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==The Indian Wolf==
'''''Adapted from Wikipedia'''''
[[File:Wolf Islamabad Pakistan.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Indian Wolf]]
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! ''Discussed species''
| ''[[Canis lupus]]'', [[Indian Wolf]], भेड़िया
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!'' Distribution''
| Western [[India]], [[Pakistan]], Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and southern Israel
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! ''IUCN Status''
| [[Endangered]]<ref>[http://www.wolves.animalcorner.co.uk/wolf_subspecies.html Wolf Corner - Sub Species of the Wolf] Accessdate=August 19, 2006</ref>. Only ~1000 wolves present<ref name="WOLVES">{{cite book | author= L. David Mech & Luigi Boitani | url = | title=Wolves: Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation | year=2001 | pages= 448 | id= ISBN 0226516962 }}</ref>.
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Indian wolves, along with Arabian and Tibetan wolves, are among the wolf subspecies generally suspected to have been the main ancestors of [[w:domestic dog|domestic dogs]]<ref name="dog">[http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/zoology/members/dayan_files/articles/Early_domesticated.pdf ''Early Domesticated Dogs of the Near East'' by Tamar Dayan, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University]</ref>. ALl of us remember [[w:Mowgli|Mowgli]] and his wolf-brothers, right? Indian wolves take a central role in [[w:Rudyard Kipling|Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[w:The Jungle Book|The Jungle Book]]s'', in which a pack in the [[w:Seoni (Madhya Pradesh)|Sioni]] area adopts Mowgli and teaches him how to survive in the jungle whilst protecting him from the [[w:tiger|tiger]] [[w:Shere Khan|Shere Khan]] and the marauding [[w:dhole|dhole]].

Indian wolves tend to brush more with civilization, a behavior that may have contributed to their domestication as dogs and also something that has helped push them towards extinction. Indian wolves have a history of preying on children, a phenomenon called "child-lifting". In India, Hindus traditionally considered the hunting of wolves, even dangerous ones as [[w:taboo|taboo]], for fear of causing a bad harvest. The [[w:Santals|Santals]] however considered them fair game, as with every other forest dwelling animal.<ref name="Children">{{cite book | author = Maclean, Charles | title = The Wolf Children| year = 1980 | isbn = 0140050531 | page = 336}}</ref> During [[w:British India|British rule in India]], wolves were not considered game species, and were killed primarily in response to them attacking game herds, livestock and people. Overall, it is thought that up to 100,000 wolves were killed in British India between 1871-1916<ref name="Asia">{{cite book | author = Knight, John | title = Wildlife in Asia: Cultural Perspectives | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-0-7007-1332-5 | page = 280 }}</ref>.

The depiction of wolves in Indian mythology as wily, conspiring, wicked creatures also probably contributed to their reducing numbers. In the ''[[w:Rig Veda|Rig Veda]]'', Rijrsava is blinded by his father as punishment for having given 101 of his family's sheep to a she-wolf, who in turn prays to the [[w:Ashvins|Ashvins]] to restore his sight<ref name="murthy">''Mythical animals in Indian art'' by K. Krishna Murthy, published by Abhinav Publications, 1985, ISBN 0391032879</ref>. In Mahabharata, [[w:Bhima|Bhima]], the voracious son of the god [[w:Vayu|Vayu]], is described as ''Vrikodara'', meaning "wolf-stomached".<ref>''Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic'' by W. J. Wilkins, published Kessinger Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0766188817</ref>. In the ''[[w:Harivamsa|Harivamsa]]'', [[w:Krishna|Krishna]], in order to convince the people of [[w:Vraja|Vraja]] to migrate to [[w:Vrindavan|Vrindavan]], creates hundreds of wolves from his hairs, which frighten the inhabitants of Vraja into making the journey.<ref>''The Vishńu Puráńa: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition'' by Horace Hayman Wilson, Fitzedward Hall, published by Trubner, 1868</ref>.

Wolves find frequent mention in many mythical stories around the world reminding us of the fact that these creatures once roamed vast swathes of land in Europe and Asia. For example, The [[w:Bible|Bible]] contains thirteen references to wolves, which are usually used as metaphors for greed and destructiveness<ref name="BOTF">{{cite book | author= Bright, Michael | title=Beasts of the Field: The Revealing Natural History of Animals in the Bible | year=2006 | isbn=1861058314 | page= 346 }}</ref>.

'''''For a complete review of such stories, please check [[w:Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology|Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology]] article on Wikipedia'''''.

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