This is a list of famous individual
wolves, pairs of wolves, or wolf
packs. For a list of wolf subspecies, see
Subspecies of Canis lupus
There are 38 subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' listed in the taxonomic authority '' Mammal Species of the World'' (2005, 3rd edition). These subspecies were named over the past 250 years, and since their naming, a number of them have gone extinct. ...
. For a list of all species in the
Canidae family, several of which are named "wolves", see
list of canids.
Living wolves
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Slavc
Slavc (, diminutive of ''Slavko'') is a male wolf whose migration was being electronically tracked by the University of Ljubljana's Biology department between July 2011 and August 2012, through usage of a GPS-GSM wildlife collar. The wolf was bei ...
Other wolves
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Custer Wolf
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Hexham wolf
The Hexham wolf (also called the Allendale wolf or the Wolf of Allendale) was a grey wolf that escaped from a zoo and killed livestock in Hexham and Allendale, Northumberland during the winter of 1904. Conflicting reports label it as being eith ...
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Lobo the King of Currumpaw
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Romeo
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Three Toes of Harding County
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Tiger of Sabrodt
Tiger of Sabrodt (german: Tiger von Sabrodt) is the name given to a wolf shot in Lusatia in 1904; the last free-living wolf to be shot within the current borders of Germany prior to 1945.
The wolf was shot near the town of Hoyerswerda (then part o ...
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Wolf of Ansbach
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OR-7 (also known as "Journey")
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302M (also known as "The Casanova")
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926F (Spitfire) - Daughter of O-Six
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O-Six O-Six (2006–2012), also known as 832F or "The 06 Female", was a female gray wolf, whose death by hunting just outside the protected area of Yellowstone National Park stirred debate about the hunting and protection of wolves in Wyoming, Montana and ...
(also known as "The 06 Female" or 832F
er research ID
In folklore and mythology
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Amarok
Amarok may refer to:
Music
* Amarok (band), a Spanish progressive rock band
* ''Amarok'' (Mike Oldfield album), 1990
* ''Amarok'' (Nargaroth album), 2000
* ''Amarok'', 2010 album by Francisco López (musician)
Other uses
* Amarok (wolf), in In ...
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Asena
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Fenrir
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Garmr (different sources call Garmr either a wolf or a dog)
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Geri and Freki
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Hati Hróðvitnisson
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Lupa
Lupa may refer to:
Places
* Lupa Ward Ward in Chunya, Mbeya, Tanzania
* Lupa Gold Field, in Chunya, Mbeya, Tanzania
* Lupa Island (Hungary)
* Lupa Zoo, Ludlow, Massachusetts, United States
* Mount Lupa, Antarctica
Other
* Auguste Lupa, a fictio ...
, the
she-wolf that nursed
Romulus and Remus
In Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus (, ) are twin brothers whose story tells of the events that led to the founding of the city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom by Romulus, following his fratricide of Remus. The image of a she-wolf suckling the ...
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Sköll
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Warg
In the philologist and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction, a warg is a particularly large and evil kind of wolf that could be ridden by orcs. He derived the name and characteristics of his wargs by combining meanings and myth ...
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Werewolf
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Wepwawet
Fictional wolves
{{main, List of fictional wolves
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Akela
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Big Bad Wolf
The Big Bad Wolf is a fictional wolf appearing in several cautionary tales that include some of ''Grimms' Fairy Tales.'' Versions of this character have appeared in numerous works, and it has become a generic archetype of a menacing predatory a ...
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Bigby Wolf
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Gmork
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Maugrim
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Raksha
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White Fang
''White Fang'' is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in ''Outing'' magazine between May and October 1906, it was published in book form in Oct ...
See also
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Wolf (disambiguation)
The wolf is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.
Wolf or wolves may also refer to:
Animals
Other canids and carnivores known as wolves include:
* African golden wolf, ''Canis anthus''
* Armbruster's wolf, ''Canis armbrusteri'', ex ...
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Wolves in fiction
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List of gray wolf populations by country
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Werewolf fiction
Werewolf fiction denotes the portrayal of werewolves and other shapeshifting therianthropes, in the media of literature, drama, film, games and music. Werewolf literature includes folklore, legend, saga, fairy tales, Gothic and horror fiction, ...
Wolves
The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...