My question this time is, What species of wolves were indegineous to England, Scotland, Ireland?
From what I can find, they are pretty much extinct there now, but it would be useful to my story to know which species once took up that area. Also, if you have a rough idea of when they became scarce. I’ve found some very conflicting information on that spanning anywhere from 200-800 years ago. Thank you again. Robin Answer – Dear Robin Thanks for your follow-up question and for your kind comments about my answers to your earlier question. The British wolf was the same species as the grey wolf i.e. Canis lupus. It belonged to the European wolf subspecies (Canis lupus lupus ). As you state, the information is very confused, with last reports covering several centuries. The most detailed website is http://www.wolfsongalaska.org/disappearance_of_wolves.html and if I had to choose a site to give a definitive answer to your question, it would be this one. This should give you a lot of useful information for your work. It is very hard to determine when animals became scarce, as wolves were