Apennine Mountains
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The Apennines or Apennine Mountains are a mountain range consisting of parallel smaller chains extending c. 1,200 km the length of peninsular Italy. In the northwest they join the Ligurian Alps at Alt
Corno Grande in Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park, Abruzzo
Aerial view of Apennine Mountains
Western Europe during the Middle Bronze Age: the Apennine culture is in blue.
La Cisa pass
Italian wolf
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The Italian wolf, also known as the Apennine wolf, is a subspecies of the grey wolf native to the Italian Peninsula. It inhabits the Apennine Mountains and the Western Alps, though it is undergoing ex
Apennine Mountains
…parks and, within them, a high diversity of flora and fauna. These mountains are one of the last refuges of the big European predators such as the Italian wolf and the Marsican brown bear, now extinct in the rest of Central Europe. The mountains lend their name to the Apennine Peninsula that forms the major…
C. l. italicus in MNP
Giuseppe Altobello's comparative illustration of the skulls and dentition of C. l. lupus (a) and C. l. italicus (b)
Wolf mandible diagram showing the names and positions of the teeth
Grey wolf killed in Malga Campo Bon (Comelico) on 24 May 1929