What is Great Plains wolf?
{{Subspeciesbox|name=Great Plains wolf|image=Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes (Plate III) C. l. nubilus mod.jpg|image_caption=Illustration based on a description by [[Edward Alphonso Goldman]]|status=EX|extinct=1926|genus=Canis|species_link=Gray wolf|species=lupus|subspecies=nubilus|authority=[[Thomas Say|Say]], 1823<ref name=say1823>Say, T. et al. (1823) ''[https://archive.org/stream/accountofexpedit01jame#page/168/mode/2up Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and '20 : by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, sec'y of war: under the command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party]''. Philadelphia : H.C. Carey and I. Lea ... p. 169-173.</ref>|range_map=North American gray wolf subspecies distribution according to Goldman (1944) & MSW3 (2005).png|range_map_caption=Historical and present range of [[Subspecies of Canis lupus|gray wolf subspecies]] in North America|synonyms=<small>* ''variabilis'' ([[Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied|Wied-Neuwied]], 1841)</small><ref name=wied1841>{{cite book|author=Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied|author-link=Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied|title=Reise in das innere Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 |publisher=Coblenz|volume=2|year=1841|pages=95|url=https://archive.org/stream/reiseindasinnere21841wied#page/94/mode/2up}}[Trip to the interior of North America 1832 to 1834]</ref>|synonyms_ref=<ref name=wozencraft2005>{{MSW3 Wozencraft|id=14000751|pages=575–577}} url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JgAMbNSt8ikC&pg=PA576</ref>}} The '''Great Plains wolf''' (''Canis lupus nubilus'') is an [[Extinction|extinct]] [[subspecies]] of [[Wolf|grey wolf]]. It is also called the '''buffalo wolf''' or '''loafer'''. It once lived in the [[Great Plains]]. The subspecies was declared extinct in 1926.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/162522245|title=The Wolf Almanac : a celebration of wolves and their world|last=Busch|first=Robert H.|date=2007|publisher