Hello everyone, welcome to the Encyclopedia of Animals. Today, let's take a look at the former king of the wolf tribe, but it is extinct: the Kenai Peninsula wolf.
The Kenai Peninsula wolf was once the largest animal of all the wolf families and canines in the world. It can reach 2.2 meters in total length, shoulder height to 1.1 meters, and weighs up to 105 kilograms (imagine what a giant guy standing in front of you). It weighs 10 kg more than the largest surviving wolf.
The coat of the Kenai Peninsula wolf is gray, slightly white and black, a little bit. The length of the limbs is inevitable, which is conducive to its walking and running speed. The sense of smell is very sensitive, and the sense of hearing is also developed. They can adapt to survive in many places. For example: forests, mountains, deserts, meadows, plains are all OK. They are good at running fast and long distances, like to live in groups, and are a carnivore. Sometimes dozens, sometimes hundreds of them together, besieging and preying, I estimate that such a big guy, so many numbers, any prey can not escape, right? And they are also quite fast, reaching speeds of up to 60 km/h.
Wolves in the Kenai Peninsula are mainly distributed in Arras, USA, and Gacacher Mark Bay at the southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula. There is no such animal in China. In the late 16th century, the British came to this peninsula called Kenai, and there were originally more than 30,000 of them, and less than 40 were left under the long-term expulsion of humans. In 1915, the Kenai Peninsula wolves became very, very rare, even fewer than the giant pandas are today! The last Kenai Peninsula wolf was killed in May 1915, and there was no trace of the Kenai Peninsula wolf since then, and 10 years later, in 1925, it was considered completely extinct.
Because it is long extinct, there are very few pictures of the kenai peninsula wolf, and we can only get a glimpse of what it looked like, once the largest wolf in the world. This issue of the Encyclopedia of Animals is here, see you in the next issue.