Dang I guessed Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan but not the others. I'm not any expert, but I would have thought that Norway, Sweden, or Finland would have been on the list. Good quiz.
Wow at norway.... I just read the article where they planned to kill 48 of the total amount of 67 wolves that live in norway... crazy, are those last 20 symbolic or something, jsut so they could say but we didnt killt hem all?. Even more crazy, a year before that 11.000 hunters had been granted a license to kill 16 wolves.. ( so could be thousands more unlicensed hunters) so about 700 hunters per wolf!!
Correct. Sweden is currently in the midst of an absurd wolf hunt to exterminate 150 of only 300 wolves that exist here--in europe's 4th largest country that is mostly uninhabited, in direct violation of the EU protected species act.
Strictly speaking, "wolf" by itself refers to Canis Lupus, also known as the gray wolf. There are other members of Canis that have "wolf" in their names, like the Ethiopian wolf or the African golden wolf, but they're not quite the same thing.
I second this. This should be clarified in the caveats. There are several species of animal which are commonly called wolf. To make matters more complicated, whether or not certain types are subspecies of the gray wolf or separate species is debated. But, there are at least 3 different animals called wolves: the gray wolf, the African wolf, and the Ethiopian wolf. The red wolf, the eastern wolf, the Himalayan wolf, and the Indian wolf are either subspecies of the gray wolf or separate species.
Some surprises here. I thought for sure it would have included Romania, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, but it didn't. Very surprised about Turkey and Iran being on the list.
interesting quiz! Guessed Russia first and started assuming all of the countries where in Asia/northern hemisphere. Managed to get all with 54 seconds left, iran was probably the hardest to guess. Great quiz
I was quite surprise how on point my guesses were for this one. I just thought about climate, terrain, percentage of arable land and population. I did type a few Nordic countries initially.
The southern hemisphere is also not big on land. Only about 19% of the hemisphere is land, and nearly 30% of the land is Antarctica, and 18% Australia, both of which have no wolves.
Interesting that people mention denmark (over other candidates) since 10 years ago it had none (maybe that is why, here in the netherlands we didnt just to have any either, but last few years they are continuously in the news, because of some sightings, which is a big deal all of a sudden, so might make people think we are overrun with woves or something haha)
Why Denmark? It's a small and pretty urbanised country with few wilderness areas, unless you count Greenland, which is mostly ice sheet and thus not suitable for sustaining a large mammal population.
Interesting that Spain is on the list, but no other country between it and easternEurope/Russia. Do they have some unique subspecies there?
Ok, just googled it. according to wiki - "The Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus) also known as Spanish wolf, is a proposed subspecies of grey wolf that inhabits the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula . . ."
Did the Nordic countries kill all their wolves? The were my guesses after the obvious countries (Canada, US, Russia, China) yet non of them was correct.
Based on the answers, I see these wolves operate in the weird area where Kazakhstan almost borders Mongolia, but Russia and China border each other instead.
I love wolves and hope to see these numbers increase!
I could've used a bit more time for this quiz though - I got Spain and was halfway through typing Turkey as the time ran out... Missed Italy and Belarus, but would've got there with an extra 30 sec. Didn't feel like I was being particularly slow either!
I could be wrong but I don't think Greenland's ecology is suitable for a land mammal of that size.
There are musko ox in Greenland, therefore big mammals can live there. But I'm sure if wolves ever lived there.
Madness..
Ok, just googled it. according to wiki - "The Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus) also known as Spanish wolf, is a proposed subspecies of grey wolf that inhabits the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula . . ."
I could've used a bit more time for this quiz though - I got Spain and was halfway through typing Turkey as the time ran out... Missed Italy and Belarus, but would've got there with an extra 30 sec. Didn't feel like I was being particularly slow either!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_wolf