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Baby Korean wolves are shown at the Daejeon O-World Zoo in Daejeon yesterday. A total of eight baby wolves, which the zoo showed to the public for the first time yesterday, were born of seven Korean wolves (three females and four males), which were captured in Russia in 2008. Korean wolves had disappeared from the Korean Peninsula in the 1980s, but some were known to take shelter in Russia and China. By Kim Seong-tae
Via the Joong Ang Ilbo.
3:05 pm on July 8th, 2011 1
I WANT ONE!!!!!
3:17 pm on July 8th, 2011 2
me too. i take wolf over a dog any day
3:30 pm on July 8th, 2011 3
So cute. Please don’t eat them.
3:39 pm on July 8th, 2011 4
Some moron will decide they should be pink or green
10:23 pm on July 8th, 2011 5
Q: What do you see at an animal park with only one dog?
A: a shih tzu
10:36 pm on July 8th, 2011 6
It is not a recognized subspecies. Eurasian wolves probably.
3:16 am on July 9th, 2011 7
We have always been at war with Eurasian wolves.
/turn them loose in the DMZ
3:18 am on July 9th, 2011 8
Maybe a Tibetan wolf (Canis lupus chanco).
6:48 am on July 9th, 2011 9
They’re so adorable!
But something tells me that when they grow up, if you have more than one of those in your home, you’re no longer the one in charge…
8:15 am on July 9th, 2011 10
They look like CZECHOSLOVAKIAN VLCAK (Czech Wolfdogs). I’ve got a friend that just imported one to be an all-purpose/all-sport athlete (agility, rally, dock diving, Schutzhund/French Ring/Mondo). The breed looks wolfy, but there is no longer any discernible (Carpathian)wolf content.
5:48 pm on July 9th, 2011 11
#8,
The colour is wrong. Tibetan wolves don’t have a coat that dark in the summer. The legs also suggest that these cubs will grow up to be rather tall. Tibetan wolves are short.
#9,
I compared both these cubs and with the pictures of Czech Vlcak cubs and although they do look very similar, there are some differences (legs, width of forehead and shoulders). But, since the Vlcak are a hybrid of German shepherds and Eurasian wolves, that’s to be expected. I’d said the resemblance only adds weight to my argument that these are indeed Eurasian wolves.
6:04 pm on July 9th, 2011 12
#11 They may grow differently I do not know. I have certainly had dogs whose entire color changed as they grew.
Attacks on humans in the early 1900′s were attributed to Tibetan wolves so it seemed a logical assumption, especially considering as previously stated – there is recognized subspecies as “Korea wolves”.
So what are they?
5:25 am on July 10th, 2011 13
#12,
39 recognized subspecies, none of which are “Korean wolves”.
3:40 am on July 12th, 2011 14
13 Exactly, so are they possibly Tibetan Wolves? Or were there more than one species of wolf left in Korea during the early 1900′s?