The White Wolf-Arctic Wolf

The White Wolf, also known as the Arctic Wolf originated on the Canadian Arctic Islands and in north and east Greenland, hence their name. The Arctic wolf is distinguished from the northwetern wolf by its smaller size, its whiter coloration and its narrower braincase. Since 1930, there has been a progressive reduction in size of Arctic wolf skulls, which is likely the result of wolf-dog hybridization. When studied in east Greenland between 1899 and 1939, the average pack size of the Arctic wolf was 3, packs of 4 or more was rare. There were 252 sightings of the wolves and/or their tracks. The Arctic wolf population was mainly in the central range, which made them vulnerable to the Danish and Norwegian hunters, which exterminated the population with the use of poison in the 1930's. They were mainly killed and exterminated due to interfering with commercial hunting of Arctic foxes. The Arctic wolf population was considered absent for over 40 years.

In April 1978, a wolf pair was spotted in eastern north Greenland, followed by several other wolves over the next four years. They began to repopulate in the area and successfully established a new population of wolves.

In 1997, there was a decline in the Arctic wolf population and its prey; the muskoxen and Arctic hare. This was due to harmful weather conditions in the summers over the next four years. The recovery of the Arctic wolf population came when summer weather conditions returned to normal.

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