ARCTIC The Wolf (Canis lupus) in Greenland: A Historical Review and Present Status

• Main Authors: Peter R. Dawes, Magnus Elander, Mats Ericson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1985
• Subjects: Key words; wolf; Canis lupus; Greenland; history; distribution; migration; re-establishment; High Arctic; Arctic; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Peary; Peary Land; Scoresby; Scoresby Sund; Sund; East Greenland; North Greenland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.557.9696; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic39-2-119.pdf

ABSTRACT. In the past few decades, little information on the wolf (Canis lupus) in Greenland has been published. The decline of the species and its extirpation in the late 1930s from East Greenland is well documented. Since then, there has been a tendency for wolves sighted in the North and East Gre...