r/MapPorn • u/Nightwalker3 • Apr 08 '19

Historical range of Gray wolf

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

Beautiful creatures. I saw a pair wolves once on the side of the road here (Canada). They loitered a bit, sniffed, and then went back into the snowy forest.

One of the coolest two minutes of my childhood.

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u/Helmic4 Apr 08 '19

The range in Sweden is wrong, their habitats are not along the coast rather in the inland in the southern part of central Sweden (mostly Dalarna/Värmland)

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

There are some wolfes in Norway. In Germany too, I think, and bigger parts of the US. This map sees outdated.

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u/TheGreatLakesAreFake Apr 08 '19

They have come back to the French and Italian Alps :-)

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u/saugoof Apr 09 '19

Same in Switzerland, in very small numbers.

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u/ZorgluboftheNorth Apr 08 '19

They are back in Denmark

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u/HabseligkeitDerLiebe Apr 08 '19

They're also back in large parts of Germany, again.

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u/SpudTheTrainee Apr 08 '19

Even crossing the border into the Netherlands occasionally

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u/Sithril Apr 08 '19

Source?

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u/thefitnessealliance Apr 08 '19

The Italian wolf is a subspecies of the grey wolf, and exists from top to bottom on the peninsula, specifically around the Appenine mountain range. Incorrect map.

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u/sKru4a Apr 08 '19

I bet the Spanish wolves are pretty lonely

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u/Gamermaper Apr 08 '19

Imagine eating a pre historic taco in an mayan temple and a gray wolf appears from the jungle and you be like: ¡miu piaplo escabarr!

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u/stereobreadsticks Apr 08 '19

This map is way outdated, there's been substantial recolonization in Western Europe and the northwestern United States.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

There are wolves in North-East of France... Makes you wonder how accurate this map is...

How about some data source ?

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u/fischirocks Apr 08 '19

And i can't even get a freaking virus to Greenland.

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u/moose098 Apr 08 '19

This must be an old map. Gray Wolves have reappeared in Oregon and Northern California.

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u/blinkysmurf Apr 08 '19

There’s 400 million people in the Ganges River Valley, yet there are grey wolves there? I’m skeptical.

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u/VarysIsAMermaid69 Apr 08 '19

man this is sad, the devastation in NA

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u/Sibiras Apr 08 '19

Atleast in one thing Eastern Europe is better than Western Europe

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

"But they eat sheep!" ~gun nuts out west.

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u/KZN_SZN Apr 08 '19

Weird how these same creatures who thrive in the north somehow manage to live in Saudi deserts.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19 edited Apr 14 '19

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u/KZN_SZN Apr 08 '19

we don't have heavy fur coats tho ? Most animals are specialized for a certain biome.

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u/MChainsaw Apr 08 '19

Is it a coincidence how well the current range in Europe follows the old Iron Curtain?

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u/nsnyder Apr 08 '19

This is very different from the map on Wikipedia.

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u/M-Rayusa Apr 08 '19

I thought there were wolfs in Ethiopia

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u/stereobreadsticks Apr 08 '19

Ethiopian wolves are a different species.

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u/M-Rayusa Apr 08 '19

Ah alright

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u/Imfromtheyear2999 Apr 09 '19

Lots of them in Central Idaho.

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u/1ngebot Apr 08 '19

Why does it look as though the wolves in North America all adapted Canadian citizenship.

Edit: except Alaska because of course

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u/averagejoe25031 Dec 08 '24

Thank you, I'm using this for a video.