Japanese Wolf - Recently Extinct Animals

Did you know that Japan had two species of wolves? Sadly, you won’t find them there anymore. Today we remember the Honshū wolf. How they lived, and how their own worshippers turned against them.
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On my Spring 2023 visit to Tokyo, I visited the Ueno Museum of Nature and Science got to see the extinct Japanese wolf, taxidermy-styled. It was indeed small and very un-wolflike.

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The Japanese Wolf (Canis hodophilax) is a recently extinct dog species that lived in Japan, it has two recognized subspecies: the †Ezo Wolf (Canis hodophilax hattai) and the †Honshu Wolf (Canis hodophilax hodophilax).

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The japan hunters used to hunt them for thinking they could lead to rabbits extinction to the invasion