The Mexican Gray Wolf:
The Mexican Gray Wolf (Canis lupus spp. baileyi), also known as the Lobo, is a subspecies of gray wolf once native to southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, western Texas, and northern Mexico. It is the smallest of North America's gray wolves. The Mexican wolf is the rarest subspecies of gray wolf in North America; it was all but eliminated from the wild by the 1970s. In 1977, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initiated efforts to conserve the species. In 1998, Mexican wolves were released to the wild for the first time in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area within the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area. This male is part of a couple cared for by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, located at 2021 N Kinney Road, in Tucson, Arizona.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery, founded in 1952. It features two miles of walking paths traversing 21 acres of desert landscape; which reflects the diverse flora and fauna of the Sonoran Desert. It features wildlife such as coyotes, bears, mountain lion, and deer in their natural habitat.
