Wolf (Canis lupus)

[TheNormalGuy]

NUNAVUT WOLF MORPHOLOGY AND DIET STUDY

Julia Krizan

Wildlife Research Section, Department of Environment,

P.O. Box 209, Igloolik, NU X0A 0L0

2006 

---

Goal and objectives of the studies : Study skulls in every ways. 

Quote:In 1999, Wildlife Officers and Hunters and Trappers Associations (HTAs) across Nunavut were contacted and informed that the Department of Sustainable Development – Nunavut Wildlife Service (now: Department of the Environment –Nunavut Wildlife Management Division) is reimbursing hunters if they return skulls of harvested wolves. The requirement was that each specimen had to be labeled with: kill date, location, sex of animal and name of hunter. Labels and information material on the study were provided. Returned skulls were inventoried and kept frozen until processed.

228 skulls were recovered between 1999 and 2002.

---

There was also a part about the diet of the wolves, where these species were predated :

Arctic Fox
Arctic Ground Squirrel 
Arctic Hare
Caribou
Collared Lemming
Musk oxen
Red-Backed Vole

---

Link : NUNAVUT WOLF MORPHOLOGY AND DIET STUDY (2006)

---

For the skull lovers, they measured 54 aspects of the skull of a wolf. Page 11 of the link Reply