Her rediscovery of the Japanese wolf—or at least one of its hybrids—may be a stepping stone to new revelations about how ...

Siebold sent the fur and skull of a Japanese wolf, as well as a “yamainu” (mountain dog). The type specimen’s stand refers to the sample as that of a yamainu to raise a question ...

The Japanese wolf is a subspecies of the gray wolf ... “The specimen in question is a kind of ‘yamainu’ (mountain dog).” There are a number of theories about what “yamainu” means.