Mexican Gray Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi)

The Mexican Gray Wolf is the rarest subspecies of the gray wolf. It roamed
the mountains of Northern Mexico, southern portions of Arizona, New Mexico
and Texas. In 1976 the last wild wolf known was killed in New Mexico, El Lobo
as the Mexicans called them was by all practical knowledge, extinct in the U.S.
Still in 1980 a trapper caught two pregnant females in Mexico, they were sent
to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson and the St. Louis Zoo. In 1981
it was estimated the wolf population in Mexico was now less than fifty in the wild.
Since then a well managed breeding program has established a small but growing
population of these animals. Their goal is to have 240 animals in captivity and
100 in the wild. They now have 172 wolves in captivity of which 28 pairs are
awaiting release.

Mexican Gray Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi)

Wolf facts:

In the last 150 years their has not been a documented attack on
a human by a wolf.

The only state that allows the trapping of wolves is Alaska, where
the wolf is not listed as endangered.

The wolf has been exterminated from 95 percent of its former
range in the lower United States.

Wolves can hear as far as six miles away in the forest and ten
miles away in the open.

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