Are there wolves in southern Georgia?
The problem is that there are two Georgias.The real is Georgia the country in the Caucas capital Tbilisi and Georgia the American state.Which of this do u mean?
Is the Eastern Timber Wolf extinct?
I have checked many websites. Some say that they are endangered, but still alive. Others say that there are only two species, the red and the gray. I don't know which one to believe. Please help.
Where do Eastern Timber Wolves live, and where have they lived?
The Eastern Timber Wolf (Canis lupus lycaon) current range is isolated in southeastern Canada. Its historic range included southeast Canada and the northeastern US in the New England states westward to the eastern range of the Great Lakes. The Southeastern US is the historic home to the Red Wolf (Canis rufus) which is a seperate species, not just subspecies, altogether. The wolves of the western Great Lakes were originally classified as Canis lupus lycaon but studies showed that these wolves are more properly classified as the Great Plains wolf (Canis lupus nubilus). Recent mtDNA studies of the Eastern Timber Wolf show that it may be a unique and seperate species of the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) and be reclassified as simply Canis lycaon. If this occurs, then the correct toxonomy becomes very important if there is ever to be a reintroduction of the Eastern Timber Wolf into its former range.
Why there are no grey wolves in South America?
It’s just the biogeography of dire wolves vs. gray wolves.Dire wolves did make it into South America. A species called Canis nerhingi was once thought to be a very large South American-clade wild dog, but a multivariate study on many fossil and extant canids, including that species revealed that it was South American dire wolf.Gray wolves, as we know them in North America, did not colonize the mid-latitudes of the continent until 100,000 years ago, and they came from Berginia into North America. Dire wolves evolved in mid-latitude North America, and they couldn’t go north because of the ice sheets, so they went south.
Why did the southern American states ratify the U.S. Constitution even though it allowed for the prohibition of the international slave trade starting in 1808?
They ratified it because the Constitution was a compromise. Popular punditry nowadays tends to treat it as if it were a sacred document received from on high but in fact it was a very practical, ugly, political process that resulted in its creation. Delegates haggled over it for over two months. Even after the fact, two states refused to ratify it until the Bill of Rights was proposed in 1789.Slavery was an issue at the constitutional convention. Many delegates, particularly those from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, wanted no protection for slavery at all in the constitution. Eventually the temporary protection was agreed to as part of the compromise—the clause stating that no one would try and ban slavery before 1808 was put in there to induce a couple of the southern states to ratify the constitution. The year 1808 was 21 years after 1787—twenty-one years was about the longest time the laws in those days allowed for a temporary right to exist (you learn in law school that a property right less than a fee simple couldn't in those days exist for more than 21 years past the end of "a life in existence", this was called a "perpetuity"). Twenty-one years was also the limitation on an action for trespass, after which an occupier of land could claim "adverse possession". So this was a significant period of time in light of eighteenth-century law. Also part of the background was that slavery was considered to be on the decline in the late eighteenth century and no doubt some of the anti-slavery faction hoped that the problem would go away by itself. Unfortunately, after the constitution was ratified, the invention of the cotton "gin" in the 1790s made growing cotton much more profitable and this is generally credited with increasing the need for labor in the south (cotton does not grow much north of Virginia), which in turn fueled a renewed interest in the slave trade.So the thrust of the question is backward—this was a bone thrown to the south, not something being taken away from it. The southern states were interested in union, just as the northern ones were, and they accepted this compromise in light of the situation they had at hand.
Why is it that Mexicans cry wolf when their citizens are mistreated, yet they mistreat immigrants in Mexico?
I agree with you. It saddens me too. They do talk some about it. They just don't make a big deal over it. Yes, this makes me very sad....these people are human beings too. But I think it may have to do with pressure from the USA, I mean somewhere I heard that Mexico is trying to control its borders...if they let other nationalities travel through Mexican territory into US territory, then it looks bad on Mexico. Because many people from Central and South America are aiming to reach U.S. territory.
Are there wolves in Ohio?
In some parts of Ohio there is. But as of the latest ODNR/FWSpopulation study not many. Reports vary but anywhere from 25 to 100. More common are hybrids mixed from wolf dog breeding and wolf coyote breeding. Many of the full breed wolves are merely passing through on their way to states with larger populations. These are usually young males. You will find this is equally true for black bears too. Near the Michigan border the number of sightings have been greater and that plays with the facts that Michigan is a normal home for wolves. Eastern Grey Wolf to be exact. Livestock and game as well as proximity to Michigan are the main factors. Sightings further south suggest the lone wolf theory where one may stay in an area with good hunting and possible breeding stock such as large dogs or coyotes. As the Wolf population grows in the north we may start to see more reports as they will expand territories to get away from other packs territories. Coyotes seem to be the main predator throughout ohio at present but there have been reports of possible cougar/mountain lion kills in some areas but these are few and not substantiated as of yet. I have myself ran across 2 black bears in recent years mushroom hunting in southwest Ohio in the spring but ODNR says they are just passing thru. There are some living in Southeast Ohio and Eastern Ohio coming out of KY, West VA. And Penn. but the numbers are low. Copperhead snakes, Eastern Diamondbacks and Timber Rattlesnakes are on the rise here faster than anything else. Have to judge for yourself which is a greater threat.