Canis lupus
Canis lupus noun - A wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America.
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Gray wolf and Canis lupus are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Gray wolf" instead a noun phrase "Canis lupus".
Gray wolf
Gray wolf noun - A wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America.
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Canis lupus and gray wolf are semantically related. You can use "Canis lupus" instead a noun phrase "Gray wolf".
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- Dogs, Canis lupus familiaris, are a single subspecies of the gray wolf, Canis lupus, but have far greater physical differences from each other than any two species of the Canis genus.
Source: Only 0.2% Different - The scientific name for the gray wolf, canis lupus
Source: Werewolf Theme Naming - Not surprisingly perhaps, since according to genetic analysis the gray wolf Canis lupus was the not only the ancestor of the modern dog but the very first animal Mankind domesticated, long before we domesticated species such as sheep or goats.
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