Oman

“Given the large number of disused wolf traps in the northern mountains, the grey wolf (Figure 2) must have been considerably more common in the past. There were 17 sightings or track records of groups of one to five wolves (most singly) during 1991-1997 in the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in central Oman (Arabian Oryx Project records), and photo-trap records from southern Oman show it occurs on the south and east sides of Jabal Samhan (Spalton and Willis 1999) and in Jabal Qamar (Andrew Spalton, unpublished records). Scats and very rare sightings (Andrew Spalton, unpublished records) indicate that it still occurs in the Hajar mountains of northern Oman but it is likely to be more common in southern Oman than elsewhere. Little is known of its life history in Oman.”