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From: The natural history and ecology of melanism in red wolf and coyote populations of the southeastern United States – evidence for Gloger’s rule

Fig. 1

A “Black American Wolf”, a nineteenth-century hand-colored lithograph drawn from a Florida specimen [20]. B A melanistic red wolf killed in Oklahoma, May–June 1919. Reverend James O. Arthur photograph collection from the National Museum of the American Indian repository at the Smithsonian Institute. C Melanistic red wolf, taken from Evangeline Parish and exhibited in the Audubon Park Zoo in New Orleans, LA in the late 1920s. Photo featured in The Fur Animals of Louisiana, 1931 by Stanley Clisby Arthur. D A melanistic red wolf in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, 1934. Copyright Tappan Gregory (1886–1961). E Melanistic wolf that weighed 32.2 kg. Shown in the trap in Winn Parish, Louisiana, 1948. Courtesy of the T.E. “Doc” Harris family. F Photo of a large melanistic wolf killed in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, 1949 by R.E. Walters. Photo appeared in The Richland Beacon News, August 20, 1949

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