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Are Arctic wolves scientifically known as snow wolves?

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No. Arctic wolves are sometimes known as Polar wolf, but the scientific name is Canis Arctos.

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Scientifically, Arctic wolves are known as Canis lupus arctos.

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Where are snow wolves located?

There is no species called "snow wolf".Arctic wolves live in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland; they are a subspecies of the Gray Wolf which lives in North America, Europe and Asia.


What eats snow wolfs?

Snow wolves are carnivores and eat meat like all other wolves. They eat smaller snow animals such a rabbits and arctic deer.


What type of animals live in arctic mountains?

wolves and snow leoperds


Do Arctic foxes or Arctic wolves pull you along the snow?

Neither are domesticated and therefore will not act as sled dogs.


Why are arctic wolves white?

Think about where they live. It is in snow and ice which is white. They can hide in the environment.


What are the threats to musk oxen?

Arctic wolves, polar bears, cold, snow, and being separated from the herd.


Where does a snow wolf live?

There is no species called a snow wolf. If you are referring to the Arctic wolf, it is found on Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut) and Ellesmere Island. There is also the tundra wolf that is found on barren grounds of the Arctic Coast region from near Point Barrow eastward toward Hudson Bay and probably northwards to the Arctic Archipelago.


How do Arctic wolves raise their young?

Technically how any other wolf would raise it's young except with snow


Where does snow wolf live?

Arctic or snow wolves live in northern Canada and Alaska. They also populate northern Russia, Norway, Sweden and other Scandinavian regions.


Are white foxes the same as Arctic foxes?

No. The Grey wolf is a wolf reining in forested reigons. It's fur color can range from black, grey, orange, red, silver, white, etc. But the Arctic wolf is a breed that specifically lives in the Arctic, or colder climates.An Arctic wolf is a type of gray wolf, but not all gray wolves are Arctic wolves.


Does an arctic wolf camouflage?

Well it's because the snow is white and the wolves's fur coat is white so the snow and their fur basically just blends in together. White and white! So that's how they camouflage into the snow! =]its fur (white)


Who are the enemies of a Snowy Plover?

Arctic Foxes, arctic wolves, gulls, jaegers, gyrfalcons, and ravens