CANADA
Northwest Territories / Nunavut / Yukon / British Columbia / Alberta / Saskatchewan / Manitoba / Ontario / Quebec / Labrador & Newfoundland / Nova Scotia
Ecoregions of Nunavut
Northern Canadian Shield taiga, Baffin coastal tundra, Davis Highlands tundra, High Arctic tundra, Low Arctic tundra, Middle Arctic tundra
Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) ᐊᒪᕈᖅ, amaruq)
Arctic Wolf (Canis lupus arctos)
Alaskan Tundra Wolf (Canis lupus tundrarum)
Great Plains Wolf (Canis lupus nubilus)
Hudson Bay Wolf (Canis lupus hudsonicus)
Population Statistics [Approximate; 5000-6000]
Legal Status; Game Species
Resources
Nunavut Department of Environment
Natural Resources Canada
Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI)
Nunavut Wolf Factt Sheet
Organizations
Nunavut / Canadian News Resources & Publications
CBC North Nunavut
Nunatsiaq Online (Nunavut)
LATEST NUNAVUT NEWS
LATEST CANADIAN NEWS
Wolf and Wildlife News from Nunavut
- “They Taste like Tuurngait”: Wolves and How Nunavut Elders See Them | Arctic Anthropology
06th Aug 2020
- Ottawa biologist meets wolf — at 1 a.m. in his tent | Ottawa Citizen
04th Aug 2017
Journal Articles
Newly Documented Behaviour of Free-Ranging Arctic Wolf Pups
LD Mech – ARCTIC, 2022
ABSTRACT
Whereas much is known about the behavior and development of captive young wolf (Canis lupus) pups, less detail has been published about some aspects of free-ranging wolf pup behavior. This article synthesizes 42 observations of free-ranging Arctic wolf pups from ages 13 through 52 days made during 10 summers from 1987 through 2006 on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Besides listing key behaviors such as howling and caching, I record unique observations of ages of pup urination without adult stimulation (22, 33, 42, 52 days), knowledge of which is important to studies of wolf domestication, and of a 48-day-old pup that traveled 39 km during a 12 h and 19 min round trip between the den and a prey carcass, including a 26.5 km trek in 5 h. These observations should lead to a deeper and more complete understanding of this critical period opup growth and development.
“They Taste like Tuurngait”: Wolves and How Nunavut Elders See Them. Laugrand F. Arctic Anthropology. 2020 Feb
Extinguishing a Learned Response in a Free-ranging Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) LD Mech – The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 2017
Gray wolf (Canis lupus) movements and behavior around a kill site and implications for GPS collar studies. Mech LD. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 2012 Aug
Movements of wolves at the northern extreme of the species’ range, including during four months of darkness. Mech LD, Cluff HD. PloS one. 2011 Oct
Foraging behaviours and diets of wolves in the Queen Maud Gulf Bird Sanctuary, Nunavut, Canada. Wiebe N, Samelius G, Alisauskas RT, Bantle JL, Bergman C, De Carle R, Hendrickson CJ, Lusignan A, Phipps KJ, Pitt J. Arctic. 2009 Nov
Movement patterns of barren-ground wolves in the central Canadian Arctic. Walton LR, Cluff HD, Paquet PC, Ramsay MA. Journal of Mammalogy. 2001 Aug
Leadership in Wolf, Canis lupus, Packs; LD Mech – 2000
Regurgitative food transfer among wild wolves; LD Mech, PC Wolf, JM Packard – Canadian Journal of …, 1999