea ice between the two regions, and another has documented wolves on the ice when the Nares Strait froze.

In 2016, a study based on 582 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA indicated that Greenland wolf wolves belong to one haplotype that had been previously found among other North American wolves, which indicates their female lineage originated from North America.

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In 2018, a whole genome study of most North American wolf populations identified three distinct populations in the high arctic, including one novel and highly distinct wolf population that inhabits both Ellesmere Island, Canada and Greenland.

The recovery of the Greenland wolf populations came after when summer weather conditions returned to normal.

In 2018, it was estimated that the total population of the Greenland wolf was about 200, but with significant uncertainty due to its remote range.

Greenland wolf population was not harvested by the Europeans prior to 1899.

Between 1920 and 1932,35 wolves were killed in the core Greenland wolf range, forcing the population to decline rapidly to extinction.