Hokkaido wolf

[ho-kahy-doh woolf]

noun

plural

Hokkaido wolves 

1. a wolf, Canis lupus hattai, one of two subspecies of gray wolf indigenous to the Japanese archipelago, but extinct since the mid-20th century, believed to have last survived on the Russian island of Sakhalin.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hokkaido wolf¹

First recorded in 1930–35