What is Hokkaido Wolf?
{{Subspeciesbox | name = ''Canis lupus hattai'' | image = Yezo_wolf_at_Hokkaido_University.jpg| | image_caption = Taxidermied Ezo wolf at Hokkaido University Museum | status = EX | status_system = IUCN3.1 | extinct = 1889 | genus = Canis | species = lupus | species_link = Gray wolf | subspecies = hattai | authority = [[Kyukichi Kishida|Kishida]], 1931<ref>Kishida K (1931) Notes on the Yesso wolf, Lansania 3: 72–75</ref> | synonyms = *<small> ''C. l. rex'' (Pocock, 1935)<ref>Pocock, R.I. The races of Canis lupus. Proc. Zool. Soc. London for 1935, pt. 3, pp. 647-686, pIs. 2. September 12, 1935. (New: Canis lupus rex, C. i. arctos, C. I. orion.) DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1935.tb01687.x</ref></small> | range_map = Sea of Okhotsk map with state labels.png | range_map_caption = Range included [[Hokkaido]] and [[Sakhalin]] islands, the [[Kamchatka peninsula]], and [[Iturup]] and [[Kunashir Island|Kunashir]] islands just to the east of Hokkaido in the [[Kuril islands|Kuril archipelago]]. }} The '''Hokkaido wolf''' ''(Canis lupus hattai)'' is a subspecies of [[wolf|Gray Wolf]]. [[science|Scientists]] believe it became extinct in [[1889]]. There are people who said to have seen some Hokkaido wolves after that year, but there is no [[proof]] that they actually did. In the [[Meiji Restoration]] in [[Japan]], Japanese [[agriculture|farmers]] wanted to have [[USA|American]]-[[style]] [[ranch]]es for raising [[livestock]]. A US farmer named Edwin Dun started to [[import]] livestock to Japan. When the wolves began attacking the livestock, the farmers started to kill them, by using [[poison]]. ==Related pages== * [[Werewolf]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Wolves]]