Mammalia · Carnivora
Gray Wolf
Canis lupus
Highly social pack-hunting apex canid roaming boreal forests, taiga, tundra, and temperate scrublands wherever cold-adapted ungulate herds roam.
- Realm
- Terrestrial
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1310 licence-filtered records across 326 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (23)
- Australian Wildlife Conservancy Surveys (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Data collected on citizen science web portal www.ornitho.cat (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF MammalNet (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.es (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- https://doi.org/10.15468/sbszsz (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Mammals – Camera Trap Surveys – Spain – 2014–2026 – MOMAT Project (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Mammals – Point Surveys – Spain – 2023–2025 – MOMAT Project (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Monitoreo de biodiversidad utilizando cámaras trampa en la Estructura Ecológica Principal de Santiago de Cali (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- MUNTJAC_ANTWERP - Camera trap observations of Chinese muntjac in forested areas near Antwerp (Belgium) (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Observations.be - Non-native species occurrences in Wallonia, Belgium (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Skandobs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Terry Reis Incidental Records (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)