Juvenile Eastern Wolf
After seeing all of those wonderful recent images of mature Bull Moose in Algonquin Park I decided to take a quick day trip to the park to try my luck. I have other photos of Bull moose but none of mature Bulls during the rut. Unfortunately I did not see any Bulls at all but I did see 3 cows along the highyway 60 corridor.
Despite not seeing any male moose I did come across an animal that I have been hoping to see and photograph in the park for several years. I came across a juvenile Eastern (Algonquin) Wolf ("Canis lycaon"}. This animal was small and rather thin but appeared to have no injuries except a small cut on its cheek.
There is still a lot of debate about whether or not the Eastern Wolf is a separate species, a conspecific with the Red Wolf of the Souteastern U.S. or, a hybrid between the Gray Wolf and Coyotes. Whatever the final scientific upcome is it was still exciting to photograph.
Uncropped image.
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Juvenile Eastern Wolf
After seeing all of those wonderful recent images of mature Bull Moose in Algonquin Park I decided to take a quick day trip to the park to try my luck. I have other photos of Bull moose but none of mature Bulls during the rut. Unfortunately I did not see any Bulls at all but I did see 3 cows along the highyway 60 corridor.
Despite not seeing any male moose I did come across an animal that I have been hoping to see and photograph in the park for several years. I came across a juvenile Eastern (Algonquin) Wolf ("Canis lycaon"}. This animal was small and rather thin but appeared to have no injuries except a small cut on its cheek.
There is still a lot of debate about whether or not the Eastern Wolf is a separate species, a conspecific with the Red Wolf of the Souteastern U.S. or, a hybrid between the Gray Wolf and Coyotes. Whatever the final scientific upcome is it was still exciting to photograph.
Uncropped image.
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