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
“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