plural lobos
: gray wolf
Once a year, the Biology Undergraduate Society (BUGS) creates an opportunity for students to meet live lobos.—
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UNM NewsroomMembers of the Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team and their equally dedicated colleagues at the Endangered Wolf Center are to be congratulated for successfully placing a total of eight tiny lobo puppies into wild dens.—Jean C. Ossorio
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The Mexican wolf, or lobo, is the smallest subspecies of gray wolf in North America, weighing between 50-80 pounds with a characteristic buff, gray, rust and black fur coat.
—Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 24 July 2025
Wolf advocates celebrated the journey, saying true recovery can never occur until lobos are allowed to expand their range.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2025
Every Global Academy of Phoenix teacher wore a mask with the school's logo on it — a lobo, or a wolf — and their name.
—Lily Altavena, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2020
The gray wolf that made headlines in 2011 for becoming the first lobo in nearly a century to lope in California’s wilderness is presumed dead.
—Suzanne Espinosa Solis, SFChronicle.com, 15 Apr. 2020
A woman sitting in front of him expressed indignation that one of the scenes featured a bison that had become trapped in ice and slowly dying from hypothermia before it was feasted upon by lobos.
—National Geographic, 24 May 2016
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Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 24 July 2025
Wolf advocates celebrated the journey, saying true recovery can never occur until lobos are allowed to expand their range.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2025
Every Global Academy of Phoenix teacher wore a mask with the school's logo on it — a lobo, or a wolf — and their name.
—Lily Altavena, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2020
The gray wolf that made headlines in 2011 for becoming the first lobo in nearly a century to lope in California’s wilderness is presumed dead.
—Suzanne Espinosa Solis, SFChronicle.com, 15 Apr. 2020
A woman sitting in front of him expressed indignation that one of the scenes featured a bison that had become trapped in ice and slowly dying from hypothermia before it was feasted upon by lobos.
—National Geographic, 24 May 2016
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“Lobo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lobo. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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