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Colour variations per wolf species:

- Gray wolves (Canis lupus) can have coat colours or colour combinations ranging from black, grey, white (though never a “pure”, bright white as seen in domestic dogs), brown, blonde, “silver”, reddish/orange. The Gray wolf has a lot of subspecies, and each subspecies has it’s own variation in colour. Some can come in all colours named above, whereas other Gray wolf subspecies for example only come in white. 

If you want to know the coat colour possibilities of a certain Gray wolf subspecies, you can easily find that online.

Some colour possibilities in Gray wolves:

Entirely black [X]

Black and grey [X]

Different shades of grey [X]

Very light grey [X]

High contrast [X]

Little contrast [X]

Grey white black brown [X]

Brown/reddish with whites and blacks [X]

Brown and black with some greys [X]

Brown and black [X]

Light brownish/sandish [X]

Blonde/yellowish [X]

Silverish [X]

White [X]

White with some grey and/or black variations [X]

- Red wolves (Canis rufus) always have a combination of the colours orange/reddish, brown and grey, with black markings, along with some white parts and some black parts like in the tip of their tail:

[X]

- Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis) are orange with white, with some grey/brown and black markings:

[X]

All of the depicted coat colours above of course can have lots of variations - especially the darkness/brightness and contrast. No wolf looks the same. It’s very difficult to map out all the different possibilities, but this gives a good overview.

Last two wolves at Blijdorp Zoo the Netherlands passed away

July 13, 2017 - The male and female wolves were the last remaining wolves from the Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo pack. Both the wolves were 13 years old. The she-wolf had been ill for a while: her heart wasn’t functioning well. These heart problems caused a lot of fluid retention, which led to breathing problems. The zoo decided to put her down to redeem her from her suffering.

Even in his short time left, the sole remaining wolf was bound to get lonely without compagny. But introducing new wolves into the lone wolf’s enclosure wasn’t an option because of the wolf’s old age, so the zoo decided to put him down as well.

The wolf couple, who both were unnamed, had been a part of the zoo since the beginning. It is not yet known if new wolves will be introduced.

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This is such sad news to me. It must have been less than 1.5 years ago since I last visited them, and during my last visit there still were at least five of them. I never knew so many of them passed away so recently, nor that apparently they all were so old. 

The wolves at Wolf Park Indiana were given paint as a form of enrichment and as a fundraiser to make “original wolf art”. Most of the wolves were happy to step in the paint for a piece of hot dog and make nice paw prints on a page, but this guy decided rolling in it was way more fun.

Robot wolf pup

I was just in time to catch the wolf part of the ”making of” episode of Spy in the Wild for you guys! I didn’t even know about this programme until yesterday evening my dad texted me to turn on the television RIGHT NOW and I saw this.

It’s officially done, the kind of furry animation project that I’ve been wanting to do this for quite a long time, and I’ve finally done it.

It took me entirely 2 months to finish this whole thing, as everything of all these drawings of frames and animation are all entirely done and animated by myself.

So yep, the very first time I’ve made myself a fan-made Furry Anime Opening animation with the actual song that I’ve chose.