timber wolf

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The timber wolf, the bison and the eland all experienced T. R.’s dead aim, although the giant polar bear rug in the otherwise feminine drawing room came courtesy of Robert Peary, the Arctic explorer.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2015

Fans and students sold 25-cent shares and collected enough money to buy yet another timber wolf in 1966.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2014

It was an American timber wolf named Rugby, filmed in a mock Olympic Village hallway in the United States by the comedian Jimmy Kimmel.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2014

Even after the Department of the Interior placed the Eastern timber wolf on the endangered species list in 1973, poaching continued at the rate of about 250 animals a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

From far back in the flinty hills, the long, lonesome howl of a timber wolf floated down in the silent night.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls