An Indian grey wolf that was recently killed by farmers in Bangladesh, where the carnivore was believed to have been wiped out eight decades ago, could have been the one that was caught on camera in a part of the Sundarbans in West Bengal two years ago.
The grey wolf ( Canis lupus pallipes ) was killed in the first week of June by farmers near the Bangladesh part of the Sundarbans because it had attacked their livestock.
In April 2017, a wildlife photographer had shot a photograph of a lone wolf inthe Indian part of the Sundarbans.
“It is possible that the one that got killed in Bangladesh is the same wolf spotted in West Bengal two years ago, as both individuals were male,” Yadvendradev V. Jhala of the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) told The Hindu .
Zoologists collected DNA samples from the animal to confirm it as a grey wolf.
