Japanese Wolf Specimen from the Chichibu Mountains (Skull)
秩父山地のニホンオオカミ標本 頭骨 · Chichibusanchinonihonookamihyouhon Toukotsu
Photo: Momotarou2012 / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons
- Designated by
- Prefectural / Natural Monument
- Designation type
- Species
- Designated on
- March 14, 2025
- Location
- 埼玉県比企郡ときがわ町
- Prefectures
- Saitama
- Scientific name
- Canis lupus hodophilax
About the Japanese Wolf (specimens)
The Japanese wolf was a small wolf once native to Japan, thought to have gone extinct in the early twentieth century. The designated items are preserved specimens, a pelt and skulls, obtained in the Chichibu Mountains of Saitama. Few real specimens exist anywhere, making them precious evidence of an extinct native animal.
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The designated site is in 埼玉県比企郡ときがわ町.
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