Arabian wolf
canis lupus arabs latin

Arabian wolves will attack and eat any domestic animals up to the size of a goat.

Arabian wolves have short, thin fur in summer, though the hair on their back remains long even in summer.

Their natural predators include humans, cheetahs, leopards, Arabian wolves, and lions.

Also, Arabian wolves do not usually live in large packs, and instead hunt in pairs or in groups of about three to four animals.

Arabian wolves also feed on hares, rodents, ungulates, and any carrion they can find.

The Arabian wolf (Canis lupus arabs) is a subspecies of grey wolf.

There are almost 40 subspecies including Arctic, tundra and Arabian wolves, domestic dogs and the dingo.

In their western range, Indian wolves can be distinguished from Arabian wolves by their larger size, darker fur, and proportionately larger heads.

Arabian wolves are unique among grey wolves due to the middle two toes of their paws being fused, a trait originally thought unique to the African wild dog.

Other species found here include the largest wild population of the endangered Arabian gazelle, as well as Nubian ibex, Arabian wolves, honey badgers, and caracals.

Some authors suppose that the animals were individuals of the Arabian wolf, an isolated form of the Egyptian jackal, or a totally new species related to both of them.

Arabian wolves will hunt small to medium sized animals such as cape hares, Dorcas Gazelles and ibexes, though they will feed on carrion and livestock when in the vicinity of human settlements.

Dingoes may have evolved in the northern areas of Thailand and Vietnam between five and six thousand years ago from south Asian wolves quite similar to the Indian Wolf and the Arabian Wolf.

Endangered species include Socotra shag or cormorant, Bengal tiger, gorilla, subspecies of grey wolf and Arabian wolf, Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), and the indigenous Gordon's wildcat.

Predators found on the coast include caracals, Arabian wolf, striped hyaena and the critically endangered Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr), which survives on Jebel Samhan in the Dhofar mountains.

Natural predators of the Persian fallow deer include the Golden jackal, the Arabian wolf, the Caracal, the Striped hyena, and the Syrian brown bear; however, the primary predation pressure on the Persian fallow deer is human poaching.

The Arabian wolf is a small, desert adapted wolf that stands at around 26 inches shoulder height and weighs an average of 40 pounds Their ears are proportionally larger in relation to body size when compared to other species, an adaptation needed to disperse body heat.

According to skull morphology, these fossils occupy a place between Asian wolves (prime candidates were the pale footed (or Indian) wolf Canis lupus pallipes and the Arabian wolf Canis lupus Arabs) and modern dingoes in Australia and Thailand.

According to skull morphology, these fossils occupy a place between Asian wolves (prime candidates were the pale footed (or Indian) wolf Canis lupus pallipes and the Arabian wolf Canis lupus Arabs) and modern dingoes in Australia and Thailand.