14 Facts About Indian wolf

Indian wolf is a subspecies of gray wolf that ranges from Southwest Asia to the Indian Subcontinent.

The Indian wolf is one of the most endangered populations of gray wolf in the world.

Indian wolf was first described to Western science in 1831 by the British ornithologist William Henry Sykes under the binomial Canis pallipes.

Indian plains wolf is formed by 2 closely related female lineage mitochondrial DNA haplotypes that fall within the Canis lupus pallipes subspecies of the gray wolf.

Indian wolf is similar in structure to the Eurasian wolf, but is smaller, more slightly built, and has shorter fur with little to no underfur.

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Indian wolf wolves are nocturnal and hunt from dusk to dawn, using different strategies for their various prey animals.

Finally, when they close the distance and attack, a single Indian wolf would grab the snout to asphyxiate the antelope while others attack the rear.

Indian wolf wolves are reported to use curiosity to lure antelopes in for a kill.

One story remarks that a Indian wolf rolled over, legs upright, when the blackbucks were feeding.

In modern India, the Indian wolf is distributed across the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

Indian wolf wolves have a history of preying on children, a phenomenon called "child-lifting".

Between April 1993 and April 1995, five Indian wolf packs attacked 80 children, 20 of whom were rescued, in Hazaribagh, West Koderma and Latehar Forest Divisions.

On January 2,2005, in the village of Vali Asr, near the town of Torbat Heydariya, northeastern Iran, a Indian wolf pack attacked a homeless man in front of witnesses.

Indian wolf wolves take a central role in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book series, in which a pack in the Seoni area of Madhya Pradesh adopts the feral child Mowgli, and teaches him how to survive in the jungle while protecting him from the Bengal tiger Shere Khan.