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tundra wolf
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a large wolf, Canis lupus tundrarum, of the Arctic.
See: Arctic wolf
Quotations
1958
The council was told a wolf-killing program to help boost flagging caribou herds had accounted for about 5,000 tundra wolves in five years.
1965
The whiter tundra wolves have obviously adapted to Arctic conditions. They are imposing beasts, long-legged, broad-footed, and deep-chested, and carry a heavy coat of long creamy white or pure white fur.