Japanese Wolf

The Japanese Wolf were native to Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu Islands but not Hokkaido Island. They were meat eaters who usually ate prey larger than them such as the deer. They used to also hunt rodents.

They are extinct. They are extinct due to rabies, loss of habitat and eradication by ranchers.

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The Japanese wolf inhabited Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu Islands but not Hokkaido Island. The remains of a 28,000-year-old wolf specimen from the Yana River on the northern coast of arctic Siberia matched the DNA haplotype of the Japanese wolf, which indicates that they shared common ancestry and a wider distribution.

Trivia

 * They were praised by farmers because they are rodents who made the farmers crop’s go bad.
 * They went extinct in 1905.
 * They ate bigger animals, unlike the size of the Japanese Wolf.
 * It is considered a Wolf Legend.