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Iran at a glance
Main prey for wolves here are gazelle, deer, wild boar, mountain sheep and livestock.
The Endangered Wolf Center shares this information on their website:
“The Iranian wolf prominently featured in popular literature such as Rudyard Kipling’s, The Jungle Book, once ranged from the Middle East across Asia. This beautiful and unique animal is also referred to as the Indian or Asiatic wolf.
A subspecies of the gray wolf, the Iranian is smaller than its counterparts in Northern Europe and America. Standing 18 to 30 inches tall at the shoulder, Iranian wolves weigh between 55 to 70 pounds.”
Species Information
Species
Common Name: gray wolf
Latin Name: Canis lupus
Subspecies 1
Common Name: desert wolf
Latin Name: Canis lupus pallipes
Subspecies 2
Common Name:
Latin Name: Canis lupus cubanensis
Current Wolf Population, Trend, Status
Number of wolves: More than 1,000
Population trend: Unknown
Legal protection: The wolf is a game species
Most recent wolf data available: 2007
Research and more information
- Endangered Wolf Center page on Iranian wolves
- Contrasting use of habitat, landscape elements and corridors by grey wolf and golden jackal in central Iran
- Detecting hybridization between Iranian wolf and free-ranging domestic dog by analysis of microsatellite markers
- Predation by grey wolf on wild ungulates and livestock in central Iran
- Characteristics of gray wolf attacks on humans in an altered landscape in the west of Iran
