page_title: Black wolf
hierarchical_section_title: Black wolf
caption_attribution_description: English: Gray Wolf fur skin (Canis lupus), Mackenzie. Fur skin collection, Bundes-Pelzfachschule, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Deutsch: Wolfsfell (Canis lupus), Mackenzie. Aus der Fellsammlung der ehemaligen Bundes-Pelzfachschule (heute Frankfurter Schule für Bekleidung und Mode, Frankfurt/Main. Gesammelt unter Studiendirektor Ludwig Brauser. Derzeit eingelagert in den Räumen des Senckenbergmuseums, Frankfurt/Main.
context_page_description: A black wolf is a melanistic colour variant of the gray wolf. Black specimens are recorded among red wolves, though the phase is probably now extinct. Genetic research from the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, Los Angeles revealed that wolves with black pelts owe their distinctive coloration to a mutation which occurred in domestic dogs, and was carried to wolves through wolf-dog hybridization. Besides coat and knee colour, they are normal grey wolves.
context_section_description: A black wolf is a melanistic colour variant of the gray wolf (Canis lupus). Black specimens are recorded among red wolves (Canis rufus), though the phase is probably now extinct. Genetic research from the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, Los Angeles revealed that wolves with black pelts owe their distinctive coloration to a mutation which occurred in domestic dogs, and was carried to wolves through wolf-dog hybridization. Besides coat and knee colour, they are normal grey wolves.
caption: Skin of a black coloured wolf taken from the Mackenzie Valley. The function of the black pigment is largely unknown.
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