A Mexican Wolf’s Camouflaged Stroll at Cincinnati Zoo

Mexican wolves have a distinctive, richly colored coat of buff, gray, rust, and black, often with distinguishing facial pattern. Theses colors help them to blend into the mountain woodlands where they commonly live in the wild. They also make them harder to spot in the Midwest during Autumn as they blend in with the fallen leaves.
Mexican wolves are native to eastern and southeastern Arizona, western and southern New Mexico (in the United States), and fragmented areas of northern Mexico.
Mexican wolves are the smallest of North America’s gray wolves. They typically weigh 50-80 pounds, measure about 5½ feet from nose to tail, and stand 28 to 32 inches at the shoulder.
The Mexican wolf is critically endangered. Once held in high regard in Pre-Columbian Mexico, it was extirpated in the wild during the mid-1900s due to hunting, trapping, poisoning, and removal of pups from dens. Efforts to recover the population have involved collaboration between the United States and Mexico through Zoo programs like the ones at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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Mexican wolves have a distinctive, richly colored coat of buff, gray, rust, and black, often with distinguishing facial pattern. Theses colors help them to blend into the mountain woodlands where they commonly live in the wild. They also make them harder to spot in the Midwest during Autumn as they blend in with the fallen leaves.