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There aren’t many canids in the Far East, and so we’ll be howling with the wolves for the rest of April. I decided to boost this post first because these subspecies definitely were around until recently, and as I said in 2023 —

I like this man’s approach.

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More information:

• Japanese Wikipedia (autotranslated): Article includes a discussion of the chances for the wolf’s survival.
• Science weighs in (emphasis added): “Two lineages of wolves in Japan, namely, Japanese or Honshu (C. l. hodophilax) and Ezo or Hokkaido (C. l. hattai) wolves, rapidly went extinct between 100 and 120 years ago. Here we analyse…”
• Japan Times: “In the shadow of Fukushima…”

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Sound Effect from Pixabay

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