The Tibetan wolf (Canis lupus chanco), also known as the woolly wolf, is a gray wolf subspecies native to Asia from Turkestan throughout Tibet to Mongolia, northern China and the Indian subcontinent. In Tibet and Ladakh it is known as chánkú or shanko.
The Tibetan wolf is thought by some scientists to be the most likely ancestor of the domestic dog, on account of its small size and mandible morphology, noting that the uppermost part of the lower jaw is turned back on both the Tibetan wolf and the dog, though not so in other grey wolf subspecies.
The fur of the Tibetan wolf is fulvous, on the back longer, rigid and intermixed with black and grey hairs. Its throat, chest, belly and inside of the legs is pure white, its head pale grey-brown, and the forehead grizzled with short black and grey hairs. Its skull is very like the Eurasian wolf, but the legs are shorter.
Between 1847 and 1923, Tibetan wolves have been described under various scientific names from Chinese Tartary, Tibet, Kashmir, the Gobi Desert, and from near Seoul in Korea. Their distributional range extends from the Russian Pamir, Chinese Turkestan, Tien Shan, Mongolia and northern China.[10] Their range in China includes Shensi, Sichuan, and Yunnan. In the 20th century, wolves were not recorded on the southern slopes of the Himalayas in Nepal. (Source: Wikipedia)
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM.(Via WildFilmsIndia )
The Tibetan wolf is thought by some scientists to be the most likely ancestor of the domestic dog, on account of its small size and mandible morphology, noting that the uppermost part of the lower jaw is turned back on both the Tibetan wolf and the dog, though not so in other grey wolf subspecies.
The fur of the Tibetan wolf is fulvous, on the back longer, rigid and intermixed with black and grey hairs. Its throat, chest, belly and inside of the legs is pure white, its head pale grey-brown, and the forehead grizzled with short black and grey hairs. Its skull is very like the Eurasian wolf, but the legs are shorter.
Between 1847 and 1923, Tibetan wolves have been described under various scientific names from Chinese Tartary, Tibet, Kashmir, the Gobi Desert, and from near Seoul in Korea. Their distributional range extends from the Russian Pamir, Chinese Turkestan, Tien Shan, Mongolia and northern China.[10] Their range in China includes Shensi, Sichuan, and Yunnan. In the 20th century, wolves were not recorded on the southern slopes of the Himalayas in Nepal. (Source: Wikipedia)
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM.(Via WildFilmsIndia )
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Very awesome animal
BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL,THEY NEED TO BE SAVED,I LOVE WOLVES AND I DON'T LIKE WHAT I SEE,SO YES WE DO NEED TO SAVE THEM,THEY HAVE HERE AND AROUND US ALL FOR ALONG LONG TIME, UK
Nádherná zvířata. Miluji vlky, bolí mě srdce čím dál víc, když vidím, co lidé dělají těmto krásným zvířatům. STOP vraždění a ničení vlčí populace !!!!! Chraňme je ! Patří na tento svět stelně, jako každý jiný živý tvor !!!
Beautiful creature.I am a wolf lover.and every wolf should be saved instead of being murdered.Wolves have been roaming this earth when the Indians and the buffalo were free to roam.That was stopped to now the politicians want to destroy the wolves.why for financial gain, and prestige.It has nothing to do with trying to keep the ecosystem in balance.In destroying the wolves they are doing the opposite.Leave the wolves alone.they are like humans just trying to survive in this world.they work the same as us humans do to provide for their family to make sure they have food except theirs isn't manual. But to them it is just as hard.Put the wolves back on the endangered list before its to late and the next generations won't have chance to see this majestic creature and that would be a shame
I LOVE WOLF'S THAY ARE BEAUTIFUL CREATURE'S IM PART CHEROKEE I LOVE WILD LIFE AND MOTHER EARTH.
Very PRETTY, I LOVE all wolves ! ! ! !
Wolves are majestic, beautiful creatures that have every right to be here. Who are we humans to decide on what lives or dies? Every living thing on this earth is entitled to live, and I'm loathe to say, even diseases. Each entity, if left alone keeps the ecologically at an equilibrium.