#finnish wolves

[wilkpreriowy]

A blond Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus) in eastern Finland, near the Russian border.

Photos [1, 2] © André Riis Ebbesen

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Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus)

Photo © Tonny Janglöv

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Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus)

Photograph by Jari Peltomäki [source]

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Did you notice that some wolves in Finland are so creamy in color? They're so beautiful when it comes to their fur color. Is it just in Finland that wolves have such creamy fur? I wonder why. In Europe, wolves are mostly various shades of grey. Iberian Wolves are beautifully brownish in color. But these cream wolves in Finland are just gorgeous.

Yes! I love it so so much. It’s almost golden. The pictures of wolves that had that particular colour I came across were all shot in Finland. 

I couldn’t answer your question, so I did a little research. There’s no scientific studies being done on this subject, but I found this blog post stating the possibility that this yellow coloration might has its origin in domestic dogs, or that the gene flow between similarly coloured spitz breed dogs and Finnish wolves has worked both ways, or that maybe they are just a local unique mutation. They also explain a theory about these yellow Finnish wolves representing a sort of throwback to the ancestral European wolf population that gave rise to domestic dogs, suggesting that the majority of the ancient European wolves were perhaps golden in colour.

Here’s some more pictures of them I posted on WolvesWolves, and here is a collection of some more pictures