Baffin Island Wolves Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 Wild March

Summary: Baffin Island wolves are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 Wild March animals who await National Audubon Society attention in Arctic, near-Arctic America.

Baffin Island wolves abide in Katannilik Territorial Park Reserve (from Inuktitut for "place of waterfalls"). They abound in the 487.26-square-mile (1,262-square-kilometer) reserve. The territorial park absorbs, since 1993, the former caribou and ptarmigan hunting grounds of the Kimmirut Inuit community; Thursday, April 13, 2017, 15:23, image of northward view of large rocky outcrop in center of frozen lake, in Kimmirut, Katannilik Territorial Park, Qikiqtaaluk Region, also known as Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ) or Baffin Region, easternmost, southernmost and northernmost Nunavut: Jeffrey Fink, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Baffin Island wolves are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 Wild March animals who as Baffin Island abiders and as endangered wild animals await National Audubon Society attention in Arctic and near-Arctic America.

The National Audubon Society bases wild March on Baffin Island, whose name bespeaks William Baffin (1584?-Jan. 23, 1622), the archipelagic Canada-west Greenland bay’s first European discoverer. Baffin Island, called Qikiqtaaluk (from Inuktitut qikiqtaq aluk “island very big”) in northern Canada’s Nunavut Territory (from Inuktitut nuna -vut, “land our”), contains two wolf subspecies. Archipelagic Canada domiciles Arctic and Baffin Island wolves, respectively described by Reginald Pocock (March 4, 1863-Aug. 9, 1947) and Rudolph Anderson (June 30, 1876-June 21, 1961).

The two subspecies existed historically where the respective Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Baffin Island endemics (from Greek ἐν δῆμος, “at [one’s] people”) still endure extreme weather.

Rudolph Martin Anderson (June 30, 1876-June 21, 1961) actualized in 1943 the Baffin Island wolf subspecies of gray wolves; March 2018 Historical and Present Distributions Map of North American grey wolf subspecies, based upon range map in Edward A. Goldman, The Wolves of North America, vol. II (1944), with most still recognized by Mammal Species of the World, third edition (MSW3; 2005) but without subspecies historically recognized as Canis rufus and with extinct Canis lupus alces as blank due to color mystery of missing pelts and with modified illustrations from St. George Jackson Mivart's Dogs, Jackals, Wolves and Foxes (1890): Mariomassone, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Chordata (from Greek χορδή, “tripe” via Latin chorda, “[proto-spinal] cord”) phylum's Baffin Island member features lighter colors, shapes and sizes than gray wolves (Canis lupus).

The Mammalia (from Latin mamma -ālia, “breast’s”) class's land- and water-going Baffin Islander never gets the mottled black, brown, gray, white fur that gray wolves grow. The Carnivora (from Latin carō vorō, “meat I devour”) order member headed eastward as Greenland wolf (Canis lupus orion [Latin-English translation “dog wolf heaven’s light”) ancestor. The Canidae (from Latin canis, “dog” and Greek -ειδής, “-like” via Latin -idæ) family member invests 2 years in parenting March-July-bred, 60-day-gestated, 1- to 10-pup litters.

The Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 jubilates wild March with Baffin Island wolves, who journeyed by Baffin Bay sea waters to coastal northeastern and northwestern Greenland.

Baffin Island admits such iconic, signature wildlife as Arctic hares, barren-ground caribou, ground squirrels, lemmings, mice, moose and mountain sheep. Such wildlife allows Baffin Island wolves their protein diets; Nov. 2, 2016, image of Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, eastern Nunavut, northern Canada: Jennifer Latuperisa-Andresen fraumuksch, Public Domain (CC0 1.0), via Wikimedia Commons

May and June birthings kindle the monogamously-mated parents and the whole 6- to 8-, 8-plus-member pack keeping the newborn Baffin Island wolves alive with regurgitated food.

Blind pups log vision as 14-day-olds; crawling as 16- to 17-, 17-plus-year-olds; dusk, night and early-morning pack-hunting as 3-month-olds; and physical and sexual maturity as 2-year-olds. Canis lupus manningi (for Thomas Henry Manning, Dec. 22, 1911-Nov. 8, 1998) genus, species, subspecies members maintain couple and single hunting and established, mature male-monitored territories. Arctic hares, ground squirrels, mice and spawning salmon nourish Baffin Island wolves, named barren-ground wolves and loup de la terre Baffin (“wolf of the land Baffin”).

Baffin Island wolves occupy Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 space as wild March occurrences with bears, caribou, foxes, hares and beluga, bowhead, narwhal and orca whales.

Baffin Island wolves ambled taxonomically as gray wolves (Canis lupus, "dog wolf") since 1758. Rudolph Martin Anderson (June 30, 1876-June 21, 1961) announced in 1943 their renaming as Canis lupus manningi, "dog wolf Manning's") for Thomas Henry Manning (Dec. 22, 1911-Nov. 8, 1998); still image of grey wolf (Canis lupus) by Gary Kramer/USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service): Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library

Barren-ground and Baffin Island tundra wolves present less petite profiles with elongated-hair ruffs along both sides of their faces and furry, light- to white-colored, thick coats.

Barren-ground wolves, Baffin Island tundra wolves and Baffin Island wolves quarter 3.5-foot- (1.07-meter-) long, 30- to 50-pound (13.61- to 22.68-kilogram) bodies on central-pad, four-toed, long-legged feet. They realize 42-tooth dental formulas of 12 incisors, 4 canines, 16 premolars and 10 molars and 2- to 3.5-foot (0.61- to 1.07-meter) foot to shoulder heights. Baffin Island, Bylot Island, Nunavut and surrounding islands from Hudson Strait to Pond Inlet in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago biogeographically and historically sheltered Baffin Island wolves.

Climate change and human activity trigger drought, severe weather and truncated habitats for Baffin Island wolves whom Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 thanks for wild March.

Reginald Innes Pocock (March 4, 1863-Aug. 9, 1947) appreciated the Baffin Island ancestry of Greenland wolves. Greenland wolves thereby availed themselves of the successor name Canis lupus orion ("dog wolf heaven's light") in 1935 to Carl Linnaeus' (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) gray-wolfed Canis lupus of 1758; image of Greenland wolf as draught animal in Stanley P. Young and Edward A. Goldman, The Wolves of North America, vol. I (1944): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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Baffin Island wolves abide in Katannilik Territorial Park Reserve (from Inuktitut for "place of waterfalls"). They abound in the 487.26-square-mile (1,262-square-kilometer) reserve. The territorial parks absorbs, since 1993, the former caribou and ptarmigan hunting grounds of the Kimmirut Inuit community; Thursday, April 13, 2017, 15:23, image of northward view of large rocky outcrop in center of frozen lake, in Kimmirut, Katannilik Territorial Park, Qikiqtaaluk Region, also known as Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ) or Baffin Region, easternmost, southernmost and northernmost Nunavut: Jeffrey Fink, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entering_Katannilik_Territorial_Park.jpg

Rudolph Martin Anderson (June 30, 1876-June 21, 1961) actualized in 1943 the Baffin Island wolf subspecies of gray wolves; March 2018 Historical and Present Distributions Map of North American grey wolf subspecies, based upon range map in Edward A. Goldman, The Wolves of North America, vol. II (1944), with most still recognized by Mammal Species of the World, third edition (MSW3; 2005) but without subspecies historically recognized as Canis rufus and with extinct Canis lupus alces as blank due to color mystery of missing pelts and with modified illustrations from St. George Jackson Mivart's Dogs, Jackals, Wolves and Foxes (1890): Mariomassone, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_American_gray_wolf_subspecies_distribution_according_to_Goldman_(1944)_&_MSW3_(2005).png

Baffin Island admits such iconic, signature wildlife as Arctic hares, barren-ground caribou, ground squirrels, lemmings, mice, moose and mountain sheep. Such wildlife allows Baffin Island wolves their protein diets; Nov. 2, 2016, image of Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, eastern Nunavut, northern Canada: Jennifer Latuperisa-Andresen fraumuksch, Public Domain (CC0 1.0), via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stormy_Mountain_Sky_(Unsplash).jpg

Baffin Island wolves ambled taxonomically as gray wolves (Canis lupus, "dog wolf") since 1758. Rudolph Martin Anderson (June 30, 1876-June 21, 1961) announced in 1943 their renaming as Canis lupus manningi, "dog wolf Manning's") for Thomas Henry Manning (Dec. 22, 1911-Nov. 8, 1998); still image of grey wolf (Canis lupus) by Gary Kramer/USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service): Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library @ https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/collection/natdiglib/id/203; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front_view_of_a_resting_Canis_lupus_ssp.jpg

Reginald Innes Pocock (March 4, 1863-Aug. 9, 1947) appreciated the Baffin Island ancestry of Greenland wolves. Greenland wolves thereby availed themselves of the successor name Canis lupus orion ("dog wolf heaven's light") in 1935 to Carl Linnaeus' (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) gray-wolfed Canis lupus of 1758; image of Greenland wolf as draught animal in Stanley P. Young and Edward A. Goldman, The Wolves of North America, vol. I (1944): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wolves_of_North_America_(1944)_Greenland_draught_wolf.jpg

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