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Why are black wolves black?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Well, how about you ask yourself this question first? Why is your hair color the color it is?

The answer is simple. Genetics.

It's quite possible that the reason you're hair is, for example, black is because your mom or dad have black hair or carry the trait for black hair in their DNA.

It's possible that the black, I can imagine, timber wolf is black is because one or both of its parents had or carried a dominant trait for black fur.

Another reason black wolves are black is because all wolves belong to the same family of canines, despite the species. Arctic wolves are born black, they later on loose their black fur as they mature into white wolves better camouflaged in the white arctic snow. It's possible that a pack of arctic wolves migrated into the woodlands and later on evolved into timber wolves, but the pups began keeping their black or grayish coats seeing as how in their new forest environment this color of fur would help them hunt and hide better.

My final reason is that, there are rare cases where the opposite of albinism occurs and instead of an animal having loss of pigment and ending up with white fur, they have way too much color pigment and end up with dark black fur.

I hope that this helped you with your question. ^_^ and I hope you keep loving wolves just as much as I do.

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